Pre-draft musings

By: Melissa | January 17th, 2008

Firstoff, did anyone get a chance to go check out the vagina couch for sale on craigslist yesterday? The original cl post was removed, but thank goodness the Best Week Ever blog picked up on it (and included pictures!).

As for the Quakes, there have been a few articles this week discussing the Garcia trade. Namely, the Merc, while not outright declaring Yallop wasn’t pleased with this year’s draft offerings, does state:

Yallop said this year’s draft doesn’t have one great choice. “If you can get a good solid pro, you go with the known instead of the unknown,” the coach said.

So there’s really no larger deal in the works here. Our Gang just wasn’t particularly excited about the players at the Combine and instead of taking chances, figured acquiring Garcia was a better option to lock down the defense. And we’ve got one draft pick left – the first pick in the second round. Ives again, has his new and improved mock draft up which includes our lone pick and who we may try to grab.

So what does this mean? Well, I think Luis Bueno got it right when he took a stab at some analysis: “For San Jose, the trade is clear that Frank Yallop wants to win now.” The Quakes are carefully creating a strong team and smartly building from the back to the front. My question is, what do we have left to deal to acquire some ace strikers? All that remains is a lot of extra allocation money and one draft pick. Is that going to be enough to woo some goal scorers to the Bay? Are we going to have to trade more of our defense away? But trading anymore players seems an unlikely option since we were so quick to replace Goodson. I think Our Gang wants to keep the current roster intact.

In “players I’d like to see in a Quakes uniform” news, Nate Jaqua is looking into a possible move overseas (doh!) and Benny Feilhaber is maybe on his way to MLS. If the Feilhaber deal goes through, it will be interesting to see where he winds up. All I’m going to say about this right now is: we still have hella money and cap space to accommodate this guy! We can just stick him on the wing and let ‘er rip!

Ok, its almost time to get back to work so I’ll leave you with a short interview Joe Cannon did with the Merc a few days ago. If anyone is still worried his time with the Gals left him in need of a loooong vacation, its pretty obvious his move up north has totally rejuvenated him and he’s very excited to play for us again. Huzzah!