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Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers
I'm not saying they go for free, but what you're talking about is not a firesale. Just "talking trade." You know, what goes on all the time. Everybody in the league is open to trade their players if they get offers that benifit them. That's what you were doing. When teams are out of it and trade off their best player for the best offer, that's a fire sale. You turned down the best offer, and in my estimation asked for the moon, and ended up not traded. Anyway you slice it, that is no fire sale.
I'm not saying you're wrong for not trading him, I'm just saying you're wrong for calling whatever it was you were doing a fire sale.
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So let me gets this straight, just for future reference. When I use the term fire sale that implies I will let them go no matter what to the best offer?
From my POV a fire sale describes trading away most if not all of the estbalished players on a team for rookies, non established players, and/or draft picks.
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In professional sports, a fire sale occurs when a team ships many of its veteran players to other teams for less expensive players, usually for financial reasons. The term is generally thought of as separate from merely "rebuilding", because during rebuilding, teams often obtain players who are in the major leagues already or who are close to being major-league-ready. On the other hand, trades in a fire sale often result in a team receiving draft picks and prospects who have little to no major-league experience in their sport. The term comes from the perception that the team is trying to get rid of all its players.
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So was I wrong in using the term fire sale? I don't think so. No where in that definition does it state that I MUST let them go in order for it to be a fire sale. Even then, I correctly used the term fire sale as (1) I was willing to trade LT, Steve Smith, Driver, Winslow (my core) for (2) draft picks or young rookies. Had I gotten adequate offers... it would have been a fire sale as I would have traded most of my team away for draft picks or players on rookie contracts.
So did I use the term wrong? No. Did I use it in a misleading way? No. I really did ATTEMPT a fire sale. I had the mind set that if someone had offered me a 1st rounder those guys would have been gone, but nothing materialized so the fire sale was not completed.