[Hammock Parties]

PIOLI: “Well, here’s what you do, as you’re getting ready to go on the clock, you have a group of players that you’re looking at, you have an idea of the player that you want to pick but then you have this full group of players and you also have in the back of your mind that you’re going to have 10 minutes generally to field calls and potentially make another trade. When we’re sitting there waiting, we knew the player we wanted to pick, we were watching the clock go down, we’re listening to our people in New York and we hear them tell us that Baltimore passed then in that time you have to start figuring out if you’re going to turn in the card immediately, are you going to listen to trades, is the opportunity to make sure that team isn’t going to jump back and hand in their card and it might be the player that you want and then your phone is ringing, which our phone was ringing from two separate teams that wanted to make trades so we were sitting there at the 27 that all a sudden became 26, we’re getting trade offers, we’re also getting the player on the phone at the same time, because one of the trick I’ve learned is be careful about how soon you get a player on the phone because if you get him on too early and another team finds out about it they may make a trade to jump ahead of you. All that is kind of unfolding at one, we’ve got the player on the phone, we turn in the pick and decided not to do the other trades and we had some pretty good offers but we knew we wanted this player. It was interesting. I’m not sure I’ve been through a situation like that. The good part is the entire room was calm, we had to make sure we had Jonathan on the phone and he wasn’t being talked to by Baltimore or someone else and then we kind of watched, trying to figure out who Joe Bussert was yelling at on the telephone.”

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