Re: Thank you, Boston Sports Guy

[Bob McChesney <rwmcches@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the compliment.

Who knows what else we might have gotten for JJ and our no. 1 pick. But we 
could he gotten something. At the very least we could have gotten future 
no. 1 picks if Wallace determined that the 2002 draft was so bad or that JJ 
has no future. We coudl have gotten something.

As it is, all we have to show is Tony Delk, and the price of Delk is that 
we lose Strickland, who is cheaper than Delk and close to his equal if not 
superior. So we have jack squat to show for two no. 1 picks.

Let me put it this way, so maybe you will understand the elementary logic: 
Do you think if an NBA GM contacted Pheonix today and said "Hey, Phoenix 
GM, Mr. David A. Wickerham says that Joe Johnson and Casey Jacobsen have no 
market value. Will you please give their contracts to us?" the Phoenix GM 
would say "yes"? No, he would say "F**k off, you wanker."

Look, JJ and Jacobsen many never pan out, but there is the chance they 
will. That is why they have value. We torched that value for nothing.



At 10:40 AM 07/24/2002 -0400, David A Wickerham wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Bob McChesney wrote:
>
> > The Rogers trade cost us two no. 1 picks for a guy who played for us for
> > three months. That is stupid. Even if Joe Johnson and Casey Jacobsen never
> > pan out, we could have gotten more.
>
>
>Sorry Bob, but that statement is simply stupid.  What else do you think
>we
>were offered for Johnson and a late first rounder?
>
>
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>           Dave Wickerham
>           aw623@freenet.buffalo.edu
>           Saratoga Springs, NY

Robert W. McChesney
Your Man in Urbana
Institute of Communications Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
www.robertmcchesney.com