If it were possible to have a moment of silence in writing, I would have one now, for all of you unfortunate bastards who, like myself, are so benighted as to be Timbers supporters.
As I have written before, it would be one thing if the Timbers were simply terrible; a disgrace of a side along the lines of last season's Chivas USA --completely demoralized and largely playing, each man not for the team, but rather, for a shot at continuing his career in some kind of hypothetical future-- but this is emphatically not the case at all.
In fact, to the contrary, the Timbers have executed the neat trick of looking great not only on paper, but also on the pitch, for the majority of their four matches thus far this season. This has had the unfortunate effect of raising the hopes and aspirations of Timbers fans in a way that a genuinely bad team would not, and as such, I would argue that the continual mixing of brilliance with resounding incompetence is that much harder to take.
But anyway. But nothing. But at least Darlington Nagbe is obviously one of the best players in all of MLS. But I swear, the Timbers reunited with Diego Valeri and Will Johnson will destroy.
Well, so we are told. It's hard to believe right now.
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