[fundmark19]

Originally Posted by fleury

People are mad because he wants his full salary for playing half games. I'm not saying this with a sense of condescension, but that's really what people would be angry about. The economics of the situation is that teams would get revenue from the tv deal, but no gate revenue, almost not merchandise revenue, and who knows what else would be cut back. As an owner, how can you pay the same salary when there's a ridiculous cut back on revenue? That's just not reasonable to me, billionaire or not. These guys are all going to LOSE money this year, so recuperating some from a half season is their only way of not losing more, billionaires or millionaires, they're going to lose millions each.

If my employer came to me and asked me to take a pay cut (say 20%) because their revenue this year depleted (say 40%). Until the covid situation resolves I'll agree. When it resolves, go back to my regular pay. It beats being laid off. To demand the same salary when you play half the games; when your owners are losing tons of revenue streams, etc., all of which you can see as fact is happening, how can you reasonably demand full pay? This has not been a risk that most people could reasonably plan for so what is his gripe about? If health is your concern, let it be known and sit out. But to say he expects full pay just because he's paid by a billionaire, is pretty unreasonable under these circumstances. Now if that same billionaire made a bad investment choice and couldn't afford to pay his salary, that's a different story, but this is a special circumstance.

That’s not the same. He doesn’t want his full salary to play he doesn’t want to play at all. He will concede to play if paid his full salary because that is what he signed up for in his mind. He’s not there saying “I’m the best there is and won’t play for less” he’s legitimately concerned for his well being and doesn’t want to play until things are sorted out. He has a particular skill set where it doesn’t matter if he holds out because someone else will hire him again when he is comfortable playing again.