As most have now read the article from the local Toronto daily newspaper, in which Dwayne DeRosario is quoted as saying, "I didn't demand a trade, I demanded a new contract," I thought it apt to post the raw audio from DeRo's first post game scrum in New York.
In it, he comments about his desire for a trade out of Toronto, mentions his contract negotiations with New York and is quizzed by the beat reporters if it was his representatives that first contacted New York.
There are parts of it that are not relevant to this discussion, but since this divorce has become a black and white issue for many, with people setting up camp with the club or the player, I've left it un-edited and with as little pre-amble as possible, so as to not further cloud a debate that is now largely a he said, she said affair.
Thanks to Daniel Feuerstein, a New York Red Bulls reporter, for passing this along.
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