The pre-pregame

Since the Quakes headed straight to DC after their scoreless draw in Salt Lake City on Wednesday night, we don’t have a lot of first-hand news for you about the team.

Well, mostly. Actually, we have discovered today that Kelly Gray is writing a bi-monthly blog for Goal.com. (For them and not for Center Line? Geez, what are we, chopped liver? The folks at Goal.com couldn’t even be bothered to find a current picture of Gray to run with his column. Humph.)

The other story in the press today, and we think it may be a mistake, actually, is a pre-game piece by Michael Erler in the San Mateo Daily Journal.  It’s a good story but there is this bit here:

The Earthquakes’ grueling trip continues tonight at our nation’s capital against the D.C. United…

It’s not tonight, the game is tomorrow, and the words “the D.C. United” just shouldn’t appear together. (We suspect his editors played a part in that since Erler is a pretty knowledgeable writer.)

That’s it for today. We’re off to watch the Holland/Russia match and recommend that any soccer fan do the same. Hmm, there must be an orange shirt around here somewhere…