Put on your flippie-floppies and bring your inflatable dolphin! ECS is heading to Bremerton for an away viewing with West Sound Armada!

Hosted by Emerald City Supporters and West Sound Armada

Bremerton: Cloverleaf Sports Bar & Grill, 1240 Hollis Street Bremerton, WA 98310

Live Thursday, August 19th, 2010 Kickoff at 19:00

The Ferry:
Take the Seattle – Bremerton ferry departing from Colemon Dock. Seattle waterfront right across from Yesler Way / Pioneer Square.
The Ferry runs about every 70-80 minutes all day long. The crossing takes almost exactly 1 hour.
Schedule can be found here: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/schedule/
Note: Money can be saved if you drive around over the narrows bridge instead of take the boat, but you miss out on a great scenic boat ride (and beer).

The Fares:
Vehicle and Driver: $14.85 (collected both ways)
Motorcycle and Driver: $6.45 (collected both ways)
Passenger or Walk-on: $6.90 (collected in Seattle only)
Bicycle Surcharge: $1.00 (collected in Seattle only)

Sailings:
Take the 3:00pm ferry from Coleman Dock in downtown Seattle to get to Bremerton in time for the match

Take either the 7:55pm, 9:00pm or 11:40pm sailings to get back to Seattle.

The Directions:
From the ferry dock:
1.) Exit the dock thru the by-pass tunnel. This is the only way out of the dock area.
2.) Continue straight to the top of the hill and make a right on Warren Ave.
3.) Continue on Warren past Olympic College and across the Warren Ave Bridge to East Bremerton.
4.) Warren becomes Wheaton Way / Hwy 303…keep going.
5.) Turn right at Hollis Street. Bar is on the left. (Behind closed mini-mart / in front of closed K-Mart…hey, it’s a small town with a Wal-Mart, ok.)
From south (you drove around and over the narrows bridge)
1.) From I-5 take 16 west toward Bremerton (kinda near the tacoma dome)
2.) Cross the narrows bridge.
3.) Take 16 to Bremerton and follow signs for Bremerton.
4.) Take 3 North toward Bremerton/Poulsbo.
5.) Go right at the fork onto WA-304 toward Bremerton.
5.) Follow signs for Bremerton Ferry and look for Warren Ave.
6.) Take left on Warren and use the directions above.

The Beer & Food:
1.) 21 beers on tap. Owner is going to try to get a keg of bitter for this event.
2.) DO NOT eat prior to getting to the bar. You want to eat Cloverleaf food…it’s killer.

Other Outside (including Seattle):

Seattle

The Atlantic Crossing (6508 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 729-6266) – Cutter’s birthday bash will also be here! Join her as she becomes and older kid!

509 Prime

Spokane: The Seaside (230 W. Riverside Spokane, WA 99201)

The Armed Service Group

Lakewood/DuPont: McNamara’s Pub and Eatery (1595 Wilmington Drive DuPont, WA 98327 (253) 964-9200)

253 Defiance

Tacoma: Billy B’s Pub (1213 S 56TH, Tacoma, WA)

West Sound Armada

Bremerton: (Cloverleaf Sports Bar & Grill. 1240 Hollis Street, Bremerton, WA 98310)

Black Hills Militia

Olympia: O’Blarney’s Irish Pub (4411 Martin Way E. Lacey WA 98516 (360) 459-8084)

Bellingham Border Boys

Bellingham: The Copper Hog (1327 North State Street, WA 98225-5711 (360) 927-7888)

SoCal Sound

Southern California: Murphy’s Pub (4918 E 2nd St, Long Beach, CA 90803, (562) 433-6338)

Seattle Sounders East — Boston

Boston: The Banshee (934 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA, 02125 617.436.9747)

Everett: The Irishman (2923 Colby Avenue Everett, WA 98201-4010 (425) 374-5783)

Tacoma: Doyle’s Public House (208 Saint Helens Avenue Tacoma, WA 98402 (253) 272-7468)

Wenatchee: The Wildcard (560 Valley Mall Parkway, East Wenatchee, Wa 98802, (509) 888-9453)

Details/Times:
14:15 Find your pub
16:30 Match Kicks Off
16:31-19:31 Go Fucking Mental!

See you on the terraces,
Keef

We are please to announce the arrival of Matt Gaschk to The Sweatshop this Monday on the show. He will be arriving in a special manner so be sure to log in early so you don’t miss the beginning at 7pm. The ECS Stickam room opens at 6:40pm.

And fortunately we have McKenzie back this week…so maybe he’ll have some good stuff lined up for the show.

Tune in at http://www.stickam.com/weareecs.

Freddie “I love Seattle” Ljungberg returns to Royal Brougham Park in what could be a “six-point” game come the end of the season.

