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Morning Mashup: Radio (and TV, and Internet, and Newspaper) Silence

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Morning Mashup: Radio (and TV, and Internet, and Newspaper) Silence
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The easiest Morning Mashups to write are the ones where there’s nothing to talk about. The toughest Morning Mashups to write are the ones where there’s nothing to talk about.

I’m literally writing this as Wednesday’s CBA meetings are ending (according to the Dan Rosen Tweet that just rolled in). They will meet again tomorrow, it’s been confirmed, and likely with the same modus operandi of not talking to anyone when they’re over. I guess we’re supposed to be impressed by this.

Really?

I mean, the way negotiations are happening now is the way they should have been happening in July. But they couldn’t have done that, could they? They had to posture for months and months so each side would know the other’s serious (as if they didn’t), cancel a bunch of games and make fall joyless so each side would know the other’s really serious (as if they didn’t), cancel the Winter Classic to ensure there were no events of moral and emotional leverage left and reduce the situation to pure manipulation of a projected revenue curve (as if it always wasn’t), and…ah, crap. The apathy really does make it near impossible to care, let alone write about it sarcastically.

I guess we should be optimistic? I mean, for the longest time, they were posturing nonsense. At least now, they’re posturing with – supposedly – positive progression.

Here’s hoping a flood of “today was more positive than expected” Tweets roll in from anonymous sources. A few initial ones suggest Make Whole was discussed. That’s good? On the other hand, this would get resolved real fast if the players would just forget it and let Bill Daly take some of their money back.

Come on. Look at him. He needs it. To kill Superman.

Unfortunately, in the case of a second consecutive poorly-scheduled-Wednesday, I’ve got a few major priorities that have totally usurped the NHL in my life which will prevent me from following the evening’s results too closely . Including, but not limited to: work, friends, and a midnight screening of Skyfall.

Here are some Thursday morning links!

-Morgan Rielly‘s knee injury, in a roundabout way, may have made him stronger. I know that’s a cliched thing to say, actually, the most cliched thing you can possibly say about a sports injury. But we all realize one of the best defensive prospects in the NHL is a Toronto Maple Leaf, right?

-The Marlies play the Houston Aeros tonight at 8pm. I’m sure there will be a whole mess of helpful information about it on marlies.ca.

-According to ESPN, Mats Sundin was the ultimate team player. I feel like this is a hockey-related ESPN piece we can actually take seriously.

-Not sure if we’ve had this posted yet (I’m sure we have), but Don Cherry wonders why Luongo would want to come here. Is there some hilarious bias in the layout of the reader poll, or some serious CSS error that everyone is getting?

-NHL sponsors are starting to get pissed. Good. Please, get more pissed. More publicly.

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  • Paulobie

    Mr. Pop Shoppe.

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  • captainmorgan69

    Yes, as the beginning of his career, but money and fame caught up by the end…I think the older players get what these guys are doing, after all so many of them live with sores of a career…some can hardly walk now.

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  • captainmorgan69

    LMAO

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  • wiski

    We use to have a porta- potty in the van for the kids on long trips. The wife did a #2 once, choked us out. lol

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  • rustynail

    Jon Walker ‏@jonwalker1986
    Disgusted to hear that certain Morrison stores aren’t selling poppies as not to offend other nationalities. Not good enough. Please RT

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  • MSM

    Don’t kid yourself. Those guys played for money as well. That’s why so many jumped to the WHA when they got the chance. Believeau refused to play for the Canadiens because of the money he was making with a Quebec senior team. Orr wouldn’t sign his first contract with the bruins until they multiplied their offer by five times as much. Hull staged a walkout with the Blackhawks after they wouldn’t meet his demands for $100,000 a season. Ted Lindsay led the charge for the first union in the 50s because players thought they were underpaid.

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  • TW_Dot

    Too funny.  I remember as kids we had a porta potty for a trip to Florida.  My friend was sick and took a dump in the back of the van.  I was hanging out the freakin’ window.

