MLS Commissioner Don Garber has seen the league through yet another potential work stoppage — at least for now — when the players and the owners revised the Collective Bargaining Agreement, yet again. Now all he has to do is get the league through 2021.
No small task considering the choppy seas he’ll have to sail through this year. With the coronavirus pandemic still ravaging the country and a labor fight to begin the year, Garber has already seen several changes to the 2021 calendar, chief among them pushing back the start of the season twice — from an initial target of early March to April 3 to the current scheduled opening on April 17.