Despite the defeat in the Champions League our league undefeated streak is still in tact.

Freddie’s return seems a bit ironic to those who are observant. If you look at the ticket for Saturday’s match you’ll see a very familiar face. Coincidence? Who knows. The important thing is we can get a leg up on Chicago by defeating them and effectively put some distance between us and them in the playoff race.

This game will surely be one not to miss!

Game Day Notes:

The merchandise table hours will be from 16:00 to 15 minutes before march to the match (that’s 19:15). Please bring any guest by and get them hooked up with a scarf, t-shirt and 2010 ECS membership for $30. That’s a $5 savings by buying it in person versus through our store online!

You can also pre-pay online we can have you pick up your membership kit in the stadium. Just stop by the ECS table behind 122 to pick up your gear (must pre-pay through the ECS store, select the option “pickup at Fuel” and add a note that you would like to pickup at our table in the Brougham End). Please stop by and pick up song sheets and introduce any guest you may have with you to influential ECS members! Remember, only you can help to spread songs and chants throughout the Brougham End. However, the ECS information table can help!

If your friends aren’t quite up for joining please bring them by the table anyways and get them a song sheet! We print up around a thousand per match for you. Please help to make the experience go from great to truly phenomenal!

PREFUNK @ Fuel or McCoy’s Firehouse

Fuel
164 S. Washington St
Seattle, WA 98104
206-405-FUEL
21+ only

McCoy’s Firehouse Bar
173 S. Washington St
Seattle, WA 98104
206-652-5797
All ages friendly

Details/Times:
16:00 Find your pub
18:30 March to the Match
19:30 Kickoff

See you on the terraces,
Keef

Update! Listen to the show here:

STICKAM ROOM OPENS AT 6:30PM

A couple of things to announce. First, every show will now be available on our Stickam page in 2 to 3 parts. Second, we will begain opening the Stickam room 30 minutes before showtime at 6:30pm so everyone has a chance to get in and settled before we make your ears bleed.

This show’s special guest is LIQUIDMJ who will be sharing away stories from San Jose. We’ve heard a lot of different accounts of the drama that went down….and we’re gonna set the record straight. Also, our host, McKenzie, will be in Eastern Washington so we’ll have FuzzyForeigner in the house to keep his chair warm. We’ll also be announcing the following week’s special guest from the Sounders organization.

So, don’t forget to get in the room early…get your webcam running…and prepare to get your feet burned!

Come join the lads of the Emerald City Supporters for a special double feature event. It kicks off with the Seattle Sounders FC versus Kansas City Harry Potters viewing party at Copper Cart in Belltown. Then after the match around 8:30p, stagger one block over to the newly renovated Crocodile for the much anticipated Grammatrain CD release show. Special discount-rate tickets of are available at the membership table on match days. See Lori Ross for tickets. Tickets are also available on The Crocodile’s website. TICKETS ARE $10.

The Copper Cart’s doors open at 4pm. Kick-off is at 5:30pm. They’ll be providing $5 pitchers of Manny’s, Hoegardden, Alaskan Amber, Widmer Hef, and more. They have plasma everywhere and a 100″ screen. Pool table will be available without rental fees.

CLICK HERE to go to the viewing party thread.

Copper Cart
113 Bell St
Seattle, WA 98121

The Crocodile
2200 2nd Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121

“As a club, we want to go as far as we can in every competition we enter and we view it as an honor and we view it as a privilege, not as a burden,” Sigi Schmid on the club’s CCL ambitions.

The impressive league run of four wins on the trot may be broken. However, Sounders FC’s historic foray into international competition continues this Thursday as the face the 2009 Honduran (Apertura) Champions C.D. Marathón. Be there for the 7pm PT kickoff as the boys hope to extend the unbeaten streak to 10 matches!

Marathón hail from San Pedtro Sula in the northwest corner of the country. The match will be played Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano, site of the U.S. National Team’s World Cup clinching victory against Honduras on October 10, 2009 via a Landon Donovan goal.

Having lost their two top goal scorers from the Apertura (Jerry Palacios and Mitchel Brown) to Chinese club teams, Marathón feature their lone World Cup squad representative, Walter Martinez, at Forward.

Sounders FC are playing in what many are calling “The Group of Death” or “Grupo de la Muerte” with C.F. Monterrey of Mexico and Deportivo Saprissa of Costa Rica, the top 2 teams of Group C qualify for the quarterfinals after the 6 home and home games have been completed.

