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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we'll be

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Speaker 1: smiling all day after hearing that Ted Lasso is coming

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Speaker 1: back for a fourth season. Do you remember that last

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Speaker 1: episode of season three is an AFC Richmond women's team

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Speaker 1: on the way I feel like we fell out of

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Speaker 1: then ended up in a pool.

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Speaker 2: Of cash and sour patch kids.

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Speaker 1: On today's show, we're going to dig into the NWSL's

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Speaker 1: new collective bargaining agreement with Players Association President Tory Huster

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Speaker 1: and executive director Megan Burke. Plus, we're going to dish

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Speaker 1: on NWSL legend Megan Rapino receiving her flowers, recommend some

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Speaker 1: pre Paralympics prep, and relive a magical night with one

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Speaker 1: of the most underrated pro athletes out there. It's all

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Speaker 1: coming up right after this Welcome back slices. Here's what

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Speaker 1: you need to know today. In soccer, the Orlando Pride

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Speaker 1: set the NWSL record for longest unbeaten streak with a

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Speaker 1: one nil win over the Houston Dash on Friday, extending

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Speaker 1: their run to eighteen straight games without a loss that

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Speaker 1: dates back.

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Speaker 2: To October fifteenth of last year.

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Speaker 1: The final game of the twenty twenty three regular season,

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Speaker 1: which also happened to be a one nail victory over Houston.

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Speaker 1: Washington Spirit rookie midfielder Croy Bethune tied the NWSL single

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Speaker 1: season assist record this weekend. She now has ten, putting

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Speaker 1: her square with the great Tobin Heath. And let's take

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Speaker 1: a quick minute here to highlight the season Bethune has head.

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Speaker 1: The former Georgia Bulldog, was selected third overall in the

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Speaker 1: for Rookie of the Year. She was initially named as

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Speaker 1: an alternate for the US Olympic team, but after Jaden

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Speaker 1: Bethune got the chance to compete in France. Definitely one

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Speaker 1: of those players we can't wait to watch for years

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Speaker 1: to come. Also, the Seattle Rain retired Meghan Rapinos jersey

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Speaker 1: in a special ceremony on Saturday night. The pink haired

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Speaker 1: icon of both soccer and social justice is nothing short

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Speaker 1: of a legend everywhere, but especially in Seattle. If you're

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Speaker 1: wondering just how much she means to that city, here's

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Speaker 1: a couple ways her impact was commemorated. The Space Needle

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Speaker 1: illuminated the skyline in Rain purple on Saturday night. On

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Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday, the five twenty Bridge lit its sentinels purple,

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Speaker 1: The Columbia Center's iconic crown lit up purple above the

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Speaker 1: Seattle Convention cent are Arch glowed purple, while the statues

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Speaker 1: of Seattle Mariner's legends Ken Griffy Junior and Edgar Martinez

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Speaker 1: right outside t Mobile Park wore scarves in Pino's honor.

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Speaker 1: We love to see a legend really get a whole

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Speaker 2: So cool.

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Speaker 1: In the WNBA last week, we told you about Maya

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Speaker 2: She got a custom jacket.

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Speaker 1: And a shoecase of gold versions of notable Jordan shoes

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Speaker 1: that she wore during her career. Maya was the first

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Speaker 1: memo to Jersey retirement organizers, can we maybe like space

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Speaker 1: them out a little bit next time? Because Rapino and

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Speaker 1: in game action in the WNBA, the Connecticut Sun and

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Lynx picked up two wins a piece this

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Speaker 1: weekend and officially clinched their playoff spots, joining the New

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Speaker 1: York Liberty. And of course we saw a bunch of

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Speaker 2: And of course it was the two spectacular rookies added again.

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Speaker 1: The Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark became the fastest player in

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Speaker 1: WNBA history to five hundred points and two hundred assists,

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Speaker 1: Chicago Skuy's Angel Reese tied Tina Charles for most double

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Speaker 1: you heard that right, her third straight game with twenty

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Speaker 1: She's also the first player in league history with multiple

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Speaker 1: But we have to mention that Marina Maybray absolutely torched

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Speaker 1: to golf. The AIG Women's Open came to a thrilling

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Speaker 1: It was New Zealand's Lydia Coe who finished on top,

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Speaker 1: She also won Olympic gold in Paris, earning enough points

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Speaker 1: Andrew's American Stelly Coorda and Lily Avoo were Amie those

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Speaker 1: US Open is finally upon us. Coco Goff plays at

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Speaker 1: approximately two pm today. Taylor Townsend plays her first singles

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Speaker 1: match around two fifteen pm Eastern. Don't miss tomorrow show,

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Speaker 1: by the way, because you're going to hear from Taylor herself.

