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USA vs. Trinidad & Tobago

Happyhanukkah_tiny by Brendanukkah on in Playoffs

Big game tonight.  Against Cuba last week, the USA clinched its berth in next year's Hexagonal to determine who represents CONCACAF at the World Cup.  Bob Bradley has taken the opportunity to trot out a lot of youngsters who may very well be the future of American soccer.  They'll get a stern test tonight in Port of Spain from a far more seasoned T&T team that they dismantled 3-0 in Bridgeview, IL in September.  Trinidad has called back more of its veteran players, spearheaded by Dwight Yorke.  They are fighting hard for the second slot in the Hex and it will be all the Americans do to come away with a result.

Tim Howard only allowed one goal in group play (a fluke shot from Cuba), but he's been released back to Everton.  Aston Villa benchwarmer Brad Guzan is likely to get the start between the pipes tonight for the US.  He's certainly demonstrated that he can hold his own on the national stage, but this DC United fan still would have liked to see Troy Perkins get the nod, as he's been very much in form for his Norwegian club.  The big story will be to see if Jozy Altidore and Freddy Adu get serious minutes, as well as the continued development of Jose Francisco Torres after his very promising debut.  Look for Altidore to start as the target forward, with Adu on the right and Torres on the left.  Also keep an eye on Charlie Davies, and Michael Orozco, who's looking to make people forget about the red card he picked up in the Olympics.  Sasha Klejstan and DaMarcus Beasley have been displaying great form recently.  And for the hometown crowd, Columbus Crew members Frankie Hejduk and Brian Carroll both were called up.  Bradley will like Hejduk's veteran presence and work rate against an improved Trinidad side, but it will a surprise if Carroll gets minutes tonight.

Prediction: Trinidad & Tobago 1::1 USA

 

Oh, and the Phillies have a chance to clinch their first World Series appearance in 15 years tonight against the Dodgers as Cole Hamels goes against Chad Billingsley.

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My prediction – USA 3, Trinidad & Tobago 1

AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!

Also, soccer is um, weird.

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 15, 2008 7:55 PM EDT   0 recs

Please note the above video is risque

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 15, 2008 7:57 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

An earlier incarnation of Gay Jesus ?

Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.

by Madville on Oct 15, 2008 8:20 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

T&T 1 : 2 USA

Frankie Hejduk sends the home crowd home disappointed. Not biased at all, btw.

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Oct 15, 2008 8:01 PM EDT   0 recs

Off topic

Hamels throws a gem and we hear the Rocky theme song 487 times over the next two weeks.

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 15, 2008 8:08 PM EDT   0 recs

T&T playing the US national anthem on steel drums and marimbas

That’s pretty freaking sweet.

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Oct 15, 2008 8:08 PM EDT   0 recs

Also, will this be the lowest number of posts in a game thread in RR history?

I think yes

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Oct 15, 2008 8:09 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh now

Surely we can get to 20 or 30.

Do we have an official record for the modern era?

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 15, 2008 8:11 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Simple US - 2 ; T and T - nil

American men’s soccer is on the rise but I still love to watch the women…Here’s shot of the incomparable Grace King from Macelster College…

3 time all American…style ‘grace’ and speed.

Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.

by Madville on Oct 15, 2008 8:19 PM EDT   0 recs

Mads is here, it's a party

Pretty good work in the Pick’em pool for someone who claims to be unlearned in football.

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 15, 2008 8:25 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Garsh,,,geee Thanks jch - beginner's luck

Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.

by Madville on Oct 15, 2008 8:54 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

CUBA REFERENCE

Did you know I went to Cuba?

"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"

by justin007000 on Oct 15, 2008 8:25 PM EDT   0 recs

CUBA REFERENCE

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 15, 2008 8:27 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

World Cup?

Not that fake football again.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 8:30 PM EDT   0 recs

Back and forth.

I see Rollins is trying to speed up the inevitable Phillies victory, which is nice.

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Oct 15, 2008 8:33 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I’m pulling for the Dodgers. If they win tonight, they take the series. That’s a Prince Fielder sized If though.

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2008 8:39 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

OMG

The Fonz is an old man.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 8:35 PM EDT   0 recs

Time does that.

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2008 8:35 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

T&T looking really good so far

The US… not so much

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Oct 15, 2008 8:36 PM EDT   0 recs

anyone going to watch McCain "whip" Obama?

"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"

by justin007000 on Oct 15, 2008 8:46 PM EDT   0 recs

too cynical

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2008 8:49 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Let me know

if there’s a bench-clearing brawl.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 8:58 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I'd rather watch Palin whipping Larry Craig in a speedo, blidfolded, in a men's room stall

or on his knees

Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.

by Madville on Oct 15, 2008 8:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

He don't swing that way

I think he’d rather be whipped by Obama or Biden.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 9:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

here we go

I saw David Gregory in person while I was in Denver.

"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"

by justin007000 on Oct 15, 2008 9:01 PM EDT   0 recs

What position does he play?

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 9:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

he was a minor league call up

after Tim Russert went down

"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"

by justin007000 on Oct 15, 2008 9:04 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Wow

I had no idea batters were expected to make lame small talk with the home plate umpire.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 9:08 PM EDT   0 recs

Not - Fantasia ! (Although Ol' Yeller' still tugs at me heartstrings)

No not that American Idol loser either

Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.

by Madville on Oct 15, 2008 11:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Fox & The Hound?

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 15, 2008 11:05 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

come on

it doesnt hold a candle to the best role Robin Williams ever played:

“its not your fault, Al. its not your fault. its not your fault.”

