Welcome back to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskell. He is Paul Tenorio, and we have a ratified CBA brought to you this week by a Peter Francis Dracey law firm. Because as long as we have a CBA, let's talk about lawyers, Peter Francis Jeracy. Paul, your thoughts?

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You know, I think that we've gotten to this point now where you and I both feel, I think, a little bit goofy right now just from having covered so many CBA negotiations over the last 12 months. I actually look at the fact that this CBA is going to run for another seven years as a positive that I might not have to do this again for a while. Haven't I told you not to say that? Forest Mjeure is still in there, Paul. They could invoke it again next year in theory. Yeah, but at that point in time, I'll just let you

handle the whole story and I just won't, I just won't touch it. At that point in time, I'll be

living on an island with no internet access. So, enjoy. I think we both can look at it and say,

the owners got exactly what they wanted here, right? They wanted the two-year extension.

It was the most important thing that was on the table.

And they got it.

And in exchange, the players got what they wanted, which was no pay cut in 2021.

And they got a few small givebacks from the owners that, you know, they're not unsubstantial, right?

They're meaningful.

They're meaningful.

The free agency goes from 24 and 5 to 24 and 4 beginning in

2026. They saw some movement in the cap on free agent earnings going up. They saw a little bit

of movement in increase in available spending in some of the years of the terms of the CBA.

Again, not nothing, but I think you and I can both sit back and say, you know, the owners

are coming out of these talks much happier than the players are.

Yeah, no doubt.

I mean, we wrote an article on this that will hopefully be going up soon as we sit here recording on

Monday afternoon. But basically, the union was playing defense in this round of negotiations,

right? In a normal CBA, like the one we saw last February, that isn't being negotiated because

of a force majeure clause, the union would be pushing for gains, right? And in this case,

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