Just two-thirds of the way through their expansion season, the Portland Timbers have already zoomed to dizzying heights and plummeted to depressing lows along withtheir raucous, rabid fans. Through it all, their excitable head coach, John Spencer, is always in the moment yet with one eye on the long-term.

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