The only, what, which we know absolutely, positive, no doubt about the NFL labor impasse/lockout/Millionairebillionaire Spitfight this is:

We have no patience.

Friday's breathless TV talking head announcement, "we have entered day 80 of NFL lockout" reminds us once again that it is a day-81, and a day-82, and a day-83, his and on and on and on.

But the coverage Friday of 8th Circuit hearing and the evidence that begin the two sides, nervous, sidle up suggested that was a significant day for us all.

And it is not. This was just another third inning-Milton.

OK, fifth-inning-Milton. How you would make six more innings of this we know up to the drying out all sweat.

So, a primer is here on how bullying dealt with the long, lengthy process of the owner-to-player:

The owner will tell you if they are willing to football. This their game, and it ends when there are enough owners who open their doors to more than they need, crawl to the players to make.

This has always the owner in court, was because no matter what agreement with the players, the owners, much to deal with the problem of the owner, have on it not always their way more liberal revenue-sharing rules. The only way around that was so crushing received also the owners, get checks with their earnings, the managers positively from the player pencil would concessions a settlement with the players.

The players have known this from the beginning, and while she would have it no lock-out at all and the old CBA is there to be a new one, your backup plan string out the process and wait until the cracks in management, already has to reveal the façade.

It was a risky strategy to some extent, because their own financial problems in the game, but a strategy that is needed as the owner, time to play. And it is the time that appears in the media it has frustrated. You want to message that move the battle lines, and this is indeed a bit more like the tactics of first Weltkrieges--stay behind the trenches and wait on the other hand supply lines to break.

Most question is always, "if we get back football?", and it more and more sounds like, "If the drugs come?" There is so much room on the NFL trough for players and media.

But the truth is that no one can answer that, because no one is able to penetrate that a settlement could be held only with the claim that the rules be reconsidered revenue-sharing this owner. That would be teams in smaller television markets or teams with soft ticket bases or with owners, who bought their teams with debt instead of cash or owners who have other financial pressures outside of the national football team.

They are the ones that have defined this lockout, because they who insisted and court three times gone... well, four times now... to defend it. And these are the players before they even starve it, whose Strategie was, were starved out.

During the 8th Circuit Court heard arguments Friday before re-re affirm itself, and the candle in the window of the not-secret slowly flickers secret meetings between representatives of both sides, the truth is this:

We have a long, long way to go with this, and are the key when reducing the player (that day has already passed, really), but if the owner will turn on and argue what kind of course correction must about it with each other to make when the time actually comes to discuss ratification of the agreement.

In other words, this lot is no fun to a whole lot of fun, and you should not fool of "Well, at least they talk" shot in the dark. It is the fifth inning that still not enough for a pitcher in the team of each page, to get a profit. You buy a beer and a brat. It makes faster the time go.

Ray Ratto is a columnist for Comcast SportsNet Bay Area.com.

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