Back to your scheduled programming

There was a bit of a glitch with yesterday’s blog. We had a link to the match report from Sunday’s tilt between the Earthquakes and Rapids reserves, a story in the L.A. Loyolan about new Quakes developmental signing and Pleasanton native Adam Sloustcher, and links to the MLSnet video section for highlights of the weekend’s action. All that disappeared, though, leaving our comments on the recent Merc editorial about the stadium proposal and a headline that referenced an old tune by the Easybeats. We’ll blame the computer for now, but the real problem was probably between the chair and the keyboard.

There’s not much to pass along today, although we may have something later. The only story to catch our eye is this one about the opening of the new practice field at Santa Clara. Just in time, too — the Quakes are practicing on the fake grass there in preparation for this weekend’s match against Los Toros Rojos de Nueva York, the name we’ll be using for that team since we’re not really into the whole “let’s name our team after our corporate parent in order to expand the brand” thing.

We may have an update this afternoon, though. We’ll let you know.