The Salt is a recurring column focused on opinion and analysis on the latest Real Salt Lake news from RSL Soapbox managing editor Matt Montgomery.
The 2020 MLS season was weird, remarkable, and in some ways disastrous for the league. While it was not necessarily my preference for teams to travel around the nation playing matches, especially considering the high number of players and staff that ended up with COVID-19, it did in some way represent momentum that the top brass were not keen to lose.
2021 is looking, in at least some ways, significantly better.