For those who weren't playing attention, the MLS had its annual day off a while back. Nevertheless, it's easy to tell the new season is here: The Sounders are dorking around.

Knowing they were stuck playing three games in six days, they ran out a bit of an exhibition-game lineup Sunday afternoon that helped give an expansion franchise a first-game win at a place where road teams go to die.

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Reversal of fortunes is a phenomenon to which most can relate. None can relate more than the Seattle Sounders, who 364 days after defeating Toronto FC on penalty kicks at BMO Field in the 2016 MLS Cup, were soundly beaten on the same field by the same team for the same trophy.

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The Seattle Sounders went through their annual media day at CenturyLink Field Wednesday, demonstrating through discourse and action that the club still seeks for 2018 to be one of the most visible clubs in the world.

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Sounders striker Jordan Morris will miss the entire 2018 season after tearing the ACL in his right knee during a CONCACAF Champions League game Thursday in El Salvador. The injury occurred in the 85th minute of Seattle's 2-1 loss to Santa Tecla FC. Morris' father, team doctor Michael Morris, made the ACL tear diagnosis immediately.

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The Sounders Tuesday signed MF/F Lamar Neagle of Federal Way and goalkeeper Calle Brown to contracts for the 2018 season, which gets underway Thursday in El Salvador against Santa Tecla FC in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League. Neagle, the No. 4 goal scorer in franchise history, is returning for his seventh season.

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The Sounders Tuesday signed midfielder Alex Roldan and defender Jordan McCrary to the club's first-team roster. The Sounders selected Roldan, younger brother of midfielder Cristian Roldan, with the 22^nd overall pick in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft out of Seattle University, while McCrary joins the club following a successful preseason trial after playing the 2017 season with Toronto FC II.

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The Sounders Tuesday signed midfielder Magnus Wolff Eikrem, a 27-year-old Norwegian international who comes to Seattle after nine professional years in Europe, in which he was a part of four league titles, including Allsvenskan championships the past two seasons with Swedish side Malmö FF.

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The Sounders Friday selected two players on the first day of the 2018 MLS SuperDraft at the Philadelphia Convention center, taking Seattle University midfielder Alex Roldan -- younger brother of Sounders midfielder Cristian Roldan -- with the 22^nd pick in the first round and Duke defender Markus Fjortoft with the 22^nd choice  of the second round (45^th overall).

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Beginning their 10th MLS season, the two-time defending Western Conference champion Seattle Sounders open 2018 against the expansion Los Angeles FC at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 4, on ESPN, one of 13 games nationally televised in the 34-game schedule announced Thursday by MLS.

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It’s been a busy first few days of the off-season for the Seattle Sounders. The club exercised 11 contract options, declined another, had four players out of contract and lost its primary backup goalkeeper, Tyler Miller, to Los Angeles FC in the expansion draft. Thursday, the club announced it had acquired defender Waylon Francis from the Columbus Crew for $50,000 in allocation money.

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TORONTO – Bullied in the midfield, then bent and broken at the back.

In their second consecutive MLS Cup final against Toronto FC, the Sounders were stopped cold. After not conceding a goal in a playoff-record 706 minutes, Seattle gave way in the second half, and dreams of repeating slipped away in a 2-0 loss at BMO Field.

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TORONTO – Ahead of the Sounders' final practice of the year Friday, something needed to be done to ease the stress of defending their MLS championship in the the same place it was won, at BMO Field. So Roman Torres, to the delight of all, decided to re-enact his championship-winning penalty kick that brought Seattle its first title.

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For the second year in a row, the Seattle Sounders are bound for the MLS Cup finals in Toronto. An early goal in the second leg of the Western Conference finals Thursday put things in cruise control, and Seattle finished off the depleted Houston Dynamo, 3-0, and 5-0 on aggregate.

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In mid-May, the Sounders lost a third consecutive game (3-0 to Sporting Kansas City) to drop to 2-5-4, a certain sign that the perils of defending an MLS championship had consigned them to the hellfires of soccer condemnation.

"We had some dark days then," said coach Brian Schmetzer.

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After a convincing 2-0 win on the road in the first leg of the Western Conference finals, the Seattle Sounders seem poised to push through for a MLS Cup rematch in Canada Dec. 9 after Toronto FC defeated the Columbus Crew in the Eastern finals Wednesday. Coach Brian Schmetzer isn’t letting his team sleep on the Houston Dynamo, despite the fact that his side hasn’t conceded a goal in its last 452 minutes of play.

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Entering the first leg of the MLS Western Conference finals Tuesday, the Sounders had never won a match against the Dynamo in Houston. Thanks to an early goal and a crucial penalty kick decision, the Sounders filled in that blank in their history, and took a large step toward returning to the MLS Cup finals with a 2-0 victory in front of a record sellout crowd (22,667) at BBVA Compass Stadium.

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After a two-week break for international play, the Seattle Sounders take on the Houston Dynamo in a two-leg series for a shot at a second consecutive MLS Cup. After defeating Cascadia rival Vancouver 2-0 in aggregate in the semifinals, the Sounders play the first match against the Dynamo in Houston at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (FS1).

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Major League Soccer Wednesday named Clint Dempsey of the Sounders, who missed the club's championship playoff run last year after he was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat, as the 2017 Comeback Player of the Year. Dempsey scored 12 regular-season goals and five assists. He was the second player in franchise history, following Eddie Johnson in 2012, to win the award.

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It may have seemed normal. Clint Dempsey certainly wanted it to seem normal, saying, "I don't look at it like I missed out." But when the Sounders' superstar bagged both scores in the 2-0 triumph over Vancouver Thursday night at the Clink that put the Sounders in the Western Conference finals, it was a large matter beyond the victory.

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Clint Dempsey had not scored a goal in the playoffs for the Seattle Sounders since 2015, but only because he hadn’t had the opportunity. After missing all of the 2016 playoffs due to a heart condition, and the first game of this season's conference semifinals due to a red card, Dempsey made up for lost time Thursday night. The 34-year-old scored two second-half goals to propel the Sounders past the Vancouver Whitecaps and into the Western Conference finals for a second consecutive year.

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