Sounders: In no shape yet for a playoff

The Sounders are hungrily eyeing a European player, but if he doesn't make the jump they may be left in the lurch.
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Sounders fans braved the rain in record numbers.

The Sounders are hungrily eyeing a European player, but if he doesn't make the jump they may be left in the lurch.

Just ahead of Sounders FC's opener Saturday at the Clink for their fifth Major League Soccer regular season, it feels as if the club is in the middle of a checked swing. Wrong sport, but you get the idea. They haven't taken a full cut. Yet general manager Adrian Hanauer claims to be close to a rip.Crosscut archive image.

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