Lisa: Remember, it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Homer (internal monologue): What does that mean? Better say something or they’ll think you’re stupid.
Homer: Takes one to know one.
Homer (internal monologue): Swish!
Brian Burke is talking some more about RFA offer sheets in light of rumours that he’s interested in Phil Kessel. Clearly, he overplayed his hand in 2006, trying to spin his outrage at having lost Dustin Penner to an offer sheet into some sort of principled position. Publicly, he had two objections to the whole thing: (a) the fact that Kevin Lowe didn’t kiss his ring before making the offer sheet and (b) the argument that Kevin Lowe somehow destroyed the idea of the second contract, where GM’s had the chance to get players signed cheaply who didn’t have an arbitration rights.