Pre-match: Los Angeles Galaxy - San Jose Earthquakes (Saturday, 10/24) pregame thread

Tell me about it. Since I've moved to San Diego we've made a few trips up to LA, and every time we're there less than an hour before we ask ourselves WTF we bothered to drive up for and flee back down the San Diego.

I've actually learned to loathe them even more down here. Too often San Diego is lumped in with LA when infact it's not smoggy, doesn't steal NorCal's water, isn't a giant parking lot, and is actually a very pleasant place to live. LA by comparison is the rotten bologna that is between the two pieces of fine Focaccia that are the Bay Area and San Diego.

 

While it is true that LA is a giant cement toilet and those that live there resemble that which abides therein, I'm sure there must be at least 3 or 4 real(read non-plastic) people there that wish they were elsewhere.

 

Yeah there are. I have a friend who's been trapped in Torrance for the last few years. Doesn't mean she likes it though. At dinner the other night when we dared to venture up there, she mentioned that, "if North Korea got nukes and had to target one US city she hopes it's LA", her words not mine. That is how much the area has endeared itself to her.

 

Maybe they need to add a mushroom cloud to this badge:

 

Some of you guys make me laugh, LA "steals" water. Sure... what do you call crystal springs? ha ha ha

Man does a lot of things right, give the citizens of SF circa 1900 thumbs up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetchy_Reservoir

 

Well, probably there is no news from Centerline on the last game of our season. Which may be good because recently all news is related to yet any injured player. We have turned the focus to LA the place itself. I agree that San Diego is different and I like it much better than LA. It is much cleaner in any sense. The only 2 places I actually enjoy visiting in LA are Grand Central Market and Olvera Street. These places are more Latino influenced but I am not a Latino. Still it reminds me a lot of my childhood in the Asian city.

 

Had the same experience on a trip to Santa Barbara a few years ago. We decided, for some reason, to take a trip to Santa Monica one day, and it just a bad experience from the get-go. Traffic, smog hanging over the beach, unfriendly people at the pier, etc.

I was thinking too that Q might get a start virtually by process of elimination, but I agree that Frank will probably go with the same lineup as last week. After all, it was probably considered a "success" by Frank in that they got a road point (and based on his post-game comments). I think they were mostly just lucky.

 

Last I checked though Hetch Hetchy is in Northern California. So essentially we're stealing from ourselves.

 

I would also like to express my agreement with the remarks of my esteemed colleagues.
LA sucks like a huge filthy whirlpool!

 

Well, saying SF is Northern California is like saying Tampa is South Florida around here. Only the geopgraphically challenged say stuff like that.

Once a drop of water leaves Yosemite it would go father to get to Oregon then it would to go to Disneyland (the original).

Interesting San Diego lovers here don't mention where their water comes from, or Santa Barbara, or SLO folks. Face it in California we move water to where we live.

Everywhere I have traveled to, the locations has its great spots, bummer some haven't stopped to "smell the local roses". LA has much to offer. Me if I could take the US form of government with me, I would live in Lake Louise, Alberta in the summer and Anegada, British Virgin Islands the rest of the time.

But since that won't happen, I will be satisfied with the 0% state income tax and where the tax we complain about here in Florida is the 6% sales tax that might be going up. You remember 6%, well maybe not, as that was so long ago in California.

Can't wait for global warming, beach front view again! Or wait is that global cooling? That is what the loons pushed in my college days, so much to worry about! Nah I just want the Q's to whack the AEG puppets.

 

Um looking at a map, Yosemite is as much in Northern California as SF is so I'd hardly consider myself geographically challenged. As for Tampa being in South Florida it's not. But then Florida is divided differently than CA is geographically. California is traditionally divided in half across the state somewhere near SLO's latitude and cut straight across the state. Now politically the central valley and Sierra might be quite different from the coast and Sacramento, but that doesn't negate where they're located geographically.

 

I agree with you. I used to live in SD for a couple of years while I was in university (I still consider SD to be my second hometown). The only thing I took offense to while down in SD were all the Padres fans

 

WCF, wtf are you talking about? SF is norcal. It's the main city in norcal, along with SJ and Sacto.

 

Then you'll just love me. I've adopted the Pads as my NL team since I've moved since I've been a lifelong A's fan. Made sense to root for another down on their luck team that is diametrically opposed to the Gnats.

 

wait..so you live in Florida? and you're telling northern Californians that they don't know northern California geography...

okay?

 

SD makes LA look like a craphole. Of course, that's not hard to do!

I hate to say WCF is right, but he is. The Bay Area is closer to the geographic center of the state when you measure distance or consider it takes almost as long to get to the Oregon border as it takes to the Mexico border. The thing is it's the largest metropolitan area (along with my town Sac) south of Oregon.. Go up to Humboldt County or to Redding and ask them where northern CA is. 'cept way more people live down here, and in relation to "southern CA", we are north of them.

Anyway... totally off topic.

Wherever San Jose fits, let's beat "Southern" CA on Saturday!

 

yes, but most people divide the state into two parts,north and south.

Look at this picture, and tell me if the bay is closer to the top or the bottom:

 

How about we do three parts? I've seen a couple cars with CenCal stickers around.

 

Would be cool to have a team in San Diego or Fresno or both and have a CAL CUP .....

 

So geographically where is "central California"? The university of South Florida is located in Tampa. You are right, Tampa and the university of south florida are not located in south Florida. But then that does stop people from traditionally calling it south florida. Sort of like people mixing up politics with geography. Call it what you want, it does not make it right.

The Cal/Ore border is about 275 miles north of Sacramento; that is "Northern California". 275 south of Sacramento is Bakersfield; that is "Central California" and about 275 miles south of there is Mexico; that is "Southern California". The Bay area is is between Sacramento and Bakersfield and is located in Central California geographically.

If you want to slice from east to west you have east of the sierra's, the central valley and the coasts. I all instances; SF "stole" the water from Yosemite just like the farmers in the san jouqin valley "stole" it from the sierras as well. In California, water goes where it is needed; nobody is "stealing" it.

BTW: There is nothing central about Bay Area politics.

At least we agree on the Q's crushing AEG? Right?

Just thought you might want to know.........

 

Like Central America, Central California is but a mere and vague concept; it does not exist in reality. All countries from Panama north are part of the North American continent, all from Colombia south are part of the South American. Everything from a line through San Luis Obispo to the north is Northern California, everything to the south of that is SoCal.
Mulholland's devious dealings in the thieving of water out of Northern California to feed the deserts of SoCal (deserving of the designation desert not just in topographical but in intellectual terms as well) have been well documented. So, stuff it!!

 

What the hell are we talking about in this thread. Cripes.

 

Yes -- let's get back to something we can all agree on: SoCal sucks hard. We need to humiliate the water-thieving, child-porn-producing, grid-locked, surgically-enhanced, chemically-peeled, silicone-stuffed, collagen-and-botox-injected, peroxide-bleached, gold-chain-flashing, toupee-wearing, cap-toothed, mirror-obsessed, stiletto-tottering, smog-dwelling filth and scum that populate the cesspool that is the LA basin and send them to the playoffs with their heads down and confidence shattered.

Oh - and I hope that Beckham suffers a fatal groin pull in Milan...

 

Thank you! I'm glad somebody other than myself said that.