Post#4 » by Ribalding » Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:56 am
What a mouth-breathing (Please Use More Appropriate Word).
Here's an open letter for Mr. Arenas (guaranteed to have the exact same impact as Auburn's rambling, ManLove Myspace Fanboy Reach-around letter).
Hey Gilbert,
You're exactly right.
You shouldn't have to pay somebody 4% of your hard-earned money to negotiate your contract. Screw that, baby. It's not that complicated, after all. Just ask Master P. He got Ricky that smokin' deal with the Saints, after all. He can tell you. You don't need an agent. They only cost you money.
You don't even need an attorney. "Bad faith" schmad faith. You can do it yourself. Lawyers don't know anything about contracts or market trends or plausible deniability or Collective Bargaining Agreements. They just go 'round with their fancy degrees and charge people to do stuff they could've done for themselves. Everybody knows that.
And sure, I'll grant you: an attorney could, for far less than 1%, oversee the negotiations and the final contract. But why let him, you know? Why let him take .009% to save you 90%? You're not gonna get hurt. You're not gonna get suspended. You're definitely not gonna get a DUI after leaving a strip club. You're not gonna need all that mumbo jumbo. It's cool, man. (And if anything bad did happen, that multi-national corporation would totally be good to you, right?) Just roll up in that owner's office with some attitude. They'll get the picture.
Why? Because ignorance is bliss.
Ask Ricky Williams.