Jones & Keefe; The Jeremy Swayman situation is out of control

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00:00This whole process, I've been of the mind that I like Swayman, he's a good player,

00:04I side with players over management 99.9% of the time, 100% of the time in football,

00:10and most of the time in the other sports. And I was like, get Swayman done,

00:13get him a fair deal. And even though he's asking for 10, all right, negotiations,

00:17they offer six and change, whatever. If they land on eight, I think eight's fair.

00:21And we know that he has taken the arbitration thing personally. How do we know that? He won't

00:26shut up about it. He's nonstop. And how pathetic is this? It sounds awful when he's like,

00:33yeah. And then he's like, you know, the arbiter is like, and it's their job.

00:36He even admits like it's their job to sort of say like, why you're not worth like what you're

00:39asking for awful things about me. And then he's like, I wrote, I wrote a list down and I stare

00:44at it every night and I look at it on the wall and they said not trustworthy in the playoffs.

00:49And I said, check. Oh yeah. When you were skating around with a cup, when was that? When were you,

00:53like you had a good playoff run for two, a series and a half or whatever it was like,

00:57let's not go crazy. I'm sorry to disappoint you. I'm like, very, very, very pro Jeremy Swainman.

01:03But it's like, how can you be? You beat the Leafs. Everybody, everybody beats the Leafs. You beat the

01:07Leafs in the playoffs. I mean, like let's count the goalies who have beaten the Leafs in the

01:10playoffs. Yeah. Like Lena Zolmark never advanced in the post season. And so Swainman went farther

01:16than Lena Zolmark, but like everybody beats the Leafs. It's just too sad sack for me. I'm still

01:22on his side, but that is, that's hard to stop. Okay. I'm too dull to be around. At least you,

01:28at least you can admit that as a rough go. I'm like, come on. Yeah. But like the Bruins have

01:33also been like real pissy and hard to defend on a bunch of stuff too. No doubt. And if Cam Neely

01:38is wrong about the 64 million. Wow. We want him to take our 8 million and he won't do it.

01:42Yeah. Like, okay. So I'm saying, so they're being bitches on both sides. Oh yeah. Yeah.

01:46But like the Swainman stuff is ridiculous. Like did you get, you went to arbitration,

01:50told everybody like I didn't want to do it. Yeah. I wrote down the list of negative. I beat the

01:54Leafs check. Yeah. I could see him like Steve Buscemi and Billy Madison scratching it off

01:59with lipstick and then putting it on himself and just be like going to sleep. Like, yeah,

02:04I don't, uh, I don't love the sound of this guy. Also, does it sound like a guy who could just

02:08sign a deal and then move on and get it over with or does he hold onto that for the rest of his

02:13life? It's like, and trust me, part of me is pro holding a grudge, but it's like, dude,

02:17you got to get out there and you got to play. And this is part of the business. This is part

02:20of the business you signed up for. You're a businessman. You also told us that you went

02:25to main business school with some of the other most intellectual people in the world. And now

02:30you're coming back and you on the one hand acknowledge what an arbitration is and how it

02:35goes. And yet you're shocked that they had like counterpoints.