No. He's a guy that knows what his contract says and hasn't made a non-company, derisive comment about his situation. There are plenty of other athletes that wouldn't have taken the high road and would have instead run their mouths/social media to disseminate their side of the standoff.
You may want to flip Pirlo and Mix but point well taken.
passive aggressive celebration would have been tweeting about it before the list came out.
And Okoli on the bench for some offensive firepower.
Haha you're calling people that weren't protected less fortunate?!? Nobody has moved yet and there's no guarantee that anybody will be selected. It'd be one thing if everybody not selected was getting terminated, but that's not the case. Sure, there's a chance that somebody will be on the move, but any of the players not protected will likely find more playing time at the new club than here, so to most, that's a cup half full way to look at it. But go ahead, make them out to be the victims and make Mix out to be the villain. Then again, you've never had anything but disdain for the guy so I'm not surprised you'd confuse zeal with logic.
There's a whole forest around the tree you see. The team had 11 spots to use and its highly dramatic on your part to say that not getting one of those spots implies the team doesn't want to keep the players; every player not selected for the 11 either had an additional year on their contract or just had their option year picked up - that speaks volumes about whom the team wants to keep around. There were plenty of casualties last week with options not picked up or guys retiring. If Mix had tweeted at that time, then he'd be a dick on Twitter, but he didn't tweet then.... so he actually hasn't been passive aggressive and he hasn't been a dick. Care to try and label him a third time?
11 of 28 spots can be protected - that's only 39% of the team. Of those 11, nobody would ever question not keeping a DP/TAM player, so that is Villa, Pirlo, Chanot, Mix, Johnson (technically TAM after it being used for his acquisition). That leaves 6 of 28. Mataritta is a valuable commodity that will be transferred next year for a profit, so that then leaves 5of28 = 18%. There were really only 5 spots that the Front Office had to decide, and from those they were definitely choosing Cap Friendly producers in TMac & Khiry & RJ, and the workhorse CB Brillant. That left one spot out of 11. As has been debated on the Forums, there were pros/cons to choosing Lopez, mainly because of his Cap value and he served a particular role of DMid. It's really no slight to the other guys that weren't picked - there were probably pros to keeping all of them since they all were under contract, most getting options exercised, and that action alone means that the team values their service - they just didn't have more than 1 spot to logically play with.
I think we're in agreement more than we disagree but you kind of proved my point. Your "Cap friendly producers" are clearly more valuable and less dispensable than the guys on the list. And maybe dispensable is a harsh word.
Yes, without Mix-debating too much more, his tweets are clearly those of someone who won't play again and is instead engaged in a lingering stand-off.
The good news is that we did this in our infancy when we weren't going to win a title anyway. I suspect (hope) it will be a loooooong time before we hamstring ourselves with another similar contract.
