Comments on: Query: What Happens If There Is A Lockout?

By: The Fan's Attic

The Fan's Attic — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:57:57 +0000

@DC: i was thinking about the NASL last night and how it would play into the CBA negotiations. very interesting.

By: DC

DC — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:34:48 +0000

this is the perfect time to switch to the FIFA schedule. start the season after the World Cup when interest will be high. you can also allow full loan time to Landon and other players while giving yourselves more time to work out the CBA. it can be done. the “new” NASL has already saifd they will switch to FIFA schedule with a winter break. how many players may go to NASL if MLS has a Lock-out?!!!?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:48:59 +0000

Could they really bring in South Americans? I don’t know the exact wage scales, but it would seem that MLS couldn’t afford a whole bunch of them. Plus attendances would nosedive I think?

By: Elliott

Elliott — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:31:06 +0000

the NHL experienced a similar situation – a lockout means the owners do not want to pay the players’ certain wages. Thus, in the NHL example, most players went abroad to Russia for a year to make some money and stay in shape. I would assume that Donovan could do the same because the Owners are the ones preventing him from playing in MLS, not him.

Conversely, if the players strike, they MLS owners could just bring in a boatload of affordable South American talent. I would assume that they would temporarily change the rules of American player quotas

By: dmvdc

dmvdc — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:06:09 +0000

I was just wondering if it was the players or the league. Because Keller said they’re expecting a lockout, but everything up until now has indicated that it was the players who were going to strike.

Either way, check out the Barca game in the semi-final of the Club World Cup. They play some astonishingly beautiful football.

By: The Fan's Attic

The Fan's Attic — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:03:31 +0000

@dvdm: yeah, then they probably have sent notice already.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:45:04 +0000

I don’t know if MLS lockout= MLS death. I think a 2-3 week lockout might not hurt them at all, provided it serves as a nasty wake up call to get their act together. A season starting 2-3 weeks late would allow Philly to open their season in their shiny new stadium, and not in the Linc.

By: dmvdc

dmvdc — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:15:13 +0000

But: Section 3.1 Term: This CBA is effective beginning on the date it is executed by the parties and shall remain in full force and effect until midnight on the 31st day of January 2010, and shall remain in effect from year to year thereafter, unless either party notifies the other in writing at least sixty (60) days prior to January 31, 2010 (or of January 31 of any renewal year thereafter) of its intention to terminate or modify the CBA. So it would seem that unless they want to be caught under this CBA, they would need to have already notified that they want to alter it or terminate it. And they would have to have done that, because Section 6.2 prescribes some pretty significant penalties for striking while the CBA is in effect.

By: The Fan's Attic

The Fan's Attic — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:07:08 +0000

i wish the SPA was provided in the exhibits. it says it is but there is nothing there.

By: The Fan's Attic

The Fan's Attic — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:05:07 +0000

I would imagine nobody has terminated it yet but that the players will provide notice that shortly before January 31.