- Nov 10, 2019
- 47,486
- 30,114
- 2,490
- Moderator
- #21
Sounds like they are taking a hit if not being paid for games not played. I was pretty much salary for all but 2 or 3 years near the beginning of my working career, been sent across the country for corporate to fill in when a plant that was union was striking, walking right through picket lines to do their work. Been supervisory/Mgt, seeing both sides and mostly able to do what I thought best. Have also called my branch manager to get sent back home and made it stick, when somebody at corporate or the troubled branch was actually trying to screw their workers and using people like me to enable. You really never know (what's the skinny) in some situations until you are on the inside.Then the players should try and purchase teams.....or set themselves up in a business for when they retire...not everything has to be equal....if the players want to keep getting the ridiculous pay they are getting they should be careful not to break the owners bank....its just common sense......we all are taking financial hits right now why should the players be exempt?....Not necessarily the best way to look at it. Players only get to play to make their money for so long. Teams can always be kept or sold clean into an owner's dying days and there is always a market. The agreement is the agreement. Who knew the owners were stupid enough to make a bad deal that paid the players for games played, when they could have forced them to take a less equitable arrangement, to where the owners could get a better more one sided, forced deal by welshing on agreements, using inherent monopoly power and basically forcing a lockout. Sounds like a good way to end up with a union to protect the players interests against monopoly power of the owners in what might be considered an unfair bargaining position, even when both sides actually need the other to make any money at all. Oh, I guess that is what has happened. Guess they will work it out, hopefully without too much further whining by the owners. Sounds like the players were willing to play for the agreement, agreed to.Its not wise to break the guy that pays you your outrageous salary....