go kim johnsson said:
It's not the PA's fault the owners found it necessary to cancel the season. We know the players wanted to play. If the owners are such great businessmen, then they should have come up to $45M and then made money from the lockout. Silly owners.
The labor board will see this and rule accordingly.
The players know that without a season revenues are going downhill.
Imo, this proves the owners are ready to go as far as they need to in order to get a CBA that works for them. They contend that even with these revenues they can't raise the bar to $45M (well not with the PA's other demands anyway).
The problem the PA has is they are the ones who are the most affected by that loss of revenue. Since people have been saying this before the season, they are accountable for being fools and playing the "wait more, lose more" game. Analysts thought revenues would be down to $1.5B next year. That's a prediction, not something 100% sure. With this, revenues may be down to $1.3B, which leaves less money to be divided between players and owners.
Why would the owners agree to a CBA where they still make losses just to preserve the PA's revenue? It doesn't make from their point of view. From the PA's point of view, what doesn't make sense is that they don't even want to save their revenues, all they want is an agreement that favors them, regardless of what they get in the end (which is going to be less money + all the money lost during the process). The rank and file players are uninformed and are being misled in the biggest loss for any union ever.
Do you really think it's a coincidence that Meehan's players have started lobbying for more negotiations? I don't think it is. Meehan's intelligent and he saw that the players had nothing to win, everything to lose to not get an agreement now. He explained the situation to his clients and now at least there are a few players out there educated questioning their association.