>> US women's soccer players have at last reached a landmark agreement with their sports
governing body. To the tune of about $24 million that is going to thankfully end a six year legal
battle between the players and the governing body. And apparently the US soccer didn't actually have
to do this, the claims of the players have been dismissed in court a few years ago.
So while this number that we're about to launch into is not what they had hoped for,
it is apparently more than I guess they were obligated to give. So
bear all of that in mind as we talk about the details of this agreement.
US Soccer Federation and the women announced that they will have the players split $22
million about one-third of what the players had been originally seeking in damages.
The USSF also agreed to establish a fund with $2 million to benefit the players in their post
soccer careers and charitable efforts aimed at growing the sport for women. They also say that
they're going to provide an equal rate of pay for the women's and men's national teams subject to
collective bargaining agreements with the unions that separately represent the women and the men.
And Alex Morgan obviously a prominent player put out this statement.
It's so gratifying to feel like we can start to mend a relationship with US soccer
that has been severed for so many years because of the discrimination that we faced.
To finally get at this moment, feels like we can almost sigh a breath of relief.
That's good news. >> Yeah, in progress, I'll take it
any kinda progress at this point is well
very welcome actually because it seems like everything has been regressive instead of
progressive lately. So yeah, I'll take it. >> That is definitely true And by the way there's
a combination of progressive and regressive in my choice to include this on the rundown.
So I included for the progressive reason that it's good hey, a little bit more equality,
they're gonna get paid well for their amazing work that they do. Also if this comes across in the
feed of a right winger, how mad is this gonna make them, and what does that say about them?
Honestly, if you're a right wing male and you're watching this and you're getting mad at me,
why are you so happy about these women getting paid? You little,
tiny, pathetic little person, what is wrong with you? And I will remind you by the way
that this will not convince them of anything because logic has no hold on their brains.
Despite seemingly all of the little access points that have been produced by rampant brain worms. So
the US women have won four World Cups since 1985 including back to back World Cups.
The men who had been better paid haven't reached a semifinal since 1930, pre World War two.
But no every right we're going to be like doesn't matter still better, nobody cares.
>> It's just the idea that women have to work so much harder than men just to like
not even make as much money as them. So the struggle continues what you gonna do.
>> Exactly and it's not just like hey, they they do good stuff in their league here domestically.
They're going and winning, representing our nation, they're defeating the best talents,
the rest of the world can put together. These right wingers should be cheering for that America
first baby, they're actually first, they're winning no women doesn't count, just doesn't.
>> It's women and it's soccer and I feel like Americans are still just not on board
with soccer the way the rest of the world is and they should be soccer is a lot of fun.
We used to play soccer at Beardsley park
when I was a kid. That was a lot of fun. >> I used to go to Beardsley Park anyway,
I used to play tennis there. But anyway by the way, the fact that we're not in a soccer I think
should make right wingers more eager to dunk on the rest of the world.
We are going and winning in a sport that nobody here even cares about,
if we win baseball or whatever, okay. We're 99% of the baseball in the world and that's not
the fact that we can go and win in a sport that's not even in our bailiwick should be better.
But dates, you were excited for the dream team, the rest of the world figured out
basketball 20 years ago. This soccer baby,
anyway Rick Strom is gonna get on my case for some of the things I just said.