04-22-2019, 11:49 PMBDonini Wrote: I still don't understand all the outrage in this thread. It's like JNH said here, it's still the GM's responsibility.

04-22-2019, 11:20 PMJNH Wrote: However, I've seen it made clear before that it is the GM's responsibility to ensure that the pick tracker is correct and they know which picks they own.  Therefore, there is a requirement of due diligence on the part of GM's that doesn't exist when you're getting an oil change.  

I don't deny that the pick tracker fucked up, but to say there's no fault to COL for forgetting they traded for a pick is also incorrect.

If my manager at work is responsible for a task and they hand that task off to me, I'm being paid to do that task but it doesn't clear my manager of his responsibility. If I mess up, I'll be held accountable but so will my manager as the task was their responsibility in the first place. Yes, there was a pick tracker and he didn't do his job properly but if a GM also has the responsibility to track his own picks then he's also partially at fault.

Imo there's no right or wrong option in this situation, HO could've justifiably given COL compensation for the pick just like they could justifiably deny COL of compensation for the pick.

I guess my biggest issue is that there's a well-established precedent for this exact scenario. When a pick gets double-traded, the offending team loses an extra pick and the "receiving" team still gets the pick. This precedent dates back several scenes and came back up very recently.

To go away from that precedent suddenly now because "it's the other team's fault too" ignores that in every other instance we've applied this result, the other team could have spotted the error as well. Furthermore, HO seems to be leaning a bit on "Well, we've changed pick trackers since then" which, like, yeah, both teams have changed at least one GM since then. That's only evidence of how badly the ball was dropped by all parties. So making an exception to the precedent on this one occasion because "It's sorta Colorado's fault too" is really dangerous, imo.