Articles tagged with "game time"
The game in pictures + some observations
By Melissa | May 11th, 2008I'll start off with my personal highlight of the match: Crew dude getting smacked in the face by a giant Microsoft sign. Ha Ha. (Does it make me a terrible person because I laugh at the misfortune of others?) ------------------------------ ...
Essay time
By Melissa | May 7th, 2008I keep forgetting to mention on this here blog that I went ahead and started the Women's Professional Soccer blog a few days ago. I'm secretly hoping I can grow it to look like the MLS page here – with individual blogs for each team. So please st ...
Still no mojo
By Melissa | May 4th, 2008So we walked away without a goal but so did Dallas. I think out of all the match reports I've read, Embele Awipi put it best: Quakes keep shooting blanks in tie with Dallas. We created lots and lots of chances throughout the game, but yet again, co ...
Player theme songs
By Melissa | May 3rd, 2008It was an entire day of tailgating (pictures coming soon), thanks to the hospitality of a Santa Clara resident who lives mere blocks from the University. On the ride home, we rocked the driver's ipod and came up with theme songs for a few players. ...
Last night, we got our asses beat and I saw a fantastic movie
By Melissa | May 1st, 2008I was on my way to The Parkway and I got this text message from a friend: The report from Salt Lake is that your own guys are running into and injuring each other and RSL is up 3-0 Turns out her friend was at the game and reporting back via tex ...
Did ya miss me? Oh, and we lost
By Melissa | April 28th, 2008Hello everybody! Its been a tough couple of days without the internet at my disposal but now I'm back in the Bay Area and back to regularly checking The MLS Offside blogs a kajillion times a day. Lucky for me, over the weekend, my friend kept me up ...
Vote Kamara's goal Goal of the Week!
By Melissa | April 21st, 2008So far he only has 7% of the votes and stupid Landycakes is winning. WRONG. Head on over to the official Quakes site to vote and vote often. In the meantime, please enjoy the highlights from Saturday's game. Not featured in the highlights ...
Cancel the Viagra prescription, we scored (twice!)
By Melissa | April 19th, 2008I guess we actually scored three times but a few of us in the bar weren't sure why the Glinton goal got recalled (handball?). And after the recall, did it not cross your mind that maybe some asshole put San Jose under a freaky voodoo curse? Anyways ...
About that not-goal
By Melissa | April 13th, 2008“I’m definitely not going to be logging on to any blogs anytime soon, so please be nice — I’m sorry I missed,” said Salinas half-joking. “I really do feel bad. I feel like I cost the team a point, and I won’t miss again.” -- Center Li ...
Wow we lost but that was so much fun
By Melissa | April 12th, 2008I'm not entirely sure how many hours we wound up tailgating on that effin pavement in the effin parking lot. Whatever. Pictures should be coming soon. I'm still a bit drunk so here's the game analysis I can pull out of my drunk ass right now: Sh ...
Fingers Crossed
By Melissa | April 10th, 2008I'm supposed to call Ricky's later today and ask Ricky if his bar will show Saturday's MLS games. Wish me luck. Are you a morning person? Well you are in luck. Saturday's itinerary begins at 10:30am right when the Coliseum gates open. I think ...
Hmmmmmmmm
By Melissa | April 7th, 2008I know lots and lots of people are really excited about Saturday's pre-game events so I'm going to keep the snark to a minimum. Here's what we get to look forward to (besides the footie): * A special Earthquakes video on the stadium big screen ( ...
Deer in headlights
By Melissa | April 4th, 2008Note to ESPN2: not enough bench shots. Also, I don't care if Bob Bradley is eating a hamburger unless he's feeding it to Posh Spice. Ok, so I started reading all the articles on last night's game but screw it. I don't care if that offsides c ...
Well that sucked
By Melissa | April 3rd, 2008Basically, the highlight of the night was when my friend (who doesn't follow soccer) showed up to the bar, saw Landon Donovan and immediately announced he looked just like Tailor Made. Also, the bartender says we can come back to the bar eve ...
Its on bitches!
By Melissa | April 2nd, 2008After I left that Quakes v UC Berkeley scrimmage a few weeks ago, I took Bart home. While waiting on the platform for my train, I saw a dude walk by wearing a Beckham LA Galaxy zip up jacket thingamabob. I was initially shocked because I seriously ...
