Elias on contract extensions

[Sports Guy]

 

[Can_of_corn]

Nice to see they won't be making any unreasonable attempts to examine ways to keep them.

 

[Aristotelian]

4 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Nice to see they won't be making any unreasonable attempts to examine ways to keep them.

 

Or reasonable attempts that would be against the best interest of the team.

[Moose Milligan]

I’m not holding my breath. 

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

Or reasonable attempts that would be against the best interest of the team.

I think we all just assumed that...

[SteveA]

11 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

 

Double hedge:

1) "responsible attempt" 

2) IF it is in the best interests of building the team

Both obviously true and impossible to find fault with as stated, but both also obviously deliberately inserted in the sentence as hedges to explain, after the fact, why we failed to extend any of our younger players beyond their original team control period.   

Either there are stronger fiscal restraints still in place than people would like to believe, or else Elias really doesn't believe extending team talent and buying free agent years is the way to go, even though lots of the other cool kids have been doing it, including Houston with Altuve, Tampa, Cleveland, Philly, and other franchises.

[Sports Guy]

7 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Double hedge:

1) "responsible attempt" 

2) IF it is in the best interests of building the team

Both obviously true and impossible to find fault with as stated, but both also obviously deliberately inserted in the sentence as hedges to explain, after the fact, why we failed to extend any of our younger players beyond their original team control period.   

Either there are stronger fiscal restraints still in place than people would like to believe, or else Elias really doesn't believe extending team talent and buying free agent years is the way to go, even though lots of the other cool kids have been doing it, including Houston with Altuve, Tampa, Cleveland, Philly, and other franchises.

Or it’s just Gm speak and means nothing at all.

[DirtyBird]

10 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I’m not holding my breath. 

That’s unfortunate 

[Moose Milligan]

Just now, DirtyBird said:

That’s unfortunate 

Hilarious! 

[DirtyBird]

2 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Or it’s just Gm speak and means nothing at all.

This is funny, since you started the thread about meaningless GM speak.

[Sports Guy]

1 minute ago, DirtyBird said:

This is funny, since you started the thread about meaningless GM speak.

It’s info being put out by the GM about the team that this message board covers. I would assume you are have enough intelligence somewhere in there to understand why it would be posted and discussed.

[DirtyBird]

Just now, Sports Guy said:

It’s info being put out by the GM about the team that this message board covers. I would assume you are have enough intelligence somewhere in there to understand why it would be posted and discussed.

Sure. It’s still meaningless at this point in the offseason. You know that. And you knew someone would try to analyze it. And you knew you would then tell them it is meaningless GM speak.

[oriole]

Coming out and saying “we’re going to do everything we can to keep these players even if it means going over what they’re actually worth” is probably a bad idea. It’s also a bad idea to say something like, “we’re not interested in these players once they’re expensive”.

[Sports Guy]

9 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

Sure. It’s still meaningless at this point in the offseason. You know that. And you knew someone would try to analyze it. And you knew you would then tell them it is meaningless GM speak.

I didn’t say it was GM speak. I offered it as another possibility to what Steve said.

[Spy Fox]

How does that compare to what he said about extensions pre-Rubenstein? That's where some insight could be had, if there is any difference. But as far as I recall it was pretty similar.