In all candor, I think the agreement has probably been showing positive trends sooner than we might have expected. It looks like it's working.
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Because of the nature of our travel and the makeup of our employees, it has never been an issue that we had to centrally regulate, ... The clubs have been close enough as to what they require of the players.
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David Wells has once again created a distraction with a series of ill-informed and ill-conceived comments, ... The appeal process for on-field discipline ... has served the industry well for decades. Mr. Wells' dissatisfaction with his appeal says more about his poor behavior than it does about the quality of the appeal process.
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The tax mechanism in the last basic agreement would not be acceptable to us this time around.
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We are disappointed obviously that the union decided today to set a strike date. Our hope had been that we could get an agreement with the players without the players taking this step that causes such concern to so many of our fans. Our disappointment is magnified by the fact that as a result of compromises by both sides we made substantial progress towards a new agreement over the past weeks. A number of important issues have been resolved and we are close on many others.
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