Mark is within his right to say Counsell wasn't worth it, at that dollar amount, if he even received the opportunity to match. Again, I don't think he did anything wrong, offering to make CC the highest paid manager.
And no, if another team offers 2.5 times the money for a free agent player than what the Brewers offer, the Brewers will never land a free agent.
Counsell's gone, he wanted to be gone. I took issue with the term "hometown discount". I called them your numbers because I used what you typed ("$16.5") and divided it by three. I wasn't suggesting anything else.