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Originally Posted by kirant
This kind of reminds me of Ian White's 2,999,995 million dollar contract. I still don't know why they took 5 dollars off. Was White offering to pay for coffee?
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Originally Posted by neo45
Yes, Sutter said it was a status and culture thing that Ian White wasn't a 3 mil per year guy.
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Originally Posted by Five-hole
What a ridiculous, Sutterish thing to do.
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I think this was a Feaster thing. He was in charge of the arbitration, but Sutter was still his boss at the time.
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"They felt very strongly the number had to have a three at the beginning and we felt very strongly it shouldn't have a three," said assistant GM Jay Feaster. "And the number -- where we ended up -- was within the range, that we did an internal analysis on, we felt the arbitrator could come down with."
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