Author Topic: On the Eve of the new Season...  (Read 1443447 times)

shemptiness

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3810 on: June 08, 2012, 03:28:27 pm »
This has to be the worst opening game of the Euros ever.

I stand corrected.  The matchup was awful, but the match itself was highly entertaining...

Officiating was questionable. 

vansmack

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3811 on: June 08, 2012, 04:04:49 pm »
Officiating was questionable. 

Oh, it was awful.  But since I had no dog in the fight, I found that entertaining too...
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godsshoeshine

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3812 on: June 08, 2012, 04:41:57 pm »
thought poland would at least be fun to watch with the dortmund players

czechs were overmatched. going to be a short tournament for them
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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3813 on: June 08, 2012, 04:50:23 pm »
czechs were overmatched. going to be a short tournament for them

Brother in law: Keller needed more work in the booth before this major tournament
Smackie: So did the Czech defense...


I used to root for the Czech's.  Then I shared a camp with them in Gelsenkirchen in 2006...
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godsshoeshine

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3814 on: June 08, 2012, 09:55:58 pm »
ole mankie used to have a saying about a goalie being a teams best player

it wasn't a good thing
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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3815 on: June 11, 2012, 07:12:13 pm »
If I don't have familial attachments or bloodline attachments to a country, I usually root for nations in tournaments in the following order:

(1) If in attendance, always root for the home team.  The after-party is always better when the home team wins.

Then I employ the following rules:

(1) Where were you in World War II?
(2) Which country has the hotter women?
(3) Which team plays the more entertaining football?

If none of those rules produce a clear winner, I get into the weeds:

(1) Which team has more Manchester United players?
(2) Geo-politically, which country is better for the world?
(3) Which team doesn't have a player named Andre on it? 

I don't care how you spell it, you can't trust anybody named Andre. #fact

All that being said, I was touched/moved/impressed by Andriy Shechenko's performance in front of his home fans today.  I was also surprised he was still alive.

One other quick thought.  It was weird seeing Sweden in black and not seeing the team in yellow as Sweden.  I was worried that the similar colors would make it difficult to tell the Swedish women apart from the Ukrainian women - turns out it's not that hard to tell the difference between Scandanvian women and Developing country women....   
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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3816 on: June 11, 2012, 10:58:14 pm »
All that being said, I was touched/moved/impressed by Andriy Shechenko's performance in front of his home fans today.    

the man was already an national hero.  today, he became a legend.

i can't say that i was particularly impressed by ukraine's game and without a whole lot of luck they aren't going to make it far, certainly not in the elimination round (then again, a whole lot of luck is exactly what they had in 2006 so who knows).  the last 5-6 minutes of defense were painful to watch.  i'm still shocked that the vikings didn't score.

I was worried that the similar colors would make it difficult to tell the Swedish women apart from the Ukrainian women - turns out it's not that hard to tell the difference between Scandanvian women and Developing country women....   

they showed some absolute stunners during the game.  the vast majority of them, IMO, were ukie.

since we're on the topic of the Euro:
- could portugal/italy have been any more of a disappointment? zzzzzzzz.
- i enjoyed france/england more than i should have.
- i hereby ask that we retire the expression "luck of the irish", unless it's meaning is sarcastic.
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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3817 on: June 12, 2012, 07:38:59 pm »
so US soccer qualifier against Guatemala unavailable on TV but Mexico available.. WTF?


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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3818 on: June 12, 2012, 07:40:49 pm »
so US soccer qualifier against Guatemala unavailable on TV but Mexico available.. WTF?

It's free at my local soccer bar:

https://www.facebook.com/dannycoyles

Otherwise, yep.  Pay per view only because US networks deemed the asking price too high for the market share.
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hutch

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3819 on: June 12, 2012, 09:10:24 pm »
so US soccer qualifier against Guatemala unavailable on TV but Mexico available.. WTF?

It's free at my local soccer bar:

https://www.facebook.com/dannycoyles

Otherwise, yep.  Pay per view only because US networks deemed the asking price too high for the market share.


awesome bout your bar.. the two local bars here i'm sure are charging covers..although you never know.. its a pain though... here on the east coast its 10 pm start.




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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3820 on: June 12, 2012, 09:13:44 pm »
summers charge is only 5 bucks.. i'd go but my mother in law is here, the baby and the two year old..its tough to say "I'm outta here!!!!!!!!!!"


hmmm


actually think this is a big game for the US.

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3821 on: June 13, 2012, 09:22:01 am »
summers charge is only 5 bucks.. i'd go but my mother in law is here, the baby and the two year old..its tough to say "I'm outta here!!!!!!!!!!"



You would if you had a sack.....

hutch

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3822 on: June 13, 2012, 10:46:31 am »
summers charge is only 5 bucks.. i'd go but my mother in law is here, the baby and the two year old..its tough to say "I'm outta here!!!!!!!!!!"



You would if you had a sack.....

oh god you're back.


No, I go out plenty...this wasn't going to work.

vansmack

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3823 on: June 13, 2012, 01:46:22 pm »
And here I was excited for the second match!  This match has been incredible....
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hutch

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Re: On the Eve of the new Season...
« Reply #3824 on: June 13, 2012, 03:14:39 pm »
Netherlands-Germany


Can't both teams lose?