Editor’s note: This is a guest column as Sounder at Heart looks to amplify a variety of community voices in the run-up to MLS Cup. Joe Veyera is a local journalist and editor at Seattle-based breaking news technology company Factal.
If you’ve spent any length of time as a Seattle sports fan, you know this isn’t normal.
Conference titles, championship games, these are achievements celebrated elsewhere.
And when fate does smile down upon us, success is fleeting.
The 1995-96 Sonics ran into the buzzsaw of the Jordan-era Bulls. The 2001 Mariners hold the record for most regular-season wins, but fell short of the World Series.