Only two short years ago, Joevin Jones and Harry Shipp seemed to be the future of the team the Sounders played on Saturday night.
The Chicago Fire were terrible in 2015, but they at least had youth. Shipp was a talented, goal-scoring homegrown from a nearby suburb who’d been a finalist for MLS Rookie of the Year the prior season. And Jones, a Trinidad & Tobago national team star, started 26 of 28 games for the Fire that season after being signed following a brief stint in Finland.
And then, in the blink of an eye, it was over.