Jason goes to the Earthquakes home opener

After 2+ years, it was great to be back with the fans, drinking beer and yelling my head off in the Casbah. All that Earthquakes excitiment even spontaneously turned my hair blue!



Yeah, that's semi-permanent (3-6 weeks).

And the Quakes lost, 1-0, I don't want to talk about it. But they looked okay out there, controlling the game for a lot of the time. They'll break through soon and go on a winning streak. I'm letting them play like an expansion team this year. Then next year compete fiercely. Then they're on notice that we demand a championship by 2010. Of course, if they'd rather win one earlier, I wouldn't object.

Jason welcomes his beloved San Jose Earthquakes back to MLS

Even though they lost, 2-0, to the hated L. A. Galaxy.

Now I know I'm a homer, but in my humble opinion it should've been 1-1. In the 4th minute, with no score, the EQ scored a beautiful goal off a free kick assist. Called off on a veeeery borderline offsides call. I could man up and say "close call, I can see it either way, fair enough that the ref judged against us", but even the ESPN2 commentator said it shouldn't have been called (not at the time, later in the halftime recap). So "shouldabeen" score = 1-0 good guys.

Then steals the ball (fair play, no complaint), passes to the Spice Girl Hubby, who scores his first goal in 2 MLS seasons. Now that was offsides, but not called.

The other goal, by off a steal and assist by Mr. Spice Girl was completely fair play. I'd tip my hat to him, but my enormous Jew-fro prevents me from actually wearing a hat. So that's how I come up with 1-1 as a fair score.

Still, I'm just so happy to have a team back that I'll suffer them sucking a bit. They're an expansion team, they have a two year grace period. But I expect a championship by 2010, dammit!

More importantly, just sitting at home, watching the (road) game on TV, and drinking beer, I sweat buckets from jumping around and yelling so much. After 2 years off, I'm not sure if I'm in good enough shape to watch this season. I've gotta get into game shape by April 12, our home opener against the Chicago Fire.

Jason congratulates the Houston Dynamo, repeat MLS Cup Champions!

A beautiful way to end their run as my team. They used to be my San Jose Earthquakes, but we're cruelly stolen from me two years ago (fuck you, AEG!) I still love the guys, I'm still a fan of DeRo, Onstad, Ching (although he missed the game with injury) and the rest. But next year, I'll have the new San Jose Earthquakes, and I'll finally have to stop cheering for those guys and cheer for my expansion team. It'll be a little weird the first time Houston comes back to play in San Jose.

In other news, for you sports fans wondering want happened to the curse haunting the Red Sox, well apparently it got transferred to the New England Revolution, who are now losers of 4 of the last 6 MLS cups. Ouch!

Jason urges you to do your part to cure Futbolitis!

After all, this could've easily been me!



Actually, I know this guy. His name is...Guy. In fact, I would've shared my personal struggle with futbolitis with the makers of the PSA, but I was too busy feeding my movie addiction.

You can see more tragic stories like this at
http://www.curefutbolitis.com/

Fortunately, a cure is coming soon.

Jason celebrates the return of the San Jose Earthquakes!

So I was going to write about the panel discussion I attended last night about horror movies. Interesting panel, but didn't really tell me anything new about horror. Mostly it was just fun watching knowledgable horror fans geek out (the most fun was when people disagreed about specific movies, but those arguments were defused pretty quickly).

But on the way home I learned that my beloved San Jose Earthquakes are coming back in 2008. Woo Hoo! A more official announcement is expected later today, and they'll probably talk about it during the MLS all-star game tomorrow. BTW, if any Quakes fans haven't heard, join us at the Brittania Arms downtown for the MLS all-star viewing party, put a deposit on 2008 season tickets, and get a free t-shirt.

Okay, that's all.

Oh yeah, and go to the Hypnodrome for "Live Acts and Dead Channels" tonight, July 18.