Where I Breathe A Little And Reassess The Current CBA Situation Again

and that none of the owners have any ties to the folks tallying the votes…and no katherine harris.
i smell another “hanging chads” scenerio! espn would milk that fiasco dry, too.

Special for what? I want to watch Baseball Tonight!!!

he’s saying that the proposal they ratified was different than what they had originally discussed. After looking over it, he’s saying that even though it’s different, the differencing are things they should be able to work out. They just needed some time to read over the details before forwarding it on to the players to vote on.

Good news. Players wrapped call, then leadership received final details. Vote can come tomorrow if they can satisfy a finishing detail or 2.
Players want lockout lifted if/after they vote yes, then sign player union cards at team facility, collected by reps and regional directors

They felt duped because it was different than what they had discussed(a few of the items), but now after reviewing it, apparently it’s not a “bad” deal. A lot of the players responded to hearsay

Doesn’t matter what those “peeps” would do. No one would WATCH that. You can watch the UFL now if that’s your idea of football. People want the sport at the highest level, with the best players. That means those people have a right to be paid for a service they can provide no one else CAN.

And no one’s EVER gone to a game to watch a billionaire owner. (Mark Cuban perhaps excepted.) I don’t see the logic in giving billionaire owners who already HAD a guaranteed profit even more money without ensuring the product is at least equally good for all sides.

It’s a 10 year CBA, it should be fair for both sides BEFORE it’s voted on by either. This was a pressure play by the owners. Dirty pool, honestly.

I don’t commonly agree with Jay Glazer, but he made a point on NFL Network that explains part of the current hold up. In the NFL, the players are instructed by their coaches (who represent the NFL to them) that when your opponent comes at you and overpowers you, it is your job responsibility to fight back. The NFL has to consider that if this is the league’s ethos of the game, then the players, when they perceive that someone is coming at them saying you have just 90 minutes or just a few days to say yes or no, and that’s just it, the answer from many is going to be: you are not going to bull rush through me. Maybe the deal is fair, but when the league commonly manages by saying that we don’t care if what we do is in line with the principles which we spouted to you, but that you signed a contract saying we can abuse you under the CBA, even though we don’t always abide in the spirit of some of the nice words in there ourselves, then trouble in River City is likely to remain in the forecast. Certainly the players need to realize that time is of the essence and you can’t always get what you want, but snapping the bull whip is never going to win any popularity contest. If your opponent smells bad to you, you want to hold your nose. That’s human nature.

If there’s no special session, I think they’re gone. And honestly, I don’t think the Vikes can put as much money into lobbying in September as they did this time.

The Minneapolis Mafia wants to play chicken with the rest of the state. Not understanding if the Vikes leave, it’s a black eye for THEM too.

…for Viking fans parallels the answer to the old question what is the last thing that passes through a bug’s mind on the expressway? (Answer: The windshield.)

Saying you are poor is not going to hold water when people know that when you were rich, you didn’t build any better Viking stadium either.

If you can’t make much of a bid when the other two guys in the auction are billionaires, who do you think goes home with the masterpiece at the end of the day?