PaulinMyrBch said:
Well this is going Brady's way IMO. Doesn't take until Friday to rule for the NFL, you just throw a few sentences together about upholding the powers of the CBA, blahblahblah, and it's cha-ching. Happy hour!
The ruling and order for Brady take more time. Have to be careful writing an order vacation the arbitrator's award.
In terms of the tea leaf reading that goes on in this thread, and with the caveat that we really have no fucking idea, I'd say that this is actually more high quality than most.
One thing not to underestimate is that judges are just like the rest of us with respect to work. They have fancy jobs, but they are still jobs. Sometimes they like to work, sometimes they feel burned out, sometimes they are lazy, sometimes they want to read the internet. The assumption yesterday, which immediately got elevated to Gospel, was that the "opinion was already written."
Why does Berman want this to settle? Well, one answer is that it's hard to rule against the nation's most popular sports league and also it's hard to rule against the GOAT, and so he would like to avoid that and maybe play hero a bit. Or maybe it's just a real lot of fucking work, and he would have liked to avoid having to write an opinion about a complicated labor law issue that seems to be heavily disputed with no clear answer. So, maybe the opinion wasn't written at all. (Doesn't mean he hasn't decided, just that he sill has to write.) And writing a judicial opinion -- especially one that lots of people will read on complicated unsettled issues -- is really fucking hard. So he needs more time. He's probably busting his ass right now, or at least those in his employ are.
