[USML Announce] Commentary

[Doug Shabelman]

People whose teams are on the verge of losing 100 games should not say anything-- ever. 100 games.


Doug Shabelman, President
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From: Andrew Klein [mailto:anrklein at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 07:23 AM
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I'm joining forces with Brad.  Enough football talk.  Let's get back to baseball.

How are the White Sox doing?

-Andy


On 9/27/12 11:45 AM, Brad Jansen wrote:
Jeff, please. Your 4th paragraph, second line. It is "its" players, not "it's" players. I don't know how many times I have scolded you about this, and poor grammar undermines your well-stated points. I too have no quarrel with any employee (represented or otherwise) ever asking for more money from his or employer. Parties can say yes, no, negotiate, arbitrate, reach an impasse and go from there. I suggest Messrs. Block and Adams get ahold of Harlan County, USA to see what working men and women have fought for ever since this fine country was founded: the right to earn a fair wage in a safe working environment. From coalminers to cabbies to NFL refs to the paralegals in your office, the struggle continues to this day.

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Jeff Winick <jhwinick at aol.com<mailto:jhwinick at aol.com>> wrote:
Clearly Mr. Adams is ready for Wall Street.

Couldn't disagree more with the two of you, though.

If the past few weeks have proven anything it is how rare and valuable the talents of the referees are. That's worth money.

Part time?  Sure, so are the NFL players. This is a multi-billion dollar industry that can afford to pay it's players hundreds of millions of dollars. The owners generate similarly oversized profits. These officials are at the pinnacle of their field and they are obviously crucial to the game.

They are no less entitled to be paid (and perhaps absurdly so) than anyone else in the NFL and I, for one, am pleased to hear that they will be.

That is all.

Jeff

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On Sep 26, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Dennis Adams <dadams17 at gmail.com<mailto:dadams17 at gmail.com>> wrote:

Very well said.  Really hard to sympathize with these guys.....

"Currently, the NFL pays the NFLRA about $18 million, doled out among some 212 union referees, for an average salary of $150,000.

The NFL agreed two weeks ago to bump that up $1 million, increasing yearly pay to around $190,000 by 2016."


On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Mark Blocker <blockermark at gmail.com<mailto:blockermark at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dennis et al:

  A blogger post I saw on ESPN in response to one of Peter King's one-sided stories about how the NFL should just cave already on the referee negotiations.  I could not have said it better:

Perhaps you see things differently, but I look at the "deal" these part-time employees have, and I pretty easily conclude that they, through their union, have priced themselves out of the market.  $100K per year for working part time, part of the year?  Full benefits, all completely funded, AND a fully-funded retirement program?  Where do you find that deal anywhere, including jobs that are "life and death?"  An airline pilot, for example, doesn't make near that much when you consider full time and year 'round, and if they screw up hundreds of people can die.  Perspective, folks.  It's a game.



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