Contract Problems

Being new to all this I have no idea about what is happening when the ESPN states a particular professional player’s start is in question because there is a problem with his contract. After a week or two I’m starting to get a feel for things. For instance: My son called yesterday and said he may not get to start in the season opener because of contractual problems. Seems it all comes back to me and it’s my fault! Since he’s not 21 yet I have to sign for him. His club sent me his contract to sign and I signed the contract and placed it in the pre-paid FedEx envelope, drove down to FedEx 20 miles away, walked up to the counter and explained I had a pre-paid envelope and asked for instructions. The clerk plucked the envelope from my hand and informed me she would to take it from here. I asked for a receipt and she punched in a few numbers in her high tech looking cash register thing and out comes a “ticket” with tracking number, destination, employee number, time of day, weight of contract, size and color of envelope...everything possible was on this slip of paper. Since it was “overnite” I’m sure it was whisked to a waiting jet and delivered to the head person of the Toronto Bluejays. Here is where the contractual problems started. This state of the art, high tech, envelope especially designed for FedEX that cannot be torn by an Olympic weightlifter that comes with its own 3M adhesive protected by the little piece of paper you remove before sealing... well, it had NEVER BEEN SEALED. The envelope was empty when it arrived.
But have no fear..FedEx has the most sophisticated tracking system in the world...The only problem is this tracking system is for envelopes....not for contents.