Some new rules were announced this weekend that will take effect for the next MLS season.

Teams will be able to have one designated superstar spot on their roster. The league will pay up to 400K/season for that player, the club is responsible for the rest. This gets teams around the salary cap for situations like LA wanting to get David Beckham. Each team gets one superstar allocation, which can be traded, but no team can have more than 2.

With the addition of Toronto to the league, I had thought they would go to a single table and not have the east/west division. But instead they plan to keep everything the same and then add Toronto to the east. Playoffs are messed up too. Top 2 teams from each division go to the playoff, in addition to 4 wildcard teams. And hopefully in 2008 only the east division will add a designated hitter, for the situation that a game goes to a shootout, and the goalkeeper is supposed to shoot, in comes the designated hitter to take that shot for the keeper! stupid….

but one good thing they did was worked out some deal so that 100% of the games are going to be televised lived. I doubt that will benefit me too much, but that would be awfully cool to be able to choose what game(s) I wanted to watch each weekend instead of letting espn/fox soccer channel decide for me.