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Originally Posted by FAX
My sense is that they'll get this thing worked out in time. There's a lot of posturing going on at this stage - as is both customary and predictable. Each side will be leaking information to the press designed to support their respective positions, but the public arguments will be somewhat different than the private ones, so my advice is to take what you read with a salty rim. It's all part of the age-old game.
Rookie salaries will be one of the main issues, though. Interestingly enough, some kind of reasonable rookie pay scale is potentially beneficial to both the owners and the union. The benefit to the owners is clear. Not so obvious, however, is the fact that reasonable rookie salaries leave more money on the table for veteran players - a point that's not lost on the union, I'm sure. There's reason to be confident they'll ultimately find common ground on this, as well as the other, more traditional issues.
If not, it's going to be up to the National Women's Semi-Nude Tetherball League to save our country's sports bars from bankruptcy - which wouldn't be all bad. Nothing says "America" better than a large breasted girl going for a full openhanded, counterclockwise, overhead strike forcing her opponent into an inadvertent penalty wrap.
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I agree regarding the posturing, for the most part, Mr. FAX.
But it would be silly for DeMaurice Smith to lie about the information regarding the Packers. They are a publicly held company, so it would be pretty easy to determine if he's telling the truth.