Articles tagged with "local-love"
What?!?! No Game?!?!?!
By Melissa | September 18th, 2008Many thanks to Ian for his recent Playoff Pulse update as well as his suggestions for things to do this weekend because the away game ...
The Part Where I Write a Review or Something
By Melissa | September 14th, 2008Twitter has changed my life. For reals. Basically, anything that I can accomplish via text message is a win win situation for me. ...
Song of the Week?
By Melissa | September 12th, 2008It's been a while and we are in the crunch time to the playoffs so every result counts. Song of the Week? Local ...
Every Time a Person Stops Writing About the San Jose Earthquakes, God Kills a Kitten
By Melissa | September 10th, 2008I'm pretty sure the Earthquakes PR department does not read this blog but it is a weird coincidence that I wrote this little bit of ...
Soccer Saturday was in full effect yesterday
By Melissa | May 18th, 2008In the course of a few hours I wound up following three different soccer games in three different cities: the Quakes/Revs game in Foxborough, the ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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), ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For sale: one sports team
By Melissa | March 5th, 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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
I love lamp
By Melissa | March 2nd, 2008I spent much of this past weekend on a huge project for work. At one point, we got stuck troubleshooting precious precious IChat behind ...
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