How To Fuck Yourself

[Personnel Representative]

Every season, I get this type of stuff in my inbox for extensions.

General Contract Negotiation from team 1
"____ should stay for hometown discount, we drafted him 8 years ago, etc"

PR accepts.


General Contract negotiation from a different team, possibly the next season
"Well, _____ makes 6M and there is no way I am paying my guy more than that"


Do you know what the result of this combination is?

PEOPLE ASK FOR MORE MONEY LEAGUE WIDE!!!

I get annoyed with Contract negotiation number 2 (cause it happens EVERY season) and I stop doing ANY home town discounts. PLUS, i get A LOT more strict with how far down I will negotiate a contract for a producing forward.

If you are going to cite precedent when you are negotiating, I have to set it. And if a guy produces, i have to set it HIGH.

Moral: STOP FUCKING YOURSELVES OVER YOU FOOLS!

[Toronto Maple Leafs]

Phil Kessel is 7M fuck every one and their problems.

[Personnel Representative]

That's what you get for a) offering high, b) not negotiating AT ALL, and c) being a chump.

[Toronto Maple Leafs]

You missed the point entirely. I paid Kessel what I felt was fair and deserving for his play. People who want to compare to other contracts I think is funny. Negotiate for your own team and its own performance and if the player doesn't fit in, trade him.

[Personnel Representative]

Mar 26, 2012 13:51:11 GMT -5 Toronto Maple Leafs said:

You missed the point entirely. I paid Kessel what I felt was fair and deserving for his play. People who want to compare to other contracts I think is funny. Negotiate for your own team and its own performance and if the player doesn't fit in, trade him.

For true!