That the Sounders’ 1-0 loss to Real Salt Lake on Saturday afternoon at CenturyLink Field was bad is beyond dispute.



RSL isn’t very good, sitting in ninth place in a weak Western Conference. Salt Lake allowed four goals to the punchless Philadelphia Union the weekend prior — if Seattle couldn’t find the net against this particular opponent, one might wonder whether it is ever going to score again.



The predictable monotony of Saturday’s match was excruciating in its own way. The Sounders have now been shut out in seven of their ten MLS matches. They’ve scored just seven goals, total. Even Philly, the second-least-potent offense in the league, is in the double digits, with 12.



The more interesting question, to me at least, was where this loss ranked among the worst in modern Sounders history. If you’re going to sit through 90 minutes of mind-numbing, boring soccer, better to have them be extraordinarily mind-numbing, at...