Of the hundreds of ways a season can end, only one of them leaves you happy. All the rest leave you sad. This is the story of one of those.
1) As sad and frustrating as the outcome was on Sunday night, the Timbers didn’t actually play that badly. They came out hard from the game’s opening whistle, looking for an early goal, and thoroughly owned the game’s first 20 minutes. Hell, you could say they owned the game’s first 90 minutes, but that takes us to a dark place. For now, let’s just appreciate how much danger the boys put the Dallas defense under and how many saves their keeper Jimmy Maurer had to make.