Posted By:
Aaron"So Aaron what you are saying is that if you went you would not give yourself a chance to change your opinion and that you would only go would be to see the mastro facility. I am sorry to dissappoint you but the whole Mastro location was not on the schedule until we made plans to fly out there."
Well, I would substitute "unwilling to allow myself to be manipulated" for "not give yourself a chance to change my mind", but otherwise yeah, that's about it.
Now, had I known a tour of Mastro's facility been on the table, I might have been willing to shirk my professional responsibilities and burn a vacation day and allow myself to serve another person's agenda, but as it was originally presented, the answer was no, I was not willing to serve another person's agenda under those circumstances. (For the tour, I would have chalked it up to "If you are going to use me, I'm going to use you.")
As far as my opinion, I haven't really offered one on the validity of the streak bat. The only thing about the sale(s) that I've spoken out about are the fact that Bushing owned the bat, and if he disclosed this to the eventual purchaser. Otherwise, I am content (as I have said repeatedly) to let the matter be resolved in a neutral forum by those who are much more educated on the subject than me during the Planich litigation.
The only other thing that was really an issue was undisclosed conflict of interest, to which no new information was added during your trip. And, yes, I can say with certainty that I would not have changed my mind and approved of it, even if given a free lunch and tour of MastroNet (although I would have been very cordial during the visit!).