Re: the fortson trade

[Francis Hsu <francis@ai.mit.edu>]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:34:53PM -0400, Mark Estepp wrote:
> Peter May wrote in TSN:
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> The problem: They don't want him back, but they also
> don't want anything back for him. Collective bargaining
> agreement rules make such a situation unnerving and hard
> to deal with.
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> If May's statement is correct, and what the C's wanted in return was 
> essentially nothing, then I would say they got what they wanted.

It seems like his statement is not correct.  Otherwise, despite the CBA,
the solution would have been about as simple as it gets:  do nothing.

Of course, you could then argue that maybe they wanted nothing in
return, but also wanted to make sure Miami and NY got nothing.

Francis