The Catch All CBA (Collective Bargaining Agreement) Thread

i shudder to think who is John Boehner and Mitch McConnell in that analogy....

 

well who is the biggest crybaby?

 

Not quite. If you came in to the league at 20, you'd be a free agent at 26 (age + 6 years of service =32).

I like this idea, and my thought was that a player could enter free agency after completing 2 contracts. Standard contracts tend to be 3 years in this league. Get all the way through 6 years of that and you're a FA.

 

Starting at center back for the Earthquakes:

 

Don't know how to interpret that as a business model though. We can't get there. Despite that, people currently have delusions that we can and they need to believe that to buy tickets. In that case, the Don should just keep telling people what they want to hear but not spend the money to try to get there. You may have something!

 

Always been the best plan to me or at least the fairest. 27/7 still leaves a lot to be desired if you you start at 18.

 

So the 26 year old star can come into the league and play 1 season and become a free agent while the 25 year old draftee still has to go two more seasons?

It can't be OR as that makes everyone over the age a free agent by default. Understandably at this point the owners want to retain some of the current system.

The suggested age + years of service = some set number (32-34 seems reasonable) would be the best option IMO.

 

Nonsense. I'm not super optimistic that we WILL, but we certainly CAN.

 

Right, which means the young signees get free agency earlier, but it's still not available to everyone. For the college players who sign at 23 it would mean they become a free agent after 5 years at 28. for someone who signs at 16, they would get it at 24. For anyone over 32 they get to negotiate one last contract.

 

Dude, I'd be pretty scared of a Feinstein/Pelosi CB duo.

 

Bahahahaha

 

Maurice Edu looks tiny in that picture.

 

Word has it that Chris Christie is a hell of a goalkeeper...

 

Surprised nobody made use of the new logo to feature MLS up top with an outline of players with Picket signs in the lower area..

I hate MLS!! My country my league since the beginning, I want the bastard to succeed no matter how much it trips over itself..

 

For me, it's hard to see a path. MLS needs to make substantial improvements in television revenue and the EPL and the Champions League seem set to dominate in the US market. In Europe, the gap between the top european teams and the EPL and the bottom teams seem to be growing.

Of course, it all depends on what metric you use. At some point, the worst team in MLS might have better financials than the worst team in Italy or Spain, but at the top end, and I think it's the top for driving television revenue in the US, the gap is just so far.

 

That's all fine, the point is, both setting and making concrete, if slow, progress towards the goal of competing at that level is central to the narrative MLS sells to the American soccer consumer.

Changing that to "We're the minor leagues and we like it that way!" would be the end. That's not what a large chunk of the support signed up for.

 

The kid's been on the league since he was eight. Don't you think he deserves free agency?! For crying out loud, you're worse than commie-Nazi slaveowners.

 

Both right? Is this a trick question?

 

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Reliable sources inside MLS tell me as of now they will play this weekend no labor stoppage for opening weekend.

 

Not sure if that is sarcasm or not but obviously that was my point - it would be a little harsh if thatw ere the way it worked.

 

Reddit has sent flowers to both sides in hope of inspiring a deal. No, seriously. Just gotta get those negative vibes out of the air.

------RM

 

Is this guy a good source?
Great news if he is.

 

No 20-year-old is going to have been in the league very long, so they aren't going to get free agency under any proposal. The 28/8 or 27/7 ideas are about getting free agency for players who have been through at least a couple of contracts.

 

It was sarcasm.

But the fact that it's impossible for a 20-year-old to be a free agent shouldn't be surprising. The league isn't just going to open up free agency to everyone.

 

I'm not sure those eyes even close anymore. Crazy ass crooked #$%&#$#.