So instead of shaking our collective heads in disgust, with acid-in-tongue comments like players are too dumb to understand it, or owners are too greedy to share it, we should simply recognize that although it would be better to sit at the kitchen table and hash it out like a honest principled family, this is just a day in the life of transactional law.

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