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I'm joining forces with Brad. Enough football talk. Let's get back
to baseball.<br>
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How are the White Sox doing?<br>
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-Andy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/27/12 11:45 AM, Brad Jansen wrote:<br>
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type="cite">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 <em>Harlan County, USA </em>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. <em> <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Jeff
Winick <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jhwinick@aol.com" target="_blank">jhwinick@aol.com</a>></span>
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<div>Clearly Mr. Adams is ready for Wall Street. </div>
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<div>Couldn't disagree more with the two of you, though. </div>
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<div>If the past few weeks have proven anything it is how
rare and valuable the talents of the referees are. That's
worth money.</div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>That is all. </div>
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<div>Jeff<br>
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Sent from my iPhone</div>
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On Sep 26, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Dennis Adams <<a
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<div>Very well said. Really hard to sympathize with
these guys.....
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<div>"<span
style="LINE-HEIGHT:24px;FONT-FAMILY:'Droid
Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;COLOR:rgb(55,55,55);FONT-SIZE:16px">Currently,
the NFL pays the NFLRA about $18 million, doled
out among some 212 union referees, for an
average salary of $150,000.</span>
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The NFL agreed two weeks ago to bump that up $1
million, increasing yearly pay to around
$190,000 by 2016."</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at
9:57 PM, Mark Blocker <span dir="ltr"><<a
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href="mailto:blockermark@gmail.com"
target="_blank">blockermark@gmail.com</a>></span>
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0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Dennis
et al:
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<div> 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:</div>
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<div><span
style="FONT-FAMILY:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:11px">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.</span><span
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