Making the Quakes matter: Landing Almeyda a landmark moment for San Jose

Apart from the sustained individual excellence of Chris Wondolowski and the magical “Goonies” season of 2012, the San Jose Earthquakes have been worse than bad since they re-joined MLS in 2008 — they haven’t mattered.

By now you know that two very different, very important deals centered around high-profile Homegrown players went down over the last few days in MLS.