Re: numbers game

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

>From: bird <bird@pixi.com>
>What I'd like to know more about is Greg Minor's $1.4mil salary.  I
>was under the impression that we could _add_ this salary to an
>available exception (the 1.1mil and 2.2mil ones), or to salaries in a free 
>agent or sign-and-trade deal.  Maybe the latter two were valid
>only if we were under the cap, but I thought we could at least we
>could add it to the exceptions?  So why didn't we apply for it?  Even if 
>it's only a standalone option (i.e. we can only offer some guy
>1.4mil to sign with us), I would've thought it would have been worth
>it.  I hope the Celt's braintrust was working on something pretty
>freaking important to not consider doing this.

This is a very good point.  If a free agent is looking at 1.1m from everyone 
else, offering 1.4 would probably make the difference.  Even if they didn't 
want to use *another* exception, this one would be good to have *instead of* 
the 1.1.

Jim
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