[Burt the Butcher]

Originally Posted by Royal Hawaiian Opihi

Chuck, thanks for your honesty. That actually makes it more difficult. As you'll come to know, I'm a spirit-of-the-rules kind of guy, not a letter-of-the-rules kind of Commish. I'm also a guy who likes to give folks the benefit of the doubt, especially when they're new to the league. I know how difficult it is to catch up with ALL of the rules, regulations & practices of the Frenzy.

You mention that "we all saw" the invalid bid. In all honesty, I didn't. I completely missed it, otherwise I would have called it out. So I assumed that you didn't want to bid higher than what Nate had bid, end of story. Now you say that you would have bid higher, but you were hoping to have the player awarded as sold to you at a lower price. In RFA-ville, that's actually working against you, my friend. Owners who tender their RFAs want to keep them at the lowest possible price. So it would make me MORE inclined to match than if the bidding was allowed to continue.

Having said that, I'm going to, once again, back out of ruling here, as Foster is my dog in this fight. SO... now that we know what the intents were here, I put it back in Burt & Pat's corner. I will abide by whatever they decide.

Once more, guys... with feeling!?!

Let the bidding continue since this involves new owner, with the understanding that any bid increasing the previous bid, is implied to be a minimum valid bump from this point forward. The rule already implies this, so I think good idea to make it clear.