Bates admits to being in a bad head space

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(11-16-2021, 02:33 PM)pdub2005 Wrote: You guys crack me up with this crap. Your earnings are all relative to your peers. I am sure a lot of people look at me as a systems engineer and say 'he makes too much money,' but in reality there are plenty of other systems engineers who make more money than me. Everyone wants to be paid what the market dictates. If the market dictates that Bates isn't worth his desired contract, then he won't get it. I always find it so funny how we are all so quick to hop on the case of players not 'deserving to paid X.' You are worth what the market says you are worth. I am not sure why everyone is so protective of Mike Brown's pocket book.

At least Bates was honest enough to admit that he hasn't been playing to the best of his ability. Plenty of other players would just shrug or brush off inconsistent and lackluster production. 

I don't think anyone is protecting Mike Brown's pocketbook.  Most fans understand that in a salary cap league, it's bad to pay elite money for a guy who is mediocre-bad half the time and only elite 1/4 of the time.

I'm never going to begrudge a guy for getting every cent he can, but I'm not going to fall over myself to have sympathy for a guy who wanted his existing contract torn up and to be paid at an elite level after only one year of elite level play.  I'm especially not going to be sympathetic after he admits to being mopey about it and mailing it in when the team is in the playoff hunt.  If he wants to get paid, he needs to prove '20 wasn't a fluke.  So far, he very much looks like WJIII all over again.