It's like trying to pretend that the U.S. can dictate the price of oil.

Like, it can't.

It's a global price.

NWSL needs to protect, in my opinion, from the outside should be protecting not against its own competition.

The risk is empowering your global competitors and understanding that the global

market is not going to react to whatever rules you decide. Like Chelsea doesn't care. They're like,

cool. Hello, I am Meg Lennan.

Welcome back to Full Time and Boy, do we have an episode for you.

Of course, we are still talking about Trinity Rodman.

We're going to be joined on today's show by the Athletics, Paul Tenorio, and John Hollinger,

to take a step back and look at other professional

leagues in America and how they have approached attracting and retaining star talent, no

matter where they were in their career. And we're going to think about salary caps and how to

pay players and all of that that is this larger conversation that we're having about

Trinity Rodman who wants a fair market value and the end of a cell has not yet come up with a

solution so we're going to try to find one form all right before we get to all that I do think

it's worth revisiting some of what we have been talking about first of all I want to remind you

that if you need a recap of all of the news that has been happening, because there is so much of it, go back to Monday's show, hit pause. We won't, we don't mind you leaving us for a minute. But Monday's show, I appeared on it with Jillian Sackovitz to go through the news where things stand. Not much has changed in the span of this week in the past couple of days.

So it's good to refresh. I also do want to maybe send you on another path of some NWSL history

because one of the other things that I think is coming up as we talk about Trinity of Rodman

and how the league is approaching this contract negotiation is actually

the almost court case with Olivia Moultrie, who at that point was suing the league for the

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