[USML Announce] Commentary

Andrew Klein anrklein at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 08:23:13 EDT 2012


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
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>     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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>>     -- 
>>     Dennis F. Adams III
>>     Candidate, Juris Doctor 2013
>>     Northwestern University School of Law
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