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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Agreed Jay, but as we saw from the Wideman arbitration case, how it is actually written matters more than the intent of the CBA. And in this case, Feaster was trying to do an end-run around a CBA that was only really half formulated on the back of a napkin. Anything that was not spelled out in the Memorandum of Understanding would almost certainly have defaulted back to the previous CBA.
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Actually, the previous CBA did not contain the exception for players already on a club's reserve list. And that CBA was no longer in force in any case. The entire dispute was about the interpretation of a clause that had been added specifically in the new CBA.
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