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What's the mental impact of getting traded so often? I'm an optimist. I look at everything positively. Instead of looking at it as someone not wanting me, I always think that the next team wants...
...paid, you should be able to deal with the things that come with it. At the end of the day, I knew I still had a guaranteed contract that's worth crazy money [$9.3 million for 2009-10] at a time when money is scarce in America. Yeah, I'm getting traded here and there, but in the big picture, I don't really look at it as a tough situation, because I'm blessed to be paid as much as I am. I have both family and friends that play overseas. They don't see a quarter...
Last thing: Have you been traded during this discussion? Or are you still in Miami? [Laughs.] Yeah, yeah, I'm all good...
...collect driftwood and fairy glass, make s'mores even though no one really likes them, since marshmallows surpass superglue for stickiness? Will we still carve jack-o'-lanterns, color Easter eggs - or will holidays feel like formalities? I wonder if I'll miss Cheez Doodles and Jelly Bellies. I'm pretty sure I won't be buying them anymore...
...government can't begin to measure the hidden costs, of course, of sleep or sanity or solitude. It fails to factor in marginal expenditures on window-repairing, rug-cleaning, photo-processing, cell phones, sedatives. I'm thinking the bureaucrats have not been to a mall lately, since their tables allow about $60 a month for kids' shoes and clothes. It is true that globalization has driven apparel prices down over the years, but if you have daughters, you confront the annual phenomenon whereby the clothes shrink as the prices rise, leaving you wildly grateful for a school dress code requiring...