09-14-2026, 10:37 AM
(09-14-2026, 04:55 AM)khaled1987 Wrote: As I said previously, this is about the collective power of owners more than anything.
Balmer cheated on the system that the owners designed for their own benefit, they are the ones that put that punishment and enforced it. Silver is just the face of they need for that, but he himself has no power to fight a guy like Ballmer, OTOH, Ballmer doesn't have the power to fight the rest of the owners.
But Silver, one of the lead lawyers who messed up the Joe Smith thing, had the trade craft needed this time around to completely and utterly box Balmer in, legally, using the CBA to an insane level of precision, even before Balmer knew what was happening. I'm sorry, but that gets a hat tip from me. He correctly recognized that the job didn't stop with discovering the truth, but that it would take some art to actually ensure anything real was done about it. Super impressive, imho.



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