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Speaker 1: Also quick shout out to men's tennis player Francis Tiapo.

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Speaker 1: He was rocking a Trinity Rodman's Spirit jersey during a

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Speaker 1: She likes to see a DMB guy supporting a DMB team.

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Speaker 1: All right, slice is It's almost time to talk to

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Speaker 1: at the end of last week, the NWSL announced a

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Speaker 1: historic new CBA, extending the current deal through twenty thirty

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Speaker 1: with some major new benefits for the players. Headlines include

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Speaker 1: beginning next year, contracts increases in minimum salaries and revenue sharing,

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Speaker 1: and that's just the start. We talked to Players Association

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Speaker 1: President Tory Huster and executive director Megan Burke, who generously

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Speaker 1: We have to take a quick break, but when we

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Speaker 1: She is the president of the nwsl Players Association and

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Speaker 2: It's Tory Huster, what's up.

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Speaker 3: Tory, Hey, Sarah, thanks for the introduction and thanks for

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Speaker 1: She's an attorney and the executive director of the NWSLPA

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Speaker 1: who led negotiations of the league's first ever CBA in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. A former professional soccer player, and former

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Speaker 1: coach nicknamed the Berknader. We once made a thirteen person

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Speaker 1: It's Megan Burke. What's up, Megan?

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Speaker 4: What's up, Sarah? We got to bring the pyramid back.

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Speaker 2: It's time always, it's been too long. It's been too long.

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Speaker 1: First of all, congratulations on what was a lengthy and

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Speaker 1: i'm sure difficult process to get to today, where the

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Speaker 1: NWSL Players Association announced a historic new CBA, extending the

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Speaker 2: Six through twenty thirty.

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Speaker 1: Now we've already shared with our listeners a couple of

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Speaker 1: the highlights, but for both of you, I want to

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Speaker 1: hear what you're most proud of in this agreement. So, Torri,

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Speaker 1: what's the part that you are really, like, just super

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Speaker 3: I'm continuously just proud, and I think the most striking

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Speaker 3: part of this whole thing is the engagement that we

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Speaker 3: see with the players. We had a forty nine person

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Speaker 3: We're willing to give feedback the number of hours that

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Speaker 3: players spent on zoom calls with us. Even through you know,

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Speaker 3: committed to getting a really great deal out of this negotiation,

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Speaker 3: and I think that's exactly what we did.

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Speaker 1: It's such a cool through line too, that we've seen

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Speaker 1: from US women's national team through to NWSLPA that the

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Speaker 1: players are consistently involved in the advocation of their own

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Speaker 5: What about you, Megan, Well, look, I think this contract

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Speaker 4: For sure.

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Speaker 5: It's been at least fifty five years in the making.

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Speaker 5: I know you're a baseball fan. Yeah, I'll forgive you

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Speaker 5: for being a Cubs fan pardners of my team. But

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Speaker 5: Kurt Flood fought for free agency, took his case all

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Speaker 5: For our players to finally achieve what he'd imagined, I

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Speaker 5: You look at what the WNVPA has achieved, especially in

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Speaker 5: and now what the NDBSL Players Association has achieved. I

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Speaker 5: are changing the sports industry.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, setting an example for others to follow. And we'll

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Speaker 1: go back quickly to what you said about the players.

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Speaker 1: I was so not surprised, but certainly hardened to hear

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Speaker 1: negotiating this deal, putting in the time when they were

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Speaker 1: in theory on vacation. What were you surprised to hear

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Speaker 3: I think because we are we're so well connected with

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Speaker 3: our players are intelligent. They are Often times they'll have

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Speaker 3: an MBA and we won't even know about it. I

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Speaker 3: the most surprising things that actually happened during in person

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Speaker 3: bargaining was we found out that Brianna Pinto has a

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Speaker 3: which we weren't totally expecting but was extremely useful.

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Speaker 5: So there's little there's little things like that.

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Speaker 3: But I think because we're so well connected and we're

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Speaker 5: That's right.

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Speaker 4: We saw in.

