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Originally Posted by Pestilence
Potential. But $76 priced me out.
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It had nothing to do with potential for me - I had an immediate need. Conte sucks.
I hate hate HATE the contract and the bidding war. You and I were the only two guys bidding on him, had either one of us pulled the chute at 46, that's where he'd have stayed.
The only defense I have for myself is that he wasn't my primary target so I back-burnered him until I got the guy I
really wanted in Jerry Hughes (still surprised there wasn't more interest in that guy). I made sure my Hughes bid would go final before Iloka's bidding expired. That's why I threw a couple of $1 bids in there; to milk that bidding process long enough to get Hughes posted and purchased.
Once that happened I had a roster at 53 men and I wasn't going to be able to win the Thomas sweepstakes. Signing another 5 guys with the money didn't do me any good; it needed to go to one guy at the position I most needed help at. That ended up being FS.
My alternative was to bank it at a 50% discount for next season. At that point I'd be spending 1/2 of it on a pure tax penalty. So the 'true' cost of Iloka was really just the 38 I could've carried into 2014. !@#$ it - I'm gonna spend it instead.