“We know when we’re being lied to”

While not a Cardinal, I found this quote from Nick Castellanos to be very relevant to the uniform situation going on.

“The problem is that lawyers and businessmen think us young athletes are stupid. So they just tell us whatever and they expect us to believe it, and that’s kind of unfortunate, because it’s not that we’re stupid. We just just didn’t go to law school and don’t know how to negotiate business deals. That doesn’t mean we’re not intelligent. We know when we’re being lied to. Just say straight up, ‘Listen, we wanted to save money here. This is how much we’re saving with this quality of uniform. An old uniform and the old stitching cost us this much, and we’re saving this amount of money.’ And then our next conversation would be, ‘OK, if you’re saving that much money, where are you putting it into the game?”

Interview with Nick Castellanos by Stephanie Apstein, Sports Illustrated.