Uh, Where Did the Bloggers Go?

By: Melissa | July 10th, 2008

Hello Sean & Ian? You still around? Seriously guys, don’t punk out on The Offside. I even sent Sean a Facebook message demanding he not punk out on The Offside. Don’t do it. See, I’m quite happy and settled over at the WPS Offside now and I’ve almost completely stopped reading up on the Quakes. Also, I’m pretty dern excited about tonight’s Classico, which between Razov and Donovan, should bring hella drama (and goals). Ok, so while I wait rather impatiently for one or both of the for realsies Quakes bloggers to come back and tell me what’s up with the team, I’ll try to give an update of what I remember from the past few weeks:

Ronnie O’Brien is going to single-handedly win the league for the Quakes. I think the folks working the cameras know by now to just point those cameras at him and roll. At times, he seems to be the only one doing anything out there.

The camera-folks also seem to guarantee at least one male model shot of Ian Russell per game (yo, not complaining). I think if this whole Earthquakes thing doesn’t work out for him, he can eek out a living doing Sears catalogs and such.

Yallop should put the suit back on. No reason. Let’s just spice it up a a bit from time to time.

I was at Ricky’s for the RSL game (Ricky totally hooked us up btw), and the woman sitting next to me started calling John Cunliffe “sweetie.” …and at that moment, a new nickname was born. Also, the woman sitting on the other side of me saw Troy Dayak on the tv and immediately announced he looked like a stripper. Great game.

Speaking of Dayak, it’s a crime against humanity he isn’t in the ESPN booth doing color commentary already.

I was at the Kezar Pub for the DC United game. I wound up stealing Yuri Morales’ seat but he was surprisingly cordial about the situation. There were also 50 bajillion other people in that bar to watch the Spain/Italy Euro game. I had the special: the bbq pork sandwich, which was very tasty and helped me get through watching the utter beat down from DC and especially that Emilio. Grrrrr.

Tim Hainley does not like Chivas USA. His game preview last week was a painful read indeed. He does like that Sacha tho.

I’m missing Saturday’s game against the Rapids. My friend is having a bbq that night and he’s serving smoked pork (see a pattern?) and his homebrew. And seriously, this guy knows pork and beer. He will rattle on and on about those topics for hours. Sometimes, when he gets started, I just gotta walk away. Sorry Quakes. Can’t miss this one.

Joe Cannon’s family perhaps picked the wrong line of work. Realtors? Really? In this market?

The transfer window is opening up soon. Maybe next week? Apparently that means the Quakes are going to pick up a fantastic offensive player, the stars will align, there will be world peace, THE SAN JOSE OFFSIDE BLOGGERS WILL COME BACK, and everything will be super fantastico awesome.