"I like to think of us as a premier sports performance company and we do really extreme product development -- and sometimes the products we develop are unique and it requires somebody in what we call 'the front row' to explain to the masses that this is the best, " Baden said.

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"I would love to see the players have a union and we do a collective bargaining agreement, like all the other sports, " he said.

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