Its about to get hella hyphy up in here

By: Melissa | November 10th, 2007

Greetings from beautiful Oakland, California!

With John Doyle and Frank Yallop now in charge and the expansion draft just around the corner, there seems to be enough movement in Silicon Valley to start an Earthquakes blog on this site. I frequently comment on some of the other MLS blogs here and am a somewhat irregular blogger for australia.worldcupblog.org so I figured - hey - those are qualifications enough… right? Anyways, the news I read Thursday morning (Landycakes recently had lunch with Yallop and other SJ staff members!), threw me into such an angry and frustrated yet confused state, that I immediately felt the need to have a forum to vent about all things Quakes. I may have lept first before thinking this through because I have not figured out how I’m going to justify blogging for San Jose while simultaneously rooting for Chivas USA (or as I lovingly call them - Baby Chivas), but I think I’ll just cross that bridge when I get there.

As the months roll on, I’ll be combing the internets for Earthquakes news and posting the interesting bits along with whatever completely subjective opinions I have… all the while waiting very impatiently for the 2008 season to begin. I’m personally looking forward to drunken Caltrain rides to “The Shaw” and (if the rumors are true) watching the biggest MLS rivalry ever ever ever recommence in the biggity O - Oakland! Hell yeah!

So I’m a Norcal native (I was ~30 miles from the epicenter during the Loma Prieta earthquake) and I’ve got just enough Bay Area cultural snobbery in me to refuse to order cable/satellite television meaning I’m currently on a quest to find a proper bar to watch the games at. Any East Bay readers are welcome to give me suggestions (preferably in or around the downtown area) and I predict there will be a bit of local love tossed around on this site from time to time. With that in mind, I encourage all Bay Area sports fans to visit my friends over at The Bay Easy for updates, predictions, or just random chit chat.

So here’s to the two time MLS champions expansion team!