Articles tagged with "local love"
We may be in the cellar but we are going to make the most of it
By Melissa | May 13th, 2008If you watched Saturday's game, you know there were a lot of corner kicks. There were so many corner kicks, our little section wondered if the Quakes were in the process of breaking a new record. Well whaddya know, we did! The Earthquakes and Co ...
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 ...
Little bits
By Melissa | May 5th, 2008Odds & Ends I guess. I am horribly behind on life right now. Spent all day yesterday in San Mateo at the Maker Faire. As it turns out, our project won the Editor's Choice blue ribbon. Exciting stuff. Here's some other crap that's been on my ...
San Jose v Dallas preview
By Melissa | May 1st, 2008Finally, the Buck Shaw home game is here. Finally, there's a reason for me to go to San Jose that doesn't involve sitting in a data center for hours on end. Finally, the weather has cooled down enough for me to rock a neon blue wig at this thing. ...
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 ...
Good news for me AND good news for the Quakes
By Melissa | April 16th, 2008If you've been living under a rock, then you don't know we just acquired Jean-Philippe Peguero on loan from the Danish club Brondby. All I gotta say about this news is: Doyle does not f*ck around y'all! This dude is a goal scoring machine! Lessie ...
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 ...
Need a bar in the East Bay with Direct Kick
By Melissa | April 9th, 2008So now's the time for a healthy dose of positive affirmations brought to you by the good folks at The Offsides. I've got a new dilemma so I'm asking the internets for help on this. Turns out a small group of San Jose and Chicago supporters want to ...
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 ...
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 ...
When you diss Dre you diss yourself
By Melissa | March 31st, 2008I don't know if you've been following the news of a more pop-culture variety so you may or may not know that one of the best television shows of all time is about to be redone for US audiences. The remake certainly looks to be an epic trainwreck tha ...
Odds & Ends
By Melissa | March 27th, 2008Here are your Earthquakes odds and ends to get you through the rest of the week in anticipation for the MLS season to finally effin begin already. * My two current favorite Quakes old and new are featured in different articles. Andrew Hush at MLS ...
Coffee with Doyle?
By Melissa | March 22nd, 2008I think many of us got a pretty interesting email in our Inboxes yesterday. Turns out, Soccer Silicon Valley has a new incentive plan for members to recommend new season ticket buyers. If we hit certain marks, we get a few gifts that I have to say are v
I will kick your prom king ass
By Melissa | March 13th, 2008Here are Thursday's Earthquakes Odds & Ends to get you through the day: * According to the economic impact summary for the proposed SSS (and my fandom certainly DOES NOT extend to reading that thing) the new stadium will include a concert stage. P
35th most powerful blog? Really?
By Melissa | March 12th, 2008Wow, congrats to us. And with that in mind, its time to finally get down to business and focus on poignant, serious, and informative posts about the subject manner at hand. So lets begin: * On May 6th, the Quakes will play Stanford University. * T
Another slow news day
By Melissa | March 11th, 2008I'm 99% positive my friend took this photo during Oakland's first Fridays pretentious self-congratulatory art walk sh*t-fest. Can you tell I am not a fan? There are so many terrible things I want to say about this picture right now (but not about my fri
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
Roberto Mina?
By Melissa | March 7th, 2008Goff reports Dallas wants to trade him and we may be interested. He's out of contract so we'd be trading for his MLS rights and immediately negotiating again. On top of that, he's apparently already got an offer waiting for him in Argentina and, as far
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
Meh
By Melissa | March 6th, 2008Looks like there's no new news in the Yay today. I'm currently trying to find out if this scrimmage against UC Berkeley is for realsies happening tomorrow since the calbears site is eerily quiet on the subject. I've sent a few emails out so maybe I'll g
For sale: one sports team
By Melissa | March 6th, 2008Don't panic, its not the Earthquakes. Rather, the new Women's Professional Soccer League is looking for someone to own and operate a Bay Area team. According to Commissioner Tonya Antonucci, the price is somewhere between $1.9 million to $2.8 million an
What's next for the Scoobies
By Melissa | March 5th, 2008Ok, so the metaphor is back. I can't help but think of it every time I discuss our coaching staff... so it stays. I'm also a fan of associating our guys with this. My thinking here has everything to do with comparing San Jose to Los Angeles and nothing
Leetle things
By Melissa | March 4th, 2008All is seemingly quiet today. Kelly Gray got waived and I guess we didn't pick him up? I am of the opinion we don't need him but I'm still a bit sad we didn't just grab him anyways. I don't know if he'll wind up with another team or just focus on his o
Did the Quakes woo-ed any fans yesterday?
By Melissa | March 3rd, 2008I think my favorite part about yesterday's game was an incident at the Coliseum bart station. It was packed with fans and subsequently loong lines to buy bart tickets. One extremely out of place looking guy was in line and on the phone. When I walked p
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
News News News
By Melissa | February 29th, 2008Federico Arias didn't work out and is no longer training with the Quakes. Doyle is looking for “the right forward if we need one at all” which means folks like Smarte are still in the running (yay). Doyle on the DP slot: "We're looking to find o
Ronnie be here... (the aftermath)
By Melissa | February 28th, 2008There are a handful of upcoming events I'm crazy excited about, high on this list is and Also, our Quakes finally putting together a potent OFFENSE and I think this is the year O'Brien shakes those pesky injuries and gets back to his “Dall
For Sale
By Melissa | February 26th, 2008I should perhaps make a craigslist posting but I figure I'll try here first. I've got two extra tickets to Sunday's Mexico v Australia game for sale. They are $24 each and in section 106 (row 20something). Looking at the Oakland Coliseum seating chart,
Can they really call it a Pub Crawl?
By Melissa | February 25th, 2008I'm still waiting rather impatiently for the supposed new player signing news. In the meantime, the official Quakes site announced there will be more Pub Crawl events this week and next. Tuesday, February 26 – 8:00 p.m. Rosie McCann's Irish Pub &am
Save the HULK
By Melissa | February 22nd, 2008The latest Joe Cannon blog is up on the official Quakes site. He doesn't really spend a lot of time commenting on last week's games against Houston. Instead it's full speed ahead with pre-season (although he does give a little shout out to Saturday's Pu
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