I'm Oct 17, 1999. Do I get a pin? Or a pint? Crap, that's going on twenty years. Dang, I'm old, after a fashion. Go Quakes!! - Mark
Very close. The San Jose Earthquakes host the Chicago Fire the following day. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
It'd be interesting to see the pins for those who started posting here before SoccerBoards.com became BigSoccer.com in 2000, and even beforehand during the days of the North American Soccer (NAS) listserv from the early-mid 1990's. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
Iʽm a millennial, and Iʽve been on here for 11 years! Teens these days are Gen Z. The youngest of the Millenials are 22 I believe.
OMG so then you qualify for a ... wait for it... gotta get the calculator... a 132-month anniversary pin!
A guy in the Columbus Crew group posted some info on a club's strategy on ticket pricing. He wrote: Usually, 5-10% for price increases is the sweet spot to minimize attrition. ... Further, doubling ticket prices over as little as 7 years (about 10% per year increases) is a lot easier for casual fans to stomach than doing it over 2 years (over 35% per year). Isn't this what the Quakes have done to us? Has anyone been tracking what they've paid for STH tix since Buck Shaw? Since we always did the 3-5 year commitment, I don't know how much prices increased each year. The guy also noted that ...zero or continuous increases, even when the product is bad, makes more money long-term than temporarily lowering them to align supply and demand. So all of this explains why Quakes kept raising prices even though the product was bad. As long as they stayed within 10% increases, it didn't matter to them what the product on the field was like.
They keep raising prices because costs rise and it only makes sense to do it in small bites, rather than trying to have fans swallow a huge chunk.
https://www.gambling.com/us/online-...odds-betting-tips-early-picks-to-back-1754400 FC Cincinnati +6600 New England Revolution +6600 Vancouver Whitecaps FC +8000 Minnesota United +10000 Orlando City SC +10000 Colorado Rapids +12500 San Jose Earthquakes +12500 Tied for last with the Rapids, and well behind an expansion team that is bringing up a dozen players from USL and drafting a dozen more out of college? We better be signing some more players, including a DP who is actually good...
FC Cinncinati have a leg up on us because they have ... Fatai Alashe!! Yeah, I expect us to suck this coming season. Unless we bring in another two or three really solid players, we're going to get torched. We need a new GK and another starting quality striker (such that we use Wondo as a sub). Otherwise, we're toast. Do we have a #10? Are we going to play Vako as a #10? Or TT?! I bet not. We're going empty bucket 4-4-2, or something very similar. We're going to start Wondo, at least until he breaks the record, and then we're going to replace him in the lineup with ... um ... Do we even have another striker on the roster? Show of hands, who thinks that Kashia is good enough to play a high pressure defense? If we're counting on Lima and Lopez to get forward in the attack because we're playing an empty bucket, what happens to us on the counter? Let's say that Espinosa is a big improvement over Eriksson, and that Lopez is a big improvement over Shea. Were those the only two problem spots on our roster? No, they weren't. I need whiskey, in quantity. Go Quakes!! - Mark
I think he can play high-pressure D. But I don't think he is good for a high press. He is a bit like Big Vic in that he knows exactly what to do, but if you run your D in a way that makes him win a foot race then you're doing it wrong.
I don't think that Kashia is anything like fast enough for this league. He looked pretty good his first three or so games with us, then other teams figured out that they could beat him with speed, and they did. We need faster players on our roster, in many positions. I'm not optimistic about the coming season, but there's still a ways to go before we see the final shape of the roster. Go Quakes!! - Mark
MLS All Time Rankings in Transfer Fee Revenue:1) RBNY - $27.5m2) CLB - $22.0m3) FCD - $17.2m4) VAN - $15.5m5) TOR - $10.2mt6) CHI - $9.4mt6) SKC - $9.4m8) SEA - $9.2m9) NYC - $6.7m10) DC - $6.0m— Tutul Rahman (@tutulismyname) January 20, 2019 Are the Quakes at $0?
I certainly can’t recall the Quakes ever having sold a player (save for TAM/GAM, which doesn’t count)...