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MLS rejects MLSPA CBA proposal, moves closer to locking out players, cuts off own nose

In case you were worried that MLS finally figured out how to get out of its own way, don’t worry — they’re still running into rakes left and right.

But now, those rakes happened to be perched at the end of a cliff, and the league is about to smack itself in the head hard enough to fall off the edge, Wile E. Coyote style.

And just like the cartoon, it really has no one to blame but itself.

The saga of renegotiating the CBA that kicked off last month by the league invoking force majeure has ignited a firestorm.