[USML Announce] I'm Out

[Brad Jansen]

Yes, I can speak to having shed plenty of pounds of keepers this year.....

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:12 PM, JOHN FRUIT <jtfruit at msn.com> wrote:

> Agreed with Rich, Jim and Doug-  all owners are fully capable of hashing
> out the best deals for their respective teams -  I also have raised an
> occasional eyebrow at league trades when I thought it wasn't fair value for
> one team or another - perhaps a little chiding transpires and then that's
> it.
> As for last week's trades with Rich and Mark-  hopefully everyone here
> realizes all I was doing was playing GM of the Brats and maximizing
> long-term value.  Others in the league know I negotiated fairly and at
> length, and simply took what I felt was the best deal on the table.
>  Nothing that hasn't been done year after year in this league as normal
> business  -  I'm still a bit confounded as to what all the hubbub is about.
>
> It is hard to win this league- as these last few trades today show, teams
> that are in it to win it many times have to take drastic measures and
> mortgage some of the future.  As I told Andy, it's almost a
> responsibility of those bringing up the rear to extract a pound of flesh
> from the leaders, lest these same teams are looking up in the standings
> again next year.
>
>
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