Former MU star pitcher Crow enjoys his break in the action

Jim Bowden said the Nationals went to $3.5 million as the deadline to sign their pick neared and, for the first time, heard that the price for Crow had dropped, now to $4.4 million. Bowden held firm. So did Crow.

“Something could have been worked out, they just were unwilling to move,” Smart said.

Now it’s all over. Crow is sitting in a bar in Columbia, watching baseball on television instead of playing it, not wanting to talk too much about why he’s not a National.

“I was seeing nothing was really going to happen,” he says as he cups a cold beer in his hand and looks off toward the pool tables. “It was a long process. Sure there’s stuff I’d do differently now. For some reason the Nationals thought what I was saying was not what I was saying. They thought they were going to break me. That I’d fold and do whatever they wanted me to do. I wish I’d made it more clear that this is what I wanted. They tried to bully me.”

Crashing worse than Bully: Scholarship Edition.