Donald Fehr
Donald Fehr
Donald Martin Fehr is the executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association. He became nationally prominent while serving as the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1985 to 2009...
expect highest operating rather reported teams true
One of the things we'll look at is reported profits. You expect teams with the most revenue, rather than the revenue-sharing recipients, to have the highest operating profits. That may not be true in very many cases, and that's something we need to look at.
expect gets hard paid
I expect it to be pretty hard bargaining. That's the way it always is. That's what we get paid for. That's what the commissioner (Bud Selig) gets paid for.
certainly expect hope precise
Can I give you a precise date? No. Would I expect it to be by the end of the World Series? I would certainly hope so.
expect financial hear heard kinds past widespread
I do not expect to hear some of the kinds of things that sometimes we've heard in the past about widespread financial distress. We'll see. It's not up to me.
We always thought it was out of line. Were we surprised? No.
certainly date deal formal goal hard obvious owners
There has been no formal date set. It's early. We'll have to see. The obvious goal is to get a deal done, and we'll certainly try as hard as we can to do it and, hopefully, the owners will, too.
people special world
The Olympics, you have to remember, is an event onto itself; it's unlike anything else. It's a multisport event, you have people from all over the world and it has its own special charm, its own special issues. But it's distinct from anything else.
enough
You go through the Sporting News for the last one hundred years, and you will find two things are always true. You never have enough pitching, and nobody ever made money.
perfection people human-condition
Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.
beginning closure everybody happened penalty
Obviously, we thought from the beginning that the penalty was excessive. Hopefully, everybody understands what has happened and we can put closure on this issue.
bad suggested
No one has suggested it was a bad idea.
books gone players spring video watching
More memos have gone out, books have gone out. There's a video that players are watching in spring training.
anybody bunch curious happen nobody plays start whenever
Obviously, I'm very curious to see how it plays out. Whenever you start something new like this, you never know what it's going to be like. You know a that whole bunch of things are going to happen that nobody thought about, and they're going to happen in a different way than anybody thought about. But you don't know what they are.
concern criticism measures players program reasonable several share
We share your concern about the criticism our program has received, and, in response, the players have demonstrated, several times now, their willingness to take all reasonable measures in response.