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I know it's the start of the NCAA Basketball tournament season, but something this stupid can't go unnoticed and written about by me, the 105th person in America that pays attention to these things.
It seems that the NFL isn't the only professional sports league that is having problems between 'Labor' and 'Management'. Major League Soccer seems headed for a work stoppage while the players re-negociate a collective bargaining agreement. The most recent publication I could find was from the Huffington Post.
First of all, if the Huffington Post is the only news outlet regularly following a potential labor strike for MLS, that says that no one really cares about your league anyway. Shouldn't soccer players in the US just be grateful they still have jobs without having move to Europe? The MLS is at least solvent and building stadiums for it's teams. It's growing and dare I say thriving in the face of other leagues that have failed before it. The quickest way to kill any fan base you may have earned is a strike or lockout. No one wins with these situations. Fans stop buying tickets, advertisers stop buying ads, people stop caring. Recovery in the eyes of fans takes years. Just ask the NHL, NFL and MLB. Hockey has never been the same since it's last work stoppage. Everyone remembers how bad the NFL was with scab players. And it took Cal Ripken, Mark McGuire* and Sammy Sosa* to resurrect that MLB after it cancelled the World Series.
Keep the MLS alive and kicking! No work stoppage in 2010.
* and a lot of steroids.
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