Palmtana wrote:willmurr24 wrote:.....This is my way of saying Riley Green can be traded.
That won't be happening. Hopefully promoted though.
So, voices are being heard, and far be it from me to turn down a platform to get on a soap box.
There is a view by some Commissioners that the rules are the rules, and that you mess up, that's on you. End of story. As an attorney I feel this attractive, as very few things in life are white and black, and when there can be order and predictability, that is a good thing. I call this the TS Philosophy on Strat, aka "Tough Shit".
However, much as Ebeneezer Scrooge had the opportunity to be visited by the three ghosts on Christmas Eve, I have recently been involved in another league where the TS rule was applied to me. It cost me, I think quite unfairly, a third round FA pick which is critical as it is a "no prospect" league, making those first rounds critical. There are complications that would identify this league if I went into specifics and I have no desire to bad mouth another Commissioner publically, so I'll just avoid the details, but fair to say it wasn't entirely my fault. I offered a reasonable solution to the Commissioner (give me a 15th round pick so I can make my roster legal and a compensatory 3rd rd pick in the next years draft, as now my season is tanked, so that's my punishment, but allow me to recapture the value that I lost through several mis-steps of others). I was told "if I did that the rest of the league would be upset, so no". Not even a compromise offer. In other words, TS.
I am considering dropping that league because of that. A commissioner leads, and should do the right thing based on the equities of the situation. Follow the league rules, but when the rules are silent, do what's in the best interest of the league and what's, most importantly, fair.
So all that being said, as a TS traditionalist, I don't want to lose Bob in the league over a slight and defer to our wise and gracious Commisssioner to make an ultimate determination.
Soap box now available for others, as I step down from it.