Javier Morales announcing his departure from Real Salt Lake on Thursday was the first shot fired in what is likely to be an explosive offseason in Sandy. For years we have all known that there would be a time when the core group of players that we have loved for so long would dwindle and eventually disappear.
This will happen in professional sports and we have been lucky to have so many of the guys stick around for as long as they have. We are a family and this is what we expect the club to do. There are, however, some drawbacks to keeping a core such as ours together for so long and refreshing the roster from time to time should not only be expected but encouraged.