Articles tagged with "song of the week"
San Jose v New England preview
By Melissa | May 14th, 2008Ok everybody, I think it's time to finally admit that after last weekend's game, we've hit rock bottom. And I can even say we hit it both literally and figuratively because our team is in last place and the fans watched the Quakes completely unravel ...
San Jose v Columbus preview
By Melissa | May 8th, 2008Ok guys. I had a fantastic preview post saved in my drafts, but wordpress decided to swallow it instead. Now I'm starting from scratch again. Here's the deal. Not only am I a complete luddite when it comes to crap like “User UI” and “WYSYWI ...
San Jose v New York preview
By Melissa | April 22nd, 2008I'm leaving town this weekend so you get the preview a bit early. And what's in store for us against the Red Bulls? We beat them once in pre-season and then we lost our mojo. But we got it back on Saturday against Colorado so I'm crossing my finge ...
San Jose v Colorado preview
By Melissa | April 17th, 2008A couple of stiff drinks at the bar on Saturday and this game will be like buttah. The MLS scheduling daemons couldn't be more cruel this time around. We're up against the current Western Conference champions and our new offensive help won't be ava ...
San Jose v Chicago Preview
By Melissa | April 11th, 2008Here's my attempt at a proper and thorough preview of Saturday's game. After last week's fiasco, we will – uh, not necessarily win this one, but we will certainly perform better if A) our central defenders and "the David Beckham of San Jose" colle ...
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 ...
Is “our little expansion team” a good nickname or bad?
By Melissa | March 26th, 2008I know the season is upon us because Luis Bueno created a new “2008 rankings” tag on the Sideline Views blog and posted his first list. San Jose is dead last. But, Bueno added the quip: “Only one way to go.” Double true. There are a handf ...
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
If you listen closely, you can hear the emo girls cry
By Melissa | March 18th, 2008Here are your Tuesday Earthquakes odds & ends to get you through the day. * Last night, I had a fit of inspiration and wrote up my season preview for the club. Go check it out. I'm really happy with it. * Jamil Walker is in training camp with
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
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
Um... ew
By Melissa | March 11th, 2008Readers, I'd like for you to take a long hard look at the picture to the left and for f*cks sake, please tell me how anyone could possibly find that food item appealing. And, no, I cannot imagine a person with “the munchies” even remotely craving th
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
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
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
Who doesn't have a crush on Joe Cannon?
By Melissa | February 15th, 2008I urge you to immediately stop whatever you are doing and check out Cannon's latest blog on the official Quakes website. Its HIGH-larious. Gone is the sad sentimentalism of his first entry. Instead, our Joe is thoughtful yet excited and even a tad sill
Nothin' going on but the rent
By Melissa | February 8th, 2008I'll be in San Jose today and tomorrow. Unfortunately, while I'm there, I won't be able to do anything that might benefit this blog since its just a work trip. So no checking out Shawesome Stadium or chatting with a ticket rep at the Quakes' offices. I
Beuler? Beuler?
By Melissa | January 30th, 2008So far, not a peep from our team this week. Oh well. Here's some news to tide us over: * Camp starts Feb 4th at the 49ers practice facility in Santa Clara. No official word whether its open to the public (but it probably is). * And the pre-season
Is everyone excited to see Sylar play Spock?
By Melissa | January 20th, 2008Because something is not logical in Quake-land. The date's been set for the friendly against DC United in San Luis Obispo: February 19th. That's less than a month away and Our Gang has yet to complete the roster. At this rate, the team will maybe get a
Mark your calendars: Draft Party, January 18th
By Melissa | January 11th, 2008I'm starting to wonder if the return of Major League Soccer to San Jose is really an excuse to encourage us all to start drinking before noon. Well, I can't really complain. On Friday, January 18th, starting around 11am, the Quakes are hosting a SuperDr
You can't spell mullets without MLS
By Melissa | December 30th, 2007Ok seriously, I can't take credit for the awesome title. I nicked it off a comment over at Sacha Kljestan's myspace page. Anyhooo, I've spent the last two weeks in bed with the flu from hell followed by a trip to Southern California where my family spen
Its Combine Time
By Melissa | December 19th, 2007Well, I got that evil, terrible flu thats been going around. If at all possible, quarantine yourself from life immediately to avoid this one. I'm going to assume our Quakes took the necessary precautions because its full speed ahead for this week's Comb
Benny come home
By Melissa | December 11th, 2007I read a very depressing blurb on today's DuNord and my heart sank. Benny Feilhaber - Derby County - did not dress, and his team lost 4-1 at Manchester United. The coaching change does not appear to have made any difference on the field, and Benny is n
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