Nice Too quick for me then. That one went right past me. Boy do I feel stupid. This is what's great about Bigsoccer. Homework...
One would imagine I did, yes. http://www.ussoccerplayers.com/blog/2005/01/what-im-watching_25.html Former sportswriter... means I know...
We asked them, and by 'we' I mean the Fed and the PA. http://www.fmcs.gov/internet/
No. We've been through this in the longer thread and it's not new information. I understand not wanting to read through pages of posts to find...
We had a no strike clause in exchange for retroactive payments when the new deal was signed. It took the pressure off of getting a new deal...
Nah, no way you could've known and it was a reasonable conclusion on your part.
It was not contractually mandated. The Fed did it for the good of the players and it was appreciated by all involved. That said, we had asked it...
Yeah, I know. Aside from a couple of exceptions, it was what you expected. Nobody outside of some of the writers really wanted to be taken...
Wow that sounds like you're setting me up to say the obvious. Most were positive. We had two on the last day who wanted to yell... at the...
And there are third place bonuses for other competitions in our current schedule. It was overlooked last time, in part because it did seem...
Actually, their original proposal was for no increases, so they've moved substantially farther than we had.
You mean our mediation proposal to reopen camp that the Fed tried to add a number of clauses to that made it unacceptable for our membership? The...
Yep, that's PR from both sides. It's not like 'proving' the 38% figure isn't accurate is going to move the Fed off their numbers or that doing...
Neither do I. I don't think I need to stress the importance of having at least the beginnings of a good relationship coming out of all this....
Hey Beau, how about giving the nice people their discussion back and letting them rightfully vent? Guys like you and me don't need to be involved...
December 2003 actually, and what's listed for the individual games are the win numbers per player (that's inclusive - there isn't a separate...
I wrote That's me, thus the I've. Mark's been doing this for nine years.
He's right, but thanks for doing it.
(You've already seen Mark's denial and the emails, so you don't need me paraphrasing) Personally, Mark wouldn't say something like that. I've...
To eventually have the business side make enough money to pay a dividend to our members. They chose to invest the money rather than pocketing it....
Just to repeat a previous post, I'm going to be in Baltimore at the NSCAA Convention early tomorrow through late Saturday. I'll be offline most...
It was substantially more than the press release and was detailed, both in why we weren't accepting the arbitration deal and why we thought...
We're not in mediation. The Fed has yet to respond to our refusal of the binding arbitration offer. We proposed mediation, but that has yet to...
Re: Moderator Suggestion We're using US labor regulations.
Re: Moderator Suggestion FIFPro knows this and they also know there are three separate unions in the US representing pro soccer players....