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09/17/2004 05:34:56 PM · #1 |
I wanted to leave an E-Mail message to the NHLPA saying that I wish them to stay locked out for a year...There is no way to contact them. I guess they can't count too much on having E-Mail to encourage them. It's funny to see all of those guys saying candidly to us that no salary cap is even a possibility. 75% of earnings used to pay the players. WAKE UP GUYS, WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD!!!
Very sad though for the workers around them losing their job because of this.
Ahhhhh I feel better...
Message edited by author 2004-09-17 17:36:40. |
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09/17/2004 07:36:02 PM · #2 |
I don't = (
I'm definitely going to go through withdrawal.
I agree about the people losing their jobs - all the people behind the players - arena staff, etc. Not good.
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09/17/2004 07:40:53 PM · #3 |
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09/17/2004 07:48:22 PM · #4 |
If the NHL locks out and nobody notices, does it make a sound?
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09/17/2004 08:03:15 PM · #5 |
Can the players file for unemployment?
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09/17/2004 10:11:08 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by louddog:
Can the players file for unemployment? |
Yes they can. Financial need is not a pre-requisite for unemployment insurance. |
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09/17/2004 11:22:33 PM · #7 |
maybe not a sound in the us but in canada...
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09/18/2004 12:00:24 AM · #8 |
I'm about to the point where I wish pro sports would just go away. Most pro athletes are a bunch of over-paid whiners. The owners are too, for that matter.
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09/18/2004 01:55:28 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by cbeller:
I'm about to the point where I wish pro sports would just go away. Most pro athletes are a bunch of over-paid whiners. The owners are too, for that matter. |
i don't see how people can be mad at the players. the owners got themselves in this mess. if someone is going to offer you insane amounts of money to do anything, why would you not take it. really, the whole thing is capitalism working itself out. up to now owners thought it was worth paying players high salaries. some owners didn't of course, but others did. now the owners are in agreement that it's not worth it anymore, and are in a way laying off their employees to try and salvage the business.
baseball is the same. a couple of owners felt that alex rodriquez was worth spending 250 mil on. to me, and what he can do for me, he's not worth anywhere close to it. however, to someone who has a baseball team he is.
overpaying your employees isn't the employees' faults, it's the ownership's. |
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09/18/2004 02:03:00 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by nborton:
overpaying your employees isn't the employees' faults, it's the ownership's. |
Well I agree that owners probably started the mess. But now, I think it's really up to the players to put their sport back on track. I think they're the ones who will have to bend right now. No way they can survive with 75% of their revenues required to pay the players... |
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09/18/2004 10:02:04 AM · #11 |
I blame them both. They're both greedy. The owners may have got in the mess because they payed the players that much, but it's because the players demand that much. Look at all the contract re-negotiations that go on with players because somebody else starts making more money than them.
These multi-million dollar contracts are absurd. Nobody is worth $100 + million dollars. I don't care if you can shoot a ball out of your a$$ at 150 mph, you're still not worth that much money.
Originally posted by nborton:
Originally posted by cbeller:
I'm about to the point where I wish pro sports would just go away. Most pro athletes are a bunch of over-paid whiners. The owners are too, for that matter. |
i don't see how people can be mad at the players. the owners got themselves in this mess. if someone is going to offer you insane amounts of money to do anything, why would you not take it. really, the whole thing is capitalism working itself out. up to now owners thought it was worth paying players high salaries. some owners didn't of course, but others did. now the owners are in agreement that it's not worth it anymore, and are in a way laying off their employees to try and salvage the business.
baseball is the same. a couple of owners felt that alex rodriquez was worth spending 250 mil on. to me, and what he can do for me, he's not worth anywhere close to it. however, to someone who has a baseball team he is.
overpaying your employees isn't the employees' faults, it's the ownership's. |
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09/18/2004 11:16:38 AM · #12 |
Sure there is. All they have to do is get the city/county to build their facilities with money they steal from the taxpayers and airlines to pay with bailout money for the nameing rights etc, etc.
Originally posted by darix:
Originally posted by nborton:
overpaying your employees isn't the employees' faults, it's the ownership's. |
Well I agree that owners probably started the mess. But now, I think it's really up to the players to put their sport back on track. I think they're the ones who will have to bend right now. No way they can survive with 75% of their revenues required to pay the players... |
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