Hosted by Emerald City Supporters

Seattle: Schultzy’s Sausage (4114 University Way NE, WA 98105 (206) 548-9461)

Live Thursday, August 19th, 2010 Kickoff at 19:00

Happy Hour food discounts from 3pm until 7pm. $3.99 Kostritzer (dark lager) & Wernesgruner (pilsner) until the end of the game. Sorry, no pitchers on the two drink specials. Check out the happy hour menu here!

Parties Outside Seattle:

509 Prime

Spokane: The Seaside (230 W. Riverside Spokane, WA 99201)

The Armed Service Group

Lakewood/DuPont: McNamara’s Pub and Eatery (1595 Wilmington Drive DuPont, WA 98327 (253) 964-9200)

253 Defiance

Tacoma: Billy B’s Pub (1213 S 56TH, Tacoma, WA)

West Sound Armada

Bremerton: (Cloverleaf Sports Bar & Grill. 1240 Hollis Street, Bremerton, WA 98310)

Black Hills Militia

Olympia: O’Blarney’s Irish Pub (4411 Martin Way E. Lacey WA 98516 (360) 459-8084)

Bellingham Border Boys

Bellingham: The Copper Hog (1327 North State Street, WA 98225-5711 (360) 927-7888)

SoCal Sound

Southern California: Murphy’s Pub (4918 E 2nd St, Long Beach, CA 90803, (562) 433-6338)

Seattle Sounders East — Boston

Boston: The Banshee (934 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA, 02125 617.436.9747)

Everett: The Irishman (2923 Colby Avenue Everett, WA 98201-4010 (425) 374-5783)

Tacoma: Doyle’s Public House (208 Saint Helens Avenue Tacoma, WA 98402 (253) 272-7468)

Wenatchee: The Wildcard (560 Valley Mall Parkway, East Wenatchee, Wa 98802, (509) 888-9453)

Details/Times:
16:15 Find your pub
19:00 Match Kicks Off
19:01-21:01 Go Fucking Mental!

See you on the terraces,
Keef

Update! Listen to the show here:

The new ECS podcast, “The Sweatshop” is off and running. Last week’s debut show saw 803 live viewers and numerous have peeped out the 3 part recording. Now it’s time get it going and start making things official.

The next episode airs LIVE, as always, this Monday, August 16th at 7pm on the ECS Stickam page, http://www.stickam.com/weareecs. If you haven’t done so, get there early, sign up, plug in your webcam and join us for what proves to be crazy show. You can also go to the “PODCAST” page under “NEWS” by using the top navigation bar where the Stickam feed is embedded. This show’s special guest, and coincidentally the first special guest ever, is none other than BULLDOG. You all know him, some fear him, some don’t know what to make of him. But he doesn’t give a shit and that’s why we love him. This is a definite “don’t miss” show just for the potential stories we might hear from his earlier days as a Leeds supporter on the terraces of Elland Road.

“For those who come and those who go, it’s just a pride to defend the shield of the Sounders,” Fredy Montero.

The Sounders are headed down to LA yet again to play the goats. Last year we lost twice in the HDC to a Chivas team that finished 4th in the Western Conference (two points behind SSFC). This year we play the first of three games (two regular season and one USOC [tickets still available here http://www.weareecs.com/shop/]) against a Chivas team that props up the Western Conference and baring any miracles are well out of the play off hunt.

The boys come into the game on a 4 game winning streak in MLS and 8 an game undefeated run in all competitions. We are a hot team right now with Montero scoring at will, El Flaco proving to be the pickup of the year, and Nkufo hungry for a goal. However, as we learned at SJ last year under similar circumstances, we cannot take any team for granted. While we seem to have recovered from that abysmal start we still need all the points we can get and some points on the road will not do our chances any harm. So come on out and cheer on the the boys as they look to continue their winning ways.

Seattle Viewing Party: Hosted by Emerald City Supporters

Seattle: The Atlantic Crossing (6508 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 729-6266)

Live Saturday, August 14th, 2010 Kickoff at 20:00

Note: at AC ECS members receive 10% of their entire bill.

Parties Outside Seattle:

509 Prime

Spokane: The Seaside (230 W. Riverside Spokane, WA 99201)

The Armed Service Group

Lakewood/DuPont: McNamara’s Pub and Eatery (1595 Wilmington Drive DuPont, WA 98327 (253) 964-9200)

253 Defiance

Puyallup: O’Henry Sports Bar (715 River Road, Puyallup, WA 98371-4150)

West Sound Armada

Bremerton: (Cloverleaf Sports Bar & Grill. 1240 Hollis Street, Bremerton, WA 98310)

Black Hills Militia

Olympia: O’Blarney’s Irish Pub (4411 Martin Way E. Lacey WA 98516 (360) 459-8084)

Bellingham Border Boys

Bellingham: The Copper Hog (1327 North State Street, WA 98225-5711 (360) 927-7888)

SoCal Sound

Southern California: SoCal Sound will be at the stadium supporting the boys live for this one!

