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welcome back to take action is everybody david shuster here so glad to have you
with us uh... joining us now on the show dave's erin is the host at the vet edge
of sports on um... on accent sirius satellite radio you can follow my
twitter edge of sports days i would welcome to the program
a great to be here david
you know there are a result there are rumors on the interwebs
that uh... get a book coming along
you know that a book coming out party in two weeks it's called gaming over
about politics enter in the sports world upside down it's about the lapd
several years in the world of sports along with it
the sports pages have been capable of covering all the incredible story
they're coming out in a row
looking export production incredible and i understand our world
it is a because of my local print media would not this example e_s_p_n_ or even
as was certainly sense in the major newspapers and on one of us have
cover the ugly side of the the business side of sports because they lose their
access
i think there's a lot of that
at this very limited coverage i think one of the problems with that
a lot of amino
journalistic entities in the sports world are also broadcast partners and
that creates a flagrant conflict of interest
but even when they do cover what's going on whether you're talking about the
lockout taken place in sports whether you're talking about
the n_b_a_ players who stood up for
trevan martin after he was murdered by george determine whether they are
talk about what just took place in the n_f_l_ with that make chatting and
sending the watchmen football quarterback
archie three on the field that is in need
absolutely destroyed whether they did talk about that stuff and they do
they're very little effort it intercepted trying to understand how we
can understand it back but there seem to be all the dynamic stories pop popcorn
in all over the place
this i one of the stories about the recently was the end of the labor
dispute uh... regarding the national hockey league has the commissioner gary
bettman alongside don fehr who's the players' rep making the announcement
official
good morning everyone
dynasty retire here to tell you
we have reached agreement on the framework
of the new collective bargaining agreement
details of which uh...
put the paper we've got about a lot of eyes cross a lot of cheese
slow a lot of work to be done but the basic framework of the deal has been
agreed upon designed what is that basic framework in the how did the players do
well the players didn't do great interpret financial w
uh... they lost money to revenue-sharing well politics' tracted from the players
pockets and put my pocket of ownership
others salary four of the n_h_l_ had lowered that means that any tokens are
required to spend less money
than they were before which will create much more of a two-tiered
system in the national hockey league where units down the road it looked like
major league baseball recap the yankees and then the pittsburgh pirates in
ridiculous salary differentials between the different clubs
uh... it also what it does is it makes it very difficult for players khalid
their clubs and go to other teams via creating chea neak
fat profits more difficult if there's any plots for the players in all this
any plot at all effect donald fear really did more ben at the players
association through this process well you could argue that before this latest
walked out the players association was a very weak
and now there are merging from sidney crosby on down
uh... agony unit that's very unified in very serious about fighting for the
letter of the contract
over the course of the two green it which is a ten-year agreement whipping
up that after eight years
this any lessons for us to labor unions even outside the world of sports based
on how this particular dispute was resolved
well the only re-election his beware of a lockout
that the lockout has become in the broader world of labor management
relations coming up so much more unique and you have to tell you the number of
walk out to new mexico doubled since two thousand and issues to be that order
rail of labor negotiations in labor relations in collective bargaining in
the united states now it's become a starting point of strategy by corporate
america and the n_h_l_ certainly does show that because
but the national hockey league did i mean is that the leadership of it i
should say the owners the commissioner gary babbitt
they were ready to feed their second to buchanan seven years just cancel they're
giving it up forty eight game season where you're gonna see injuries pilot
bob you're gonna get me it's gonna be i think a debate cataclysmic forty eight
games branch
to orion kidded stanley cup finals this year it all together very much hurt
teams that you and i are interested in filing like the washington apples we're
trying to break in a new coaching adamo it's gonna destroy teams their training
institute new systems and new coaching methods
and so this is not going to be a fun year for national hockey league fans and
the pope when it comes down to note that the n_h_l_ owners were willing
opted destroy
the long-term interest of their product in it
but for the benefit of short-term profitability which frankly makes them
not at different from
the washing wreckage into what they did archie great and other may come at a
much different from what we should incur on wall street over the last decade
either for that matter