At that time, they voiced no negative displeasure,

At that time, they voiced no negative displeasure. Obviously that changed between that last series and Monday.

I'm under no direction from ownership that I have to trade them whatsoever. That's not even a factor.

There's no question it's going to be a busy week. You're going to have some released players that had outs in their contracts that are going to be available, you've got players who are out of options that are going to be available, you've got players who ended up being 26th or 27th men on competitive teams that could possibly be an upgrade for us. You're going to see a lot of names, more as the week goes on. Every day the list is going to increase.

He always did the job - most of the time better than any of the others. There's no doubt he went out kicking and screaming. He was a policeman,

This is amazing to me, I don't get it. No one on my team phoned me to express any displeasure with Ted's hiring, I can tell you that.