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July 26, 2007
Memories and forgetfulness
Welcome to Thursday at the SSV Blog, where today we will explore the vicissitudes of human memory—how long we remember and how quickly we forget.
On the side of remembrance, we give you Gary Singh of the Metro, who writes about "Old School Quakes" in this week's column. While the rest of us were lost in the euphoria of the news of our team's rebirth last week, Singh was a step further down the path, wondering "With what will this new team, this empty vessel, be filled?" He makes a few suggestions based on the team's history, focusing on former GM Johnny Moore, who always made sure that players pulling on an Earthquakes shirt knew that it meant something special.
In the land of forgetfulness, we present Kent McDill, sports columnist for Chicago's Daily Herald newspaper. In his column covering the week in soccer, McDill mentions the return of the Quakes, then adds the following:
The league plans to expand to 16 teams by 2010, and there is reason to believe one of those teams will land in the Pacific Northwest, which would give the Earthquakes a rival, so they don’t have to steal the L.A. Galaxy from its newest neighborhood rival, Chivas USA.
Yes, you read correctly—the Quakes wouldn't want to "steal the L.A. Galaxy" away from their roommates at Chivas. It's not like the Quakes/Galaxy rivalry has long been recognized as the best in MLS, or the two teams met in a 2003 playoff match that has been rightly called "the greatest game in MLS history." Certainly we wouldn't want that history to take precedence over the spectacularly one-sided, two-and-a-half seasons of the Galaxy and Chivas playing relatively meaningless regular season matches...
(He's right about one thing, though—we think a Pacific Northwest team would be a great addition to MLS, whether it's Portland, Seattle, or Vancouver.)
Speaking of Canada, we know that the fine folks at Earthquakes Soccer want their team to be the crown jewel of soccer in Northern California. But why not go a little further north?
We say this because Vancouver Island's Comox Valley Record newspaper reports today that the Tsawwassen Earthquakes, a U12 side, won the British Columbia provincial championships with a 1-0 win over Comox Valley’s High Voltage. Congratulations and go Quakes!
Posted by Jay at July 26, 2007 08:17 AM
Comments
Never mind the McPickle guy from Chicago. He is perpetually in a state of half-asleep, half-awake.
Posted by: Will at July 26, 2007 09:45 AM
You also need to include this link to remind that Zombie McPickle guy about what an MLS rivarly really means:
http://web.mlsnet.com/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20050627&content_id=34653&vkey=news_mls&fext=.jsp
Posted by: Will at July 26, 2007 02:52 PM