Maybe your expectations of being treated with respect.
A chance for your team to compete for a championship.
A year's worth of dreams. Moments away from the tedium of existence. A reason to drink. The calmness of the art of the thing. Some humour, camaraderie. A chance to contemplate strategy. A glance at the substantiation of statistics.
what? in a free market they get MORE that 50%. unless every owner, including KHL, colludes. and even then.
+1
The idea that players could get less than 50% in a free market ... all I can say is WTF?
The owners are the ones trying to put rules in place that prevent them from paying players whatever they want to pay. They know that if they have that freedom they will pay out way more than they are paying now.
I don't know how anyone can sympathize with the owners.
Which side ends up losing more is an interesting question.
If revenue is split 50-50 then both sides lose about the same amirite?
But if there are 25 or so players for every owner, the owners individually take a bigger hit. Then again, the owners are richer so better able to withstand the hit. Then again, some owners are corporations which is a different situation altogether.
Which side ends up losing more is an interesting question.
If revenue is split 50-50 then both sides lose about the same amirite?
But if there are 25 or so players for every owner, the owners individually take a bigger hit. Then again, the owners are richer so better able to withstand the hit. Then again, some owners are corporations which is a different situation altogether.
In general, marginal utility for $1 to the player who needs to fill the gas tank on his ski boat > marginal utility of $1 to an owner who wipes his ass with hundos
I'm not being dragged into any discussions about why Ottawa's 4th line winger isn't scoring enough, or how the 7th defenceman doesn't move the puck very well.