Lucas checks in from Portland
By Melissa | March 31st, 2008So first we had the LOLcats, about a week ago I posted a LOLrabbit (and just wait til I bust out with the LOLsloth), and now I give you a LOLfault. Yup, today I found a geology blog thats filled with photos of California's major fault lines meaning ...
We beat Portland, now we're off to crush the Galaxy
By Melissa | March 29th, 2008Goals from Kei Kamara and Shea Salinas put the final score at 2-1. A match report from OurSports Central is here. A very detailed match report of the reserves game against the Pilots is here. Good 'ol Roblar at bigsoccer has already updated that f ...
MLS 2008 season is (almost) here!
By Melissa | March 28th, 2008Kickoff is 1pm this Saturday (tomorrow!) and if all goes according to plan, my ass will be firmly planted in a chair at the Pig and Whistle. And I'm not gonna move it until the random dudes on television stop kicking that little round ball back and ...
And the dancing? Midseason form
By Melissa | March 24th, 2008So my co-worker just reminded me I am supposed to spend all day in the office today. There are a few new Quakes articles out there in internet-land and I'll try to get something up about them after I get home. Until then, enjoy the highlights of Saturda
The Earthquakes have an Easter present for you
By Melissa | March 23rd, 2008And your gift is... a 3-0 pounding of the NY Red Bulls! Happy Easter everyone. So we've got just one more friendly to go (Portland) before we kick off the MLS season in LA and against LA. I'm feeling positive. I'm feeling hopeful. And I'm feeling a
Carolina Wrap-up
By Melissa | March 20th, 2008Wow – check out all the press for our little expansion team! We've got articles in the Merc, the SF Chronicle, and Soccer America just to start. And The Bay Soccer already has their match report up and Soccer Spin collected some nice post-match quotes
I think we just won the Challenge Cup
By Melissa | March 20th, 2008Even if NY wipes the pitch with our collective asses on Saturday, they cannot accrue more points than what we walked away with tonight (anyone is, of course, welcome to prove me wrong). So does this mean we get the MLS Cup or the Supporter's Shield for 2
Earthquakes (& a tornado!) 1 – Toronto FC 0
By Melissa | March 17th, 2008Last night in Oakland, before heading out to a mostly forgettable house party, a friend and I stopped at a convenience store so she could pick up a Sparks (bleach!). The dude working at the counter was watching Pumas v Atlante on a little tv and for a f
Congratulations Shea!
By Melissa | March 15th, 2008The official Quakes site has yet to update their roster page (it's the weekend so I'll cut them some slack) but yesterday the Merc reported our Shea Salinas finally signed a contract with the club. The speedy midfielder and perpetual nice guy told the ne
I'm an idiot (with an UPDATE)
By Melissa | March 11th, 2008The USL site is streaming the Quakes v Toronto Carolina Cup game at 3pm on Saturday. They've moved the links to their streams over to the main USL Live page. Ok everyone in the Bay Area, pool your collective techie minds and start figuring out how to tu
My mind was just officially blown
By Melissa | March 9th, 2008Daylight what? I have no idea what time it is. Anyhoo, over at bigsoccer, a user named Roblar went ahead and posted the most amazing update on the current state of the Earthquakes roster that I have no other option than to post this person's post so her
Can we get the names on the jerseys already?
By Melissa | March 8th, 2008Friday afternoon, the Quakes beat UC Berkeley 3-0 with all the goals scored by the reserves squad during the second half. I can't find an official game report so its almost as if the thing never took place. Well, I was there and I swear it really happen
I lied
By Melissa | March 6th, 2008Ok, I'm back. Tomorrow's scrimmage is 2pm at the Golden Bear Soccer Field. I believe the field is the Track/Soccer Field picture in the map below. See all you SF Bay suckers, who don't have real jobs, there tomorrow. Oh and one last thing, the n
I love lamp
By Melissa | March 3rd, 2008I spent much of this past weekend on a huge project for work. At one point, we got stuck troubleshooting precious precious IChat behind the company's brand spanking new firewall. Frustrations grew very quickly but when my co-worker randomly announced
Final score? naught naught
By Melissa | February 24th, 2008Thats what Goff reports. There appears to be no further information on today's match against DC United other than his words: 0-0 final in the rain on a muddy pitch. San Jose hit the post late in the match. Oh wait – there's a report from bigsocce
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