The elephant in the room is stirring, perhaps even stomping around a bit. Denial is no longer an option — MLS labor discord is real, and the players filed the opening salvo this week with a claim that league owners are preparing to lock them out when the current collective bargaining agreement expires at the end of this month.
A source close to the players confirmed to FanHouse on Wednesday that the MLS Players Union has no intention to strike but that they consider the lockout threat to be real. It goes without saying that the loss of some or all of the season could potentially be devastating, especially in a World Cup year. As the 2009 season concluded, both sides remained aloof and mostly vague when asked questions about the CBA, as if a timely resolution was an inevitability and speculating otherwise would be a waste of time. The silence was almost deafening. Now with a little more than three weeks to go, that veneer has been shattered.
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