Last season, former Atlanta Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez found out he had been fired when he received an email with an itinerary for a one-way plane ticket back to Atlanta while his team was on a road trip.
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NFL player reveals how cutthroat and cheap the league can be
While contracts in the NFL are not guaranteed, a team can't cut a player if he is injured.
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If he had not signed the waiver, the Dolphins would have been forced to either keep him or pay him an injury settlement to release him. They didn't have to do either. Instead, the Dolphins used Golic's willingness to play hurt against him so that they wouldn't have to pay him.
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