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I don't know why I feel totally different. I have no connections so I more than anything else will most likely be wrong, but personally I feel the owners have a case. Given the players even announced they were decertifying in order to have the upper hand, plus the failure to stay the whole time to try to work out an agreement. I just have a feeling that had the Union stayed the rest of the time, let the CBA expire, waited the 6 months (no matter how inconvenient), and filed to decertify, the owners would have little to stand on.

I'm just guessing but I could see the 8th Circuit telling the players they illegally decertified and force them back as a Union, then tell the owners to lift the lockout, and force mediation. No one pays a fine, no one gets blamed, all parties forced back to the bargening table. Maybe even force both parties to work under a court modified CBA (that neither party likes) until a permenant one is agreed upon