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re: LSU Baseball Signing Deadline less than 3 hours - 11pm/C!!!!!!
Posted on 8/15/11 at 2:17 pm to Sasquatch Smash
Posted on 8/15/11 at 2:17 pm to Sasquatch Smash
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The Dodgers don't even have Dodgers money...right?
thats what everyone thought until they pulled that offer out their arse
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Posted on 8/15/11 at 2:18 pm to Lester Earl
That has really gotten to me ever since they filed for bankruptcy. They overpaid out the arse for a pitcher before filing for bankruptcy, how unlucky could lsu be?
Posted on 8/15/11 at 2:21 pm to LsuTool
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I really don't understand why people say this.
He got offered over 5 Million. Was he suppose to turn that down?
I am not mad at him but I am angry with how he did it. He was NEVER coming to LSU. He just used us to get himself a better offer.
I agree that our pitching was still solid without him but it still hurt nonetheless. Thanks to the Dodgers offering him enough money to make him a top 10 in relation to contract dollars. He made more than 6 of the top 10 drafted.
Posted on 8/15/11 at 2:23 pm to AstroTiger
Can someone sticky this thread now that Astrotiger has given us the official list of drafted players and if they are signed or not??
TIA
TIA
Posted on 8/15/11 at 2:23 pm to tadelatt
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He was NEVER coming to LSU. He just used us to get himself a better offer.
well, he was practicing with the football team. I would say there was at least a chance he was coming to LSU
Posted on 8/15/11 at 2:27 pm to Lester Earl
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well, he was practicing with the football team. I would say there was at least a chance he was coming to LSU
No. He went all out to make the Dodgers THINK he was serious about coming to LSU. He sold the idea that he was not going to sign unless a ridiculous offer showed up...and it did! lol
Posted on 8/15/11 at 2:31 pm to tadelatt
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No. He went all out to make the Dodgers THINK he was serious about coming to LSU. He sold the idea that he was not going to sign unless a ridiculous offer showed up...and it did! lol
Clearly you know him personally so we should all shutup and listen.
amiright?
Posted on 8/15/11 at 2:31 pm to tadelatt
quote:Wrong
No. He went all out to make the Dodgers THINK he was serious about coming to LSU. He sold the idea that he was not going to sign unless a ridiculous offer showed up...and it did! lol
Posted on 8/15/11 at 2:33 pm to tadelatt
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He sold the idea that he was not going to sign unless a ridiculous offer showed up
How many guys have turned down 5 Million to go to college?
Posted on 8/15/11 at 2:36 pm to tadelatt
quote:You're an idiot.
No. He went all out to make the Dodgers THINK he was serious about coming to LSU. He sold the idea that he was not going to sign unless a ridiculous offer showed up...and it did! lol
Posted on 8/15/11 at 2:36 pm to tadelatt
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I am not mad at him but I am angry with how he did it. He was NEVER coming to LSU. He just used us to get himself a better offer.
If you're the Dodgers, I don't think there's any way you just throw a $5 million signing bonus at a kid without having some kind of negotiations w/ the kid and/or his family.
With that, while I don't blame Zach Lee for taking that kind of jack, I do think it was kind of a dick move for him to raise the stakes w/ the Dodgers by coming to fall camp w/ the football team.
Posted on 8/15/11 at 3:03 pm to LsuTool
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How many guys have turned down 5 Million to go to college?
None but I am not arguing that point. I am stating what happened was a douche move.
You can all hate me and call me names but the fact remains, he played LSU. He used the name to get himself more money.
I dont need to know him personally to understand the thinking behind what he did.
Posted on 8/15/11 at 3:11 pm to tadelatt
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He went all out to make the Dodgers THINK he was serious about coming to LSU. He sold the idea that he was not going to sign unless a ridiculous offer showed up...and it did! lol
what if that offer never showed up?
Posted on 8/15/11 at 3:11 pm to tadelatt
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I dont need to know him personally to understand the thinking behind what he did.
According to your way of thinking, every kid that signs with LSU but leaves for the MLB draft is a douche and only used LSU for leverage.
You see how dumb that is?
If the kid left for a million, I can understand you saying he wasnt coming anyway. Why do you think they offered him so much money? It's because he wasn't gonna sign for anything less than that. So basically, if they offered him 3 Million he would have said, no thanks, I'm a tiger. That sound like a douche to you?
This post was edited on 8/15/11 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 8/15/11 at 3:13 pm to tadelatt
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I dont need to know him personally to understand the thinking behind what he did.
Well use your brain. You are implying that he would have signed for less than the amount he received. Supposedly, Lee didnt get a contract offer until the last minute. How did you know the Dodgers were going to make that high of an offer when you werent involved in the negotiations. The way things were being told at the time, was that the Dodgers were broke and wouldnt have the money to sign Lee. Also you dont know if Gausmann turning down whatever he turned down, allowed the Dodgers to increase their offer at the last minute.
Posted on 8/15/11 at 3:17 pm to tadelatt
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None but I am not arguing that point. I am stating what happened was a douche move.
You can all hate me and call me names but the fact remains, he played LSU. He used the name to get himself more money.
I dont need to know him personally to understand the thinking behind what he did.
You just have your feelings hurt. LSU knew the risk. We played the odds. If you had told Miles and Mainieri that as of 9:00 pm the night of the deadline that Lee would still be on campus and willing to turn down 3M+ both coaches would have taken it without thinking twice.
You are upset because he left...not because he used LSU. That is just your rationalization to ease your disappointment.
Both Miles and Mainieri understood what was going on. You did not.
Posted on 8/15/11 at 3:20 pm to tadelatt
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He used the name to get himself more money.
See Delino Desheilds Jr. Signed with LSU, never even stepped foot on campus, not even a visit, if I recall. Drafted 8th overall. That's an example of someone using LSU for leverage.
Posted on 8/15/11 at 3:25 pm to LsuTool
I call that a security blanket.
Posted on 8/15/11 at 3:28 pm to LSUIEGRAD13
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I call that a security blanket.
I call that naive.
Posted on 8/15/11 at 3:29 pm to LsuTool
ZVR is more of an example of someone who used LSU IMO
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