Originally Posted by Golden Bear

Senior mainline guys are:

A: out of touch with/don't care about the grave issues/concerns junior mainline and regional guys are staring down the barrel of.

B: the very gentlemen who sold out scope and allowed this C-scale system in order to pad their extra innings thus killing this profession.

Instead of asking your daddy and his friends for their insight, I'd be asking them why they didn't mind the store for you and yours as well as it was taken care of for them.