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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

(Future GM) Antonetti on Hafner

By Tangotiger, 04:25 PM

A simply fantastic interview by Blogger Jay.  Antonetti sounds like the executive version of Brian Bannister.

So then, would it be fair to say that, with the management team currently in place, if faced with the exact same set of circumstances again, you go ahead and sign that same contract?

- With the information we had at that point? Yeah. Yep. I think that’s fair to say.

So from the day you signed the contract until now, a season and a half later, realistically, the contract that that player could command on the market has gone down precipitously, and yet you would look back at that and say, “There’s nothing about that experience that would make us change our process at all.”

- With the information we had at point, no. Yes, I would say that. I would say that’s correct. We are comfortable with the process we had to arrive at that decision.

I’m trying to get my head around your comfort.

- You’re never, ever going to get certainty, there’s never certainty.

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