-Montreal
-Head Scouter Jim Dall released the Official report for the Scouting Summit in Montreal from Nov. 1-2 late in the workday Friday.
The report, written in collaboration by Jim Dall and Scouters Mike Angsten and RosaLinda Meschyel, spoke little on the matter of Claudien Ainenl, relegating negotiations with him to "mere fruitless fluff" and "a waste of the time of all the good scouters at this event." It also wrote that "although nothing will be decided or confirmed at this time, our chances of pursuing Mr. Ainenl in the offseason have greatly diminished."
It then went on for seven other pages on the "absolute importance" of re-signing Brianna Galen-Ames for 2012. Galen-Ames, who participated in the summit via webcam from her central Illinois home due to a broken ankle, wanted to raise the maximum contract offer from $1.5 million/year to $2 million a year. Though Scouters refused, they did say they would undergo intense negotiations "of other contractual aspects" to please Galen-Ames. The report elaborated on this: "The talents and monetary importance of this chef are beyond measure, such that we will take measures as drastic as possible as long as they do not interfere with something as sacred as the offer roof."
The report then took on an apocalyptic tone, predicting "all-systems-failures" and "total loss of interest in the event of a certain demographic" if Galen-Ames were not to be signed. "The 30-45-age female demographic will go entirely down the tubes this Thanksgiving with Galen-Ames not on the team. There will be a guaranteed drop of 31% in this demographic and we will need to re-sign her for 2012 to recover from that."
Event Mgr. William Vanderbilt shooed the remarks in the report away, calling them "inflated, biased and meaningless figures."
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