New England Revolution - San Jose Earthquakes (Saturday, 5/17) pre/in/postgame thread [R]

I will never see him as a good guy. Perhaps a good coach, but never a good guy...

 

There’s some question about Espinoza playing in this game because he hasn’t been in any of the training or travel videos. Hopefully they’re just resting him from training because I realized that he’d be going up against The Beas(t).

 

I’m at a guitar festival. So I’m going to play scary expensive guitars today.

Go Quakesfans!!

 

Say hi to the Larrivee and Collings folks for me! I've never gone to one before - browsing at Gryphon or Dave's, or Gruhn is the closest I've come.

I hear good things about Santa Cruz and ooh - Breedlove's up there in Oregon. I'm a fan!

 

Banana bread's in the oven, cannabinoids are in the brain and it's time for game one in 15 minutes (ESPN+). Still haven't grabbed a guitar to play...

 

Livin’ the life!

 

Beason has not yet scored a goal for his team in MLS. Maybe tonight’s the night!

my daughter is taking her kids to the game tonight for their first mls game (although oldest went to a USOC game there when she was a baby)

 

I'd like the Beas(t) to add to his "other team" goal total tonight.

 

MLS GK leaders in post shot xG minus goals conceded:

Carlos Coronel, +4.7
Sean Johnson, +4.2
Daniel, +3.6

Bottom three:

Earl Edwards, -3.3
John McCarthy, -3.1
Andrew Thomas, -2.5

— Tom Bogert (@tombogert) May 17, 2025

 

This is insane considering Edwards hasn't even played 2 full games. It's analogous to a striker playing only 2 games and scoring hat tricks in both of them.

 

What's the reverse of a hat trick? 3 own goals?

 

Wow if this FotMob lineup is correct, it looks like Bruce is tanking this game.

Oops, can’t upload the screenshot…

https://www.fotmob.com/match/4694442?tz=America/Los_Angeles

 

Holy cow! We're going full-on B team. I think Bruce didn't want to face losing to Caleb and NE with his A team lineup. But going B team, he is almost conceding the game, taking away any reasonable bragging rights from Porter. Since a lot of these guys played in the last USOC game, I'm guessing we're gonna play a number of starters on Tuesday?

I'm excited to see Nick Fernandez get his debut. He looked pretty good in preseason, and also in very limited minutes with The Town.

 

Yeah, we aren’t winning with that lineup. Maybe Pelle will shock us and score a brace? And one more from Marie?

Go Quakesfans!!

 

Bruce has set himself up in a no-lose situation. If we lose it’ll be “I wasn’t really trying - screw the MLS schedule makers for putting me in this position”. If he wins, it’s:

 

It also makes sense to prioritize intra-conference games. More important to beat Houston next week than NE this week. And if he wants to go for it in USOC, if we beat Portland we’re in the quarterfinals - 3 wins from HW.

 

These are all boutique guitar makers, like Yzzy. Notice the price tag on the guitar. One of their guitars is $20,999 and one is $39,999. Ridiculous!

But I played a Blackcap that was only $7,150 (?). That guitar is inhabited by fairies that sing when you play!

 

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