NFL Muzzles Owners with Fine threat!

[maverick4]

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I don't understand what the big deal is.

A big negotiation is going to take place, and they want to keep it as quiet as possible so the media doesn't print stories or to show disunity among them. It is standard negotiating practice. What's the big deal here? This makes perfect sense.

JR4, imagine if Theo Epstein was in negotiations with another GM for a trade. He would obviously tell everyone in his organization to keep it quiet until it was done (not saying it happens, but they try). Or, imagine Jack Welch trying to buy HoneyWell when he was still at GE. I'm sure Welch wanted negotiations to be kept confidential until they were finished.

As for your supposed contradictory statements, it's not contradictory to say that businessmen naturally want to extract as much money as possible, but that this is not a main issue in the negotiations.

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[JoeSixPat]

I don't understand what the big deal is.

JR4, imagine if Theo Epstein was in negotiations with another GM for a trade...

Or, hypothetically, imagine if Theo Epstein were involved in contract negotiations with the team ownership, and Larry Luchino decided that he wanted to share details of the negotiations with the media even though both sides had agreed not to.

Would this help or hurt negotiations? Do you think it might cause one party to end negotiations and quit the team in disgust?

Hypothetically speaking of course - this would NEVER happen because clearly public negotiations HELP resolve issues rather than HURT!

In the future I would expect the Red Sox ownership to threaten Luchino with a $500,000 fine if he ever DID leak information to the press in the future.

Hypothetically that is.