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i love the word jumbotron. the most american word, beating out any sad contender the likes of “burger”. immediately you get “jumbo”, the most american size; land of the Big Gulp. “tron”, like the movie, implying some vague cybernetic concept that hints at its purpose. then you find out, oh, it’s the giant screen at football games. the thing that sometimes puts you on blast for the most mortifying 45 seconds of your life, if you are so lucky. feel like (or become) a star, however briefly. get your affair blasted on national tv. everything about the word speaks to such an american way of living. huge fan

‘Drysdale has two years until he’s arbitration eligible, and one of the reasons he’s two years away and not one is that he fell two games shy of the minimum games played this year because of his shoulder injury. So if he had played two more games this year he would have accrued a year towards arbitration. He didn’t, so he’s got to wait an extra year. And that’s part of this situation. Anaheim is using its’ CBA hammer in this case. Drysdale has no rights at all, basically, so Anaheim is grinding away at him. One thing you have to understand about Drysdale is — Drysdale, from what I’m told — does not want to make a stink about this. He wants to be quiet, get his deal done and get back into play. I’ve heard that he’s asked that there basically be no conversation around him. He doesn’t want anyone talking on his behalf, he wants to be quiet, he just wants it done. That’s basically the way he feels. However, I have heard that there have been some conversations about just how the way the end of last year went — whether or not he could have played… There was a time last year, there was some thought that he might play and he didn’t. And I have heard that kind of an undercurrent of this conversation is “could he have played two games to get him this service year?” which would change the tone. I don’t believe they’re under investigation, but there is a little bit of discontent from what I understand, that could Drysdale have played and gotten those two games and arbitration. The Ducks really have the CBA hammer here and they are wielding it like Thor in the dark world…. There is speculation that in order to make sure they had the hammer… they manoeuvred this situation into a place where it assured Pat Verbeek that he had this hammer… Drysdale does not want this to be any more of a story than it is. He’s just a really quiet guy. [Jamie don’t worry, no one listens to this podcast!] I want to be very careful... I don’t think anyone is accusing the Ducks of doing anything nefarious because that’s a huge accusation… but what I do believe is maybe he could have played. Maybe? But now that he didn’t, the Ducks are using their hammer.’ - 10/02/23 - 32 Thoughts podcast