I had an exchange recently with an owner in one of my progs concerning Matty Alou. He'd posted in the forums that Matty was on the trading block. I offered him Bill Sudakis for Alou, and he sent me a sitemail saying: "I'm going to need more than that, since Matty was my favorite player when I was growing up."
To which I responded: "Well, Bill Sudakis is my biological father!"
Anyway, I thought it was funny that someone would use their "personal relationship" with a player they were shopping around to get a better deal.