Part I. Direct damages -- The reliance-flexibility tradeoff and remedies for breach -- Assessing damages : now or then? -- The lost-volume-seller problem and why Michael Jordan wasn't one -- Six pennies for your thoughts : Freund v. Washington Square Press -- Freund through the looking glass : Chodos v. West Publishing Co. -- Cleaning up Lake River -- Part II. Consequential damages -- The "tacit assumption" and consequential damages -- Buffalo's field of dreams : Kenford Company v. Erie County -- The Achilleas : forsaking foreseeability -- Part III. Excuse and changed circumstances -- Excuse doctrine : the Eisenberg uncertainty principle -- After frustration : three cheers for Chandler v. Webster -- A precedent built on sand : Nor Con v. Niagara Mohawk -- Part IV. Offer and acceptance -- Brown v. Cara, the Type II preliminary agreement, and the option to unbundle -- Traynor (Drennan) v. Hand (Baird) : much ado about (almost) nothing.