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Speaker 3: I think that we had already been thinking about sending

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Speaker 1: You were a number seven overall draft pick when the

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Speaker 5: I'm so glad you asked that Tory go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the fun part is the dressing up, the welcome

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Megan, what are the CBA elements can we expect

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Speaker 5: There are also some provisions in the contract. For example,

439
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Speaker 5: the league hiring a surfaces specialist who's going to inspect

440
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Speaker 5: all the match and training facilities and provide the union

441
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Speaker 5: of the report make sure that we're fostering the most

442
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Speaker 5: professional environment possible in this league.

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Speaker 4: There's a number of things like.

444
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Speaker 5: That, increasing medical staff, team staff, and then really the

445
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Speaker 5: compensation stuff is kind of an interesting one. Minimum salaries

446
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,879
Speaker 5: will increase, we now know what the collectively bargained salary

447
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 5: cap will be. And then revenue sharing is a headline

448
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Speaker 5: coming out of this contract. You'll feel it next year,

449
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 5: but it's actually this year's media and sponsorship revenues that's

450
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Speaker 5: going to increase next year's base salary cap. So I

451
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Speaker 5: mean that's happening right now as we speak. So there's

452
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Speaker 5: a lot of things that are you're going to feel

453
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Speaker 5: an immediate impact, and a few things that you'll start

454
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Speaker 5: to see take effect next year.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you a free agent frenzy in September as

456
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Speaker 1: music to Myers, as the host of a daily show

457
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Speaker 1: who's got full content brain, I'm already like ideating around

458
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 1: how fun that's going to be for all the moves

459
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Speaker 1: to happen and for.

460
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Speaker 2: That to be such a big thing.

461
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Speaker 1: Was there an issue in particular that the NWSLP and

462
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,440
Speaker 1: the league started off the furthest apart.

463
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Speaker 5: On economics were a tough one. I think they always

464
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Speaker 5: are in any negotiation. It was important to the league

465
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Speaker 5: to eliminate or phase out team provided housing, but it

466
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Speaker 5: was important to us, as the union and the players,

467
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Speaker 5: that every single player in this league is housing secure.

468
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Speaker 5: We don't expect that every single player is gonna, you know,

469
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Speaker 5: make the kind of money you'd retire on an nw's help,

470
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Speaker 5: but we definitely want every single player to singularly focus

471
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Speaker 5: on their craft, and so it took a bit of

472
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Speaker 5: work to find the compromise solution on that and fair

473
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Speaker 5: play to everybody involved. We hired an economist, doctor Beth Pollin,

474
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Speaker 5: former chair of the economics department at LaSalle University. The

475
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Speaker 5: NWSELL brought in their staff CARLN.

476
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Speaker 4: Hudson, Steph Lee, Tatiana Hyini.

477
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Speaker 5: They had a really great crew of people on their

478
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Speaker 5: side who all of us really were just trying to

479
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Speaker 5: find solutions. It's not necessarily that we were at loggerheads,

480
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,920
Speaker 5: but more just it was like a puzzle, like how

481
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Speaker 5: do you do this?

482
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Speaker 4: How do you phase this.

483
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Speaker 5: Out while achieving hasing security and meet everyone's goals. That

484
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Speaker 5: took the longest amount of time, and I'm really proud

485
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Speaker 5: of the work that everybody put in to get to

486
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Speaker 5: the right result.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the housing was gosh.

488
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Speaker 1: When I was a minority owner of the Red Stars,

489
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Speaker 1: that was one of the biggest things that the players

490
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Speaker 1: came to the new owners with absolutely first was this

491
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Speaker 1: needs to be solved. The owner at the time was

492
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Speaker 1: like the landlord for the players, so they were going

493
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Speaker 1: to him for a broken toilet, which was a complete

494
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: problem in terms of power dynamics. So some of those

495
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 1: things feel so antiquated now as we're entering this new,

496
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Speaker 1: truly professional era for this league, which is so exciting.

497
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Speaker 2: We talked about this.

498
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Speaker 1: The new CBA grants unrestricted free agency. This is fantastic

499
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 1: and wonderful. All the players deals are guaranteed, all trades

500
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Speaker 1: require player consent. This is all awesome for the players.

501
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Speaker 1: But Megan, I remember remember the early days of women's

502
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: pro soccer, players were often moved to a team near

503
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 1: where their husband or wife was working or got moved.

