Believe it or not, for the first time since the playoff chase became relevant this season, the Seattle Sounders have their postseason fate in their own hands.
Perhaps the strangest season in the Sounders’ MLS history could yet wind up with postseason soccer.
Seattle’s been through the ringer this year. Between the exit of longtime coach Sigi Schmid, the scary health troubles of Clint Dempsey, the summer swoon that saw the Sounders briefly dip into the Western Conference cellar to their stirring return to form, 2016 incinerated any semblance of a broader plan long ago.