While I am definitely i favor of the international draft, the union counterproposal Drellich cited (if no agreement on international draft by November, the qualifying offers come back after one year without them) seems pretty reasonable as well. Even if some of the union negotiators were in favor of this, it is pretty clear from the reaction today that they are going to need time to assuage the concerns of Latin American players. I totally agree it was a reasonable counter offer, but the original 3 offers were all reasonable too. And sometimes you can just counter offer yourself to death. Sometimes the deal you've been offered is actually quite good. And if it's true that for some time, the intl draft was tied to the draft compensation removal, and then all off the sudden, the players said hold on, we are getting blowback from our Latin members. At that point, the clubs have every right to say, hey, we agreed, so here are your 3 choices on how to handle this, and you are the ones who backed out, so we aren't taking a counterproposal