504
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,120
Speaker 2: Their deals would be made whenever.

505
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Speaker 1: Possible to prioritize player comfort and happiness and lifestyle. And

506
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Speaker 1: that was almost necessary because the salaries were so low,

507
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 1: the benefits were so low. To demand that players gave

508
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Speaker 1: this many months of their lives to something that wasn't

509
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 1: monetarily sustaining made sense.

510
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Speaker 2: Now that you've got league revenue.

511
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Speaker 1: Skyrocketing, investments skyrocketing, you have people with a lot of

512
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 1: skin in the game. For this to be professional, how

513
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Speaker 1: do you reconcile what's best for a team and winning

514
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Speaker 1: and their investment with what a player wants.

515
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Speaker 4: I think they're one and the same.

516
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Speaker 5: Right for this for a team to be successful in

517
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 5: neither players to be successful. And I just don't believe

518
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 5: that holding people has to do in an employment situation is

519
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,640
Speaker 5: the best solution, right. I think one of the things

520
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,199
Speaker 5: we need to talk about in free agency is freedom

521
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 5: of choice and what it means to be loyal right.

522
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Speaker 5: Loyalty is not something that's coerced, so it's earned exactly,

523
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 5: And that's what's going to happen here, is that teams

524
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 5: will earn the loyalty and commitment that a player makes

525
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,640
Speaker 5: to them, and in return, teams are making.

526
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 4: The same level investment in them.

527
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 5: Teams are going to have to hire, you know, scouts

528
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 5: and technical directors because they can no longer rely on

529
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 5: signing someone and saying, wow, we'll just fire them if

530
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 5: we can get it wrong or trade them.

531
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Speaker 4: You got to get it right now. So the jobs,

532
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 4: you know, gms are going to have a tougher job.

533
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 5: Teams are going to have a tougher job constructing rosters

534
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 5: and making player personnel decisions. And we've talked about this

535
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 5: with our players on the flip side, as a player,

536
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 5: you're making a commitment to them, and you've got to

537
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 5: uphold your end of the deal. Right, So when a

538
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 5: player chooses to go play for a team, they're given

539
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 5: their all. They're making a serious commitment. And I talk

540
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 5: about this a lot that the window of time that

541
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 5: professional athletes have to be professional athletes, Like maybe you

542
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 5: get three years. If you're really lucky, you get five

543
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 5: or seven. Very rare is the you know, do you

544
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 5: have a Tory Houster who plays for the same team

545
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 5: for eleven years? But even then in the Sarah, you

546
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 5: and I are probably about the same age. Like you

547
00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 5: look back now and you're like, eleven years isn't even

548
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 5: that long a period of time, right, So yeah, players

549
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,159
Speaker 5: and teams need to maximize this window of opportunity that

550
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Speaker 5: they have.

551
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Speaker 1: You and I actually talked last year about whether or

552
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: not the league should prioritize helping boost the struggling teams

553
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,120
Speaker 1: that are less resource to lift up from the bottom,

554
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: or further encourage the successful, wealthy teams who were setting

555
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: an example of what the future should look like because

556
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: the rising tide lifts all boats. Toy, I'm sure this

557
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,119
Speaker 1: has come up in negotiations when you're creating this new CBA.

558
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Speaker 1: Do you think it will disproportionately affect teams with more

559
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: or less capital, more or less revenue, bigger or smaller markets.

560
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: Will it be harder for some of the teams in

561
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,360
Speaker 1: the league to accommodate the new CBA elements.

562
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 3: I think it's really just an opportunity to step up.

563
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 3: I think it is we want we want variety in

564
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,959
Speaker 3: the league and so smaller market, bigger market, whatever it

565
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:56,199
Speaker 3: is we want. We want owners and investors in our

566
00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,640
Speaker 3: league that understand that this is something that is can

567
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 3: generate revenue, that this is not charity, and we're all

568
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 3: we're all ready to make money and to showcase what

569
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 3: players can do on the field and really just capitalize

570
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 3: off of this momentum. And I think that's that's going

571
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 3: to be a good thing. Whether you have a small

572
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 3: market or not. It really just comes down to whether

573
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 3: an owner is willing to make the investment. And I

574
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 3: hope that's the case that it should be the case.

575
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 3: I think if you're going to invest in a professional

576
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 3: professional sports environment, I mean, we've seen the valuation, so

577
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 3: they're definitely there's some positive coming out of owning.

