re: No such thing as an “opt out”

We actually had a guy opt out back in 1988 when I was in high school. I was a Sophomore and , of course, the guy why opted out was a Senior. He was our best player, or had been the three previous years. He was really good, but was having by his standards a pretty bad Senior season. Once we were eliminated from making the playoffs he opted out stating he wasn't going to risk injury playing with this shitty team. I'm glad he did because I got bumped from 5th to his 3rd spot in the order and caught fire those last five games. Anyway, we called him for what he was which was a quitter. He ended up getting cut from the local JUCO team and never played again.