Oakland gets the big games
By: Melissa | November 20th, 2007Today, the Quakes released their seating chart for season ticket holders and not so subtlety announced games will take place in both Santa Clara and Oakland. So its official: Galaxy and Chicago matches are going to be just a few BART stops away from my house and my favorite bars! Thats right Beckham y Blanco - welcome to The Town. Sure, San Francisco is a nice place to visit, but Oakland has a special kind of crazy effed up charisma that defies description. We hope you enjoy your stay.
Ok, so I promised a part 2 on the expansion draft but honestly, I’m beat and after reading Luis Bueno’s arguments that this draft will ultimately mean very little since hardly any of the expansion draft players remained on both the Toronto and Chivas inaugural squad… meh. Most of our guys will be gone before April anyways. Well, either way, I bet tomorrow’s draft party in San Ho will be good times. I won’t be able to make it but I’m sure the fine folks at Soccer Silicon Valley will post lots of cool pics from the event. Apparently, there will be some special guests in attendance so it may be a chance to play “spot the former player” while you listen to The Frank & Co talk about the draft and you nurse your draft. See that? Synergy.
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I’m not sure that Luis Bueno has it right that this draft will be like Toronto and Chivas. Chivas had the misfortune of entering with a partner and having the most restrictive expansion draft rules. Teams, I believe, were allowed to protect 13 players and all developmental players were exempt from being picked. Imagine if all the dev players on your lists weren’t available, then protect the two best available senior roster players on each team, then have every other team hit up first by Salt Lake. And that was when the league was less deep. Chivas got out of the hole faster due mainly to good drafting and good trading. Toronto has Canadian players as their native players so they were limited on how much they could make use of existing MLS talent. They also had an obsessive trader as coach.
You have better available players many of whom are domestic with a coach who has a rep of being pretty good with young american talent that has slipped through the cracks. Yallop will keep some of these guys.
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Interesting that the Fire (or rather Blanco) is considered a strong enough draw for the bigger stadium. I’ll have to make it out to the Bay Area for that one, wonder what kind of crowd it’ll draw.
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He’ll def keep some of them but absolutely not all of them and we’ve still got to get through any USL signings, the regular draft, the inevitable trades, and whoever Yallop may personally invite to camp next year. Yikes, thats a lot of possibilities.
The Quakes officially say 4 games in Oakland but I’m going out on a limb to assume they will be the LA and Chicago games. Oh and that crowd will include me… and hopefully one wicked tailgate.
EDIT: oh and I forgot to add that I often play “spot the FMF jersey” while going about my business. I think plenty of people will come out to cheer or boo Blanco around here.
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