Um, neither he nor I suggested giving money to non-playoff teams. Not sure where you got that idea from.
Indeed, on the contrary, I said, take it away and give it up for charity.
Maybe he just wanted to strengthen our vision, and repeated it, instead of trying to say something diffrent.
I had a few posts that where taken the wrong way too, it's quite common in written language, intonation can be difficult to bring over.
Let's wait and see his reply.
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