578
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 4: A professional sports team.

579
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 3: So it's it's a good thing to invest in one.

580
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 2: Keep up or get out. I'm picturing the theme song

581
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 2: for next year. Can you keep up? Megan?

582
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 1: I'm wondering what you want other leagues to take from

583
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: your new CBA.

584
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 5: I think the most important takeaway is the power of

585
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 5: collective action. Our players are deeply committed to the idea

586
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 5: of solidarity and the commitment to one another. I think

587
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 5: it's really important for everyone to know they of course

588
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 5: we all know, you know, Alex More going to listen

589
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,719
Speaker 5: there these players, they're also play representatives on our bargaining committee.

590
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 5: And then you have people like Brianna Pinto, Damie Weatherhole,

591
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 5: Haley Hopkins, bart Nicole Barnheart, who's been around the game forever, right,

592
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 5: you know, who are quietly just making such a lasting

593
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 5: impact on our sport. We do think that this shows

594
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 5: set a new standard for professional sports in North America.

595
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 5: This is the tectonic shift in the American sports landscape.

596
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 5: But I also believe in the power of unions, and

597
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 5: it's for players, athletes and other unions to decide for

598
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 5: themselves what their priorities are, what's important to them, what

599
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 5: they want to see change. This at least provides them

600
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 5: with a blueprint if they are interested in eliminating a

601
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 5: draft and moving to a world where free agency is

602
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 5: the rule. This shows how it can be done.

603
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're sitting on a beach now because you're

604
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: going to be getting a lot of phone calls from

605
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: the folks asking you how you got it done?

606
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 2: Can they use you to negotiate theirs?

607
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: What are the secrets all that stuff? I'm leaving the

608
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: last question for the most important tory. Does the CBA

609
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: have anything about when the schedule is released? Because I'm

610
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 1: sick ofware in my is the schedule out? Meg t

611
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: shirt that Meg Lenahan sent me because she got so

612
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: damp sick of people asking her if the schedule was

613
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: out yet, like a day before the season started.

614
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 2: So is that in the CBA?

615
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 5: I don't even know how to answer that. I got

616
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 5: an answer.

617
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 4: You go ahead, President Easter, you got this.

618
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 3: You know I it difficult because we are not primary

619
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 3: tenants at our CDMs, and until we are, it's going

620
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 3: to remain difficult. You have seen someone like Angie Long

621
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 3: and Chris and Chris Long building their own stadium and

622
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 3: that's the gold standard. So they're going to be able

623
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 3: to set their game times when they want them, and

624
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 3: I think that's something everyone should should point towards. At

625
00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 3: this point, the schedule, I think is potentially still going to.

626
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 5: Be a late arrival. Keep that shirt.

627
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 4: Okay, shurt longer, but.

628
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give you that I'm going to be an optimist.

629
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 5: I'm rarely the optimist in this conversation, but I'm going

630
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 5: to say this. One of the things in this contract

631
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 5: that the league is able to do now is they

632
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 5: have a little bit more flexibility over setting the calendar,

633
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 5: this season footprint, And if you will, you can infer

634
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,719
Speaker 5: from this process that they're planning ahead.

635
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 4: The league is finally trying.

636
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 5: To position themselves and get the tools they need to

637
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,959
Speaker 5: be able to make plans further in advance. And so

638
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 5: I believe this contract is the right one for everyone

639
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 5: for a lot of reasons. And this is one of

640
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 5: the reasons why there will be some pain points inevitably,

641
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 5: But you can infer from this the league is thinking

642
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 5: a few moves ahead and is trying to game out

643
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 5: what could the next several years look like so that

644
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 5: we don't find ourselves Sarah.

645
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 4: Tweeting at each other.

646
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, a few weeks into the season, do

647
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 5: you have a schedule?

648
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 4: Do you have a schedule?

649
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 5: I get those those text messages too, Yeah, Also.

650
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: Because I want to start scheduling my life around going

651
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: to trips in in spots where games are happening, and

652
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: planning my schedule around getting to those stadiums and seeing

653
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: those teams so easier to do with a little more

654
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: lead time. Megan Burke, Tori Huster, thank you so much

655
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: for your time. Thank you so much for your hard

656
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: work on this. This is absolutely thrilling to see happen,

657
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: and I'm so happy for the league and the players.

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