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  • The Shrike

    Yes, but in China the large businesses can’t opt out, whereas if pushed too far the large market teams in the NHL could literally leave the league and start their own.

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  • wiski

    Whats a Morrison store? and bullshit on em

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  • http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Glenn%20Healy TuckerThomas

    I had no clue.  

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  • mcloki

    Hi guys. Can I get an Update. Been Away. But by the lack of hinking horns on Yonge I’m guessing the lockout is still on.  Good news today or bad. or meh!

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  • rustynail

    Apparently a store I will never shop in.

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  • rustynail

    no real news a bunch of conjecture by the press

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  • mcloki

    Damn. I saw the phase-in tweet by BB. AT least they are talking about doing it the right way. I’m pretty sure Fehr is going to make this as painful as pulling teeth. Good maybe they’ll agree to a longer term contract.

    Here’s hoping for a “Turf Bettman” clause.

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  • The Shrike

    Bettman and Fehr won’t be around for the next round of CBA talks, that’s pretty much a certainty.

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  • Burtonboy

    I’m going to stop posting that stuff . Its all speculation. What we do know there have been offers and counter offers and there will likely be a couple more before they agree

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  • mcloki

    It’s be a friggiin holiday here in Toronto the day Bettman resigns or is more likely, dragged away by federal prosecutors. I predict dancing in the streets.

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  • mcloki

    No don’t stop. You’re my most trusted source of info on this blog. ;-) Hell, Call Alec and become a part time writer. 

    An yes. It is a negotiation. It’ll look bleak, till it’s not. Sadly though I predict the final CBA is going to look a heck of a lot like the September offer. 

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  • OBIE

    They could but in order to operate they way they do now there has to be a CBA, which puts them right back where they started. Here’s the legal info

    “Once the labour union is decertified, the league becomes a monopoly collusion between a group of owners to fix the price of contracted workers. Price fixing is an anti-trust violation. Independent companies or teams A, B, and C cannot collude to set a price, or to say “I will not compete against you for that resource.” Drafts, salary caps, exclusive rights and refusal to poach others’ players are all illegal. Walmart and Target or ATT and Verizon cannot get together to say “I will get exclusive sales of iPhones, and you take exclusive sale of Blackberries and Nokia, and we will not offer any contracts below $50/month.”

    When it’s a union, the players have all collectively agreed to the arrangment with the owners, so whatever procedures used to allocate the players have been agreed to by one party – the union.

    IIRC, the special exemption to anti-trust and price-fxing applies in the USA only as long as the athletes have the protection of a union group to demand better pay.

    Yeah, they could go play for the Podunk semi-pro league (or maybe they can’t?) but when one group effectively controls real pro basketball, they are effectively a monopoly. When multiple independedent groups collude on price or carve up the market, it is price fixing.

    If the owners don’t want a free-for-all no limits player market, they must come to an agreement with a player union. Otherwise, they will get a court decision (likely) telling them they CANNOT make any arrangements with other teams to limit player pay or mobility or individual bargaining rights, and cannot impose restrictive clauses on mobility.

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  • Burtonboy

    Its actually getting a bit rediculous on twitter. I. Mac just told everyone to chill out because its incomplete info

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  • Komas Taberle

    One good thing about the strike is Molson’s is feeling the pinch, and that will hurt Montreal Canadiens, i don’t drink any Molsons product since they launched that 67 bullshit, let them go broke is what I say.Shitty beer anyway!

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  • mcloki

    I felt better today not knowing about this stuff. I think it just takes up to many brain cells. Anyways Still have work to do but I’m home so I can check in periodically. Any hockey on tonight?

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  • Doorman,s Bettsy

    I hope the PA isnt dicking around!  Cause if they are;  Bettsy will call their bluff and cancel the season!  IMO

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  • wiski

    Good piece by Mirtle
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/globe-on-hockey/how-much-revenue-sharing-should-the-nhl-have/article5103058/?cmpid=rss1&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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  • mcloki

    It says the Subway Series os on. I saw like 5 seconds last night. Any good hockey or just kids skating?

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