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The Quakes had 3 picks in the 2012 SuperDraft. In their first pick they selected a Generation Adidas forward from UC Santa Barbara, Sam Garza (seen above), with the No. 6 overall pick. The team picked up Jacob Hustedt, midfielder, from the University of Washington with the 25th pick (6th in round 2) and Chris Blais, goalkeeper, from the University of South Florida with the 33rd pick (14th in round 2).
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Hey look, it’s Krazy George! Cracked.com ran an article titled “5 Sports Fans Who Ruined Sports” and coming in at number 4 was Krazy George. What did Krazy George ruin? Apparently the sanity of head coaches of most sporting teams.
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The Montreal Impact selected Bobby Burling in the expansion draft yesterday. Head coach Jesse Marsch played with Burling on Chivas USA from 2007 to 2009. Marsch played as a defensive midfielder and Burling played as a defender while on Chivas USA. As such, Marsch was happy to select Burling during the expansion draft. Marsh selected and traded for a solid back line as he prepares for 2012.
It was confirmed yesterday by GM John Doyle that the Quakes would not pick up the option on Bobby Convey’s contract. This unfortunate because Convey is a good player, being named to the All-Star Team the last 2 years and winning Comback Player of the Year in 2010. Unfortunately Frank Yallop and Convey had a falling out this last year and Doyle thought Convey wasn’t playing to the ability his salary required. As such his option on the contract won’t be picked up and he’ll enter the Re-Entry Draft later in December. The final blow because of this move is that the Quakes won’t be able to get any money out of a potential trade.
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Yes, that’s a rendering of the new Quakes stadium that I at least haven’t seen yet. It comes courtesy of the San Jose Planning Department, by way of CenterLineSoccer.com. A public hearing at city hall on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. will be held to determine whether or not the Planning Department accepts the permit for the stadium. There was a community meeting in September for residents to voice concerns about the stadium. As such, the Earthquakes organization pulled plans to host concerts at the new stadium due to noise pollution. If all goes according to plan, the Director of the Planning Department will approve the permit and after a 2 week, successful appeal, the Earthquakes can finally start moving on building the stadium.
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Whaaaaaaat?! 2 posts in 2 days? What’s going on?
Yeah, as soon as I make my triumphant return to blogging, some big news drops 2 hours after I update and post. Oh well. The Quakes released their protected list last night and some interesting names are on the list and off the list. We’ll look at the lists after the jump.
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… of the 2011 MLS Season as we know it. Welcome back everyone! Sorry I’ve been gone so long, school and work have been taxing but I should have managed my time a little better to make a few posts before now, so for that I am sorry. I’m not leaving the blog yet, and with the offseason upon us now week long absences between posts isn’t too out of the question until preseason training picks up in February. But like last preseason I’ll try to post something at least once a week and once big news items pop up. I do have a couple of interesting things to talk about today though.
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Seattle bids an MLS regular season adieu to Kasey Keller tonight in front of 60,000 plus at Century Link Field while the Quakes and Chris Wondolowski hope to spoil Keller’s regular season swan song tonight. Seattle has locked up a playoff spot in the Western Conference and San Jose has locked up a showing in MLS 2012, since there’s no relegation you see.
What the Quakes do have a chance to play for is the defense of both the Heritage Cup and the Golden Boot for Wondo. The Heritage Cup is a trophy that the supporters for San Jose and Seattle came up with in 2009. It’s a competition amongst the teams in MLS who kept their identities from their NASL days. Last year the Quakes took home the Cup. Vancouver and Portland have the opportunity to join in the Heritage Cup but at least for this year, they passed on the opportunity. Seeing as how Portland, Seattle and Vancouver compete in the Cascadia Cup, it’s not surprising.
The Quakes can also help Wondo defend his Golden Boot award from last year. As of 20 minutes ago, Wondo found himself in 2nd in the race as Dwayne De Rosario scored his 15th of the season on a penalty kick for DC in their 2-1 loss to Chicago. But on a slightly good note, Thierry Henry, who is tied with Wondo at 14 goals, was ejected with a red card during the game against Sporting KC. This means that he will miss out on New York’s final game of the season, effectively canceling him out. Of course there are still some others behind Wondo and Henry, the most dangerous being Landon Donovan.
Depite being 1 behind of De Rosario now, Wondo still has a good shot at overtaking him. It’s possible that the Sounders will trot out a mix of A and B teams tonight since they don’t really have to worry about losing their second place spot unless they lose their next 2 games by huge margins. The Quakes can take advantage of this and hopefully put on a good show and possibly get Wondo some goals tonight. The Quakes don’t have to win necessarily, Keller deserves a good final MLS regular season game, but they could give Wondo some goals too, I’m just saying.
Game starts in 45 minutes on FSC.
GO QUAKES!
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The New England Revolution hosted the San Jose Earthquakes Saturday night in a make up game from early August. New England was eliminated from the playoffs a few weeks ago, and in a strange circumstance, the Quakes needed Los Angeles to secure a win or at least draw against New York during the week to keep their playoffs hopes alive. Read the rest of this entry »
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted and I’m sorry for that. I’ve started a new school year and it’s pretty demanding so most nights I’ve been studying with little time to sit down and write up a post. Up next for the Quakes is a home game against Sporting KC. Sporting is on top of the Eastern Conference at this point in the season while the Quakes are still fighting for the 10th and last playoff spot.
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At a sold out Buck Shaw Stadium, the Quakes were finally able to end their 13 game winless streak last night against the Chicago Fire. In the third match against Chicago this season the Quakes triumphed where they had previously fallen short. The Fire beat the Quakes on penalty kicks in a US Open Cup game in June at home and in their first MLS meeting 4 days after the USOC match, the teams drew 2-2. President Dave Kaval was able to make good on his promise to “bury the streak” after last night’s game.
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