Midge Purce of the USWNT and NWSL's Gotham FC speaks on women's salaries and the high-impact player rules.
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Trinity Rodman's new deal with the Washington spirit
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Obviously, you've been an advocate for women getting paid in the league, finally getting what they earn and deserve
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First of all, how happy are you for Trinity? I'm so happy for her. I honestly think she's worth more if we're being honest
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I like that. So, yeah, I'm happy that she's getting more money
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I think we can do better and make it a little bit more accurate
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Can you please explain for the people that don't know, as far as women getting paid more
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Can you please explain to them about the high impact rule? Oh, that's a travesty
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I don't even know all of the pieces of it. Because when I first read it, I was like, this is so stupid
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I don't even want to keep reading it. The NWSL has instituted a high impact player rule allowing teams to pay players upwards of $1 million based on performance on the U.S. women's national team and other things
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It's one of these rules that kind of allow you to get more players on higher salaries
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But for Midge, why do you think you think it might not be as good for the league
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It's a mechanism to pay players more, but it's unnecessary. It's like you're putting in all of these hurdles and qualifications that you don't need, where you can just raise the salary cap in order to pay players more
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And OK, you want to make a mechanism. You want it to be really authentic And the rules that they put in are just so bad that it doesn it takes away a lot of the most talented players in the league they don qualify for it yeah so that that like my actual problem
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with it and the credibility and the legitimacy of the specific parameters are really stupid read a
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couple of them because then i can i can tell you right from it to qualify as a high impact player
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someone must meet specific performance or marketability criteria. For example, being highly ranked on global player list, having big national team minutes or earning top league
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honors. Okay. Global player lists. We're letting like the journalists who don't even pay attention
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to our league determine who is worthy and valuable to be paid. Like we're already so
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undercovered in sports journalism and we're going to give what espn top 40 the authority to tell us
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who's the best in the league when they don't even they don't even cover our games like accurately
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right it's not even just accurately like they don't pay attention enough right in terms of
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quantity to be able to make those determinations you have players like dabinia one of the best
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players in the world she doesn't qualify for this sam kerr doesn't qualify for this under this kind
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of rule. Lynn, she changed her name. She got married. Everyone keeps getting married
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Lynn Williams Biendola. She doesn't qualify for this. And she is the leading
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goal scorer of our league. Like she holds the record. It makes no sense
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