SEATTLE — There’s a saying that can be applied in all sorts of situations: “Fake it till you make it.” The idea being that sometimes you may not want to do something, but you do it anyway because you know you should, and eventually it starts to happen naturally. I suspect we’re seeing that manifest within the Seattle Sounders around Leagues Cup.
The faking it part — if it happened at all — came long ago when the Sounders first found out they were participating. Whether they really wanted to play in the tournament or not, they made a collective decision to act as though they did.