And it could have been to their advantage.

For the first time we as Americans were acutely aware of what you do,

I think 30 to 50 percent of teams won't participate in free agency, because they won't be able to. It's going to be tougher for the teams, tougher for the players, tougher for the agents.

I guess that could occur. But that's not likely.

I really don't know. It's just one of those strange occurrences.

No time soon. This all happened so quickly.

The retirement thing came down very quickly with Jerry. It came a week ago Saturday, and by the following Monday Labor Day he was announcing his retirement. We had about an hour together before that happened.

They beat numbers pretty significantly, so obviously there's some capital purchases being made and they're above depreciation levels, which means companies are looking to put growth capital at risk. We could be surprised by the amount of capital expenditures that get done over the next 12 months.

They definitely wanted to do this. And Seattle was Shaun's first choice all along.

It'll probably go down to the last hour Thursday night.