Seattle Sounders East — Boston

Boston: The Banshee (934 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA, 02125 617.436.9747)

Everett: The Irishman (2923 Colby Avenue Everett, WA 98201-4010 (425) 374-5783)

Tacoma: Doyle’s Public House (208 Saint Helens Avenue Tacoma, WA 98402 (253) 272-7468)

Wenatchee: The Wildcard (560 Valley Mall Parkway, East Wenatchee, Wa 98802, (509) 888-9453)

Details/Times:
16:15 Find your pub
20:00 Match Kicks Off
20:01-22:01 Go Fucking Mental!

See you on the terraces,
Keef

The playoff race is heating up! Join ECS in supporting the Sounders as we seek three points nd revenge for knocking us out of last year’s MLS Cup Playoffs!

Seattle wins when it matters. It’s what we do.

Right now we’re hotter than Mojave. A win Sunday against the Dynamo will put us in a very good position going into the final third of the season. Houston, while still a dangerous side, has been adrift in the league over the past month. With three draws and a loss in July it’s fair to say it wasn’t their best month of football.

Houston is led by Brad Davis who has four goals and six assists in 17 games. Former USMNT player Brian Ching has been having a subpar 2010 and has netted only three goals. The club is still rife with talent but the loss of Stuart Holden and Ricardo Clark on free transfers has definitely hurt the club in the standings.

Be sure to be there Sunday and be loud.

Game Day Notes:

The merchandise table hours will be from 16:00 to 15 minutes before march to the match (that’s 18:45). Please bring any guest by and get them hooked up with a scarf, t-shirt and 2010 ECS membership for $30. That’s a $5 savings by buying it in person versus through our store online!

You can also pre-pay online we can have you pick up your membership kit in the stadium. Just stop by the ECS table behind 122 to pick up your gear (must pre-pay through the ECS store, select the option “pickup at Fuel” and add a note that you would like to pickup at our table in the Brougham End). Please stop by and pick up song sheets and introduce any guest you may have with you to influential ECS members! Remember, only you can help to spread songs and chants throughout the Brougham End. However, the ECS information table can help!

If your friends aren’t quite up for joining please bring them by the table anyways and get them a song sheet! We print up around a thousand per match for you. Please help to make the experience go from great to truly phenomenal!

PREFUNK @ Fuel or McCoy’s Firehouse

Fuel
164 S. Washington St
Seattle, WA 98104
206-405-FUEL
21+ only

McCoy’s Firehouse Bar
173 S. Washington St
Seattle, WA 98104
206-652-5797
All ages friendly

Details/Times:
16:00 Find your pub
19:00 March to the Match
20:00 Kickoff

See you on the terraces,
Keef

Now is not the time to lose focus. Keep our heads high and finish what we started last Wednesday! Viewing party at the AC!

Hosted by Emerald City Supporters

Seattle: The Atlantic Crossing (6508 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 729-6266)

Live Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 Kickoff at 19:00

ECS members receive 10% of their entire bill.
Happy Hour food and drink specials from 3-6pm

Parties Outside Seattle:

509 Prime

Spokane: The Seaside (230 W. Riverside Spokane, WA 99201)

The Armed Service Group

Lakewood/DuPont: McNamara’s Pub and Eatery (1595 Wilmington Drive DuPont, WA 98327 (253) 964-9200)

253 Defiance

Puyallup: O’Henry Sports Bar (715 River Road, Puyallup, WA 98371-4150)

West Sound Armada

Bremerton: (Cloverleaf Sports Bar & Grill. 1240 Hollis Street, Bremerton, WA 98310)

Black Hills Militia

Olympia: O’Blarney’s Irish Pub (4411 Martin Way E. Lacey WA 98516 (360) 459-8084)

Bellingham Border Boys

Bellingham: The Copper Hog (1327 North State Street, WA 98225-5711 (360) 927-7888)

SoCal Sound

Southern California: Barney’s Beanery (1351 3rd St. Promenade
Santa Monica, CA 90401)

Seattle Sounders East — Boston

Boston: The Banshee (934 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA, 02125 617.436.9747)

Everett: The Irishman (2923 Colby Avenue Everett, WA 98201-4010 (425) 374-5783)

Tacoma: Doyle’s Public House (208 Saint Helens Avenue Tacoma, WA 98402 (253) 272-7468)

Wenatchee: The Wildcard (560 Valley Mall Parkway, East Wenatchee, Wa 98802, (509) 888-9453)

Details/Times:
16:15 Find your pub
19:00 Match Kicks Off
19:01-21:01 Go Fucking Mental!

See you on the terraces,
Keef