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 15, 2008 11:07 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Don't fuck with me Sean, not you!

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 15, 2008 11:08 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

kazzaam!!

now youre a prince! and….some silly impression of Ed Sullivan…

best ever

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 15, 2008 11:10 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

McCain is for Joe the Plumber

"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"

by justin007000 on Oct 15, 2008 9:13 PM EDT   0 recs

So tired of stupid Geico "caveman" ads...

wasn’t funny. Still isn’t funny.

This place is like a sexy preschool.

by Gray on Oct 15, 2008 9:18 PM EDT   0 recs

your punishment is Frank Caliendo over and over

I get a tiny amount of enjoyment from the iPhone ads that feature Braun’s grand slam.

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2008 9:28 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Flag'd!

Hopefully this round of spots will trigger a reboot of Cavemen.

by Red Menace on Oct 15, 2008 11:55 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Ugh, the debate is painful...

back to baseball I go.

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by Gray on Oct 15, 2008 9:26 PM EDT   0 recs

Update on either/both?

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 15, 2008 9:27 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Dodgers lookin’ weak – on their third pitcher, ol’ man Maddux.

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2008 9:32 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Hamels is quite a guy aint he?

he looks completely unhittable.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 15, 2008 9:42 PM EDT   0 recs

The Brewers actually did pretty well against him now and then – not in the playoffs needless to say.

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2008 9:44 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Scott Boras shot at the game

have someone splash him with holy water or something

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2008 9:43 PM EDT   0 recs

Holy water. Pig blood. Whateva.

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 15, 2008 9:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

horrible timing

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2008 9:55 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

and I'm for McCain

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2008 10:05 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

yes.. he was cleared

and I think its nothing compared to the Freddie and Fannie bailout scandal

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2008 10:08 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

everyone was "cleared"

it was rich people stealing a trillion dollars – he didn’t have his head in the trough, he was in there swimming around

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2008 10:11 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

no people went to jail...

and people should go to jail over this bail out..

starting with Franklin Raines, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2008 11:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

You’re cherry picking. Not only should people have gone to prison for the S&L rip-off, but they got to keep the money. It was blatant and bold fraud. Setting up shell banks and making loans that you know won’t be repaid and then folding the bank would put you in prison today. They did it over and over.

Fanny and Freddy were stupid from the beginning.

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2008 11:12 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Neil Bush shoulda gone to jail

He paid a $50,000 fine, while his shenanigans cost the taxpayers over a billion dollars.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 11:19 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

just was reading the same thing..

you’ll get no argument from me on that….

but Raines should go to jail.. he cooked the books and walked away with 92 million dollars !!

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2008 11:20 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

No

I would start with Paulson. Quickly followed by Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, and Lawrence Summers.

What galls me is that Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers were warned that this would happen. And they blew it off.

Ms. Born was concerned that unfettered, opaque trading could "threaten our regulated markets or, indeed, our economy without any federal agency knowing about it," she said in Congressional testimony. She called for greater disclosure of trades and reserves to cushion against losses.

Ms. Born’s views incited fierce opposition from Mr. Greenspan and Robert E. Rubin, the Treasury secretary then. Treasury lawyers concluded that merely discussing new rules threatened the derivatives market. Mr. Greenspan warned that too many rules would damage Wall Street, prompting traders to take their business overseas.

"Greenspan told Brooksley that she essentially didn’t know what she was doing and she’d cause a financial crisis," said Michael Greenberger, who was a senior director at the commission. "Brooksley was this woman who was not playing tennis with these guys and not having lunch with these guys. There was a little bit of the feeling that this woman was not of Wall Street."

Rubin is on Obama’s economic team.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 11:14 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

His healthcare plan sucks.

Obama’s isn’t ideal, but it’s at least not that horrible.

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by Gray on Oct 15, 2008 10:07 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

how can McCain be anti tax

and then have health care benefits be taxable goes against everything he stands for

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2008 10:09 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

The interesting thing to me

is that he’s doing the same thing that sunk the Liberals in Canadia in the election that just happened there.

It’s bad in lots of ways that health insurance has this odd, tax-exempt status when done through employers—but he did an absolutely horrible job of making the case for changing this. That could have been a useful component of a real plan, though.

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by Gray on Oct 15, 2008 10:12 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

How can he be anti-tax after voting yes for bizarrely huge spending bill after bill. Isn’t that high school economics that spending determines taxes? But somehow the republicans holler about being anti-tax and it always works.

How about his silence and complicity while the currency is degraded to hell. That’s taxation. Bust out the guillotines.

by ol Pete on Oct 15, 2008 10:14 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

famous quote

 A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy

Alexander Tytler

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2008 10:33 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

That quote is fictitious

At least according to Snopes.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 10:43 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

well somebody came up with the quote

and I think that whoever said it hit the nail on the head…

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2008 10:57 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Tytler?

is that like the girl-on-girl porn version of Adolf?

/battlekow’d

...because there's already someone posing as Jacob Brumfield

by Cy Schourek on Oct 16, 2008 11:40 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Health care doesn't matter

There will be no money for all these big campaign promises, after that bailout.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 10:13 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

There hasn't been money for anything the government has done

in a while, yet we keep paying for programs.

This place is like a sexy preschool.

by Gray on Oct 15, 2008 10:14 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

By borrowing

From China, Japan, India, etc.

The problem is…our money’s no good any more.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 10:19 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

eh

people are buying treasuries left and right so far.

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by Gray on Oct 15, 2008 10:21 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I think

That is the reason for the bailout. To mollify the Chinese and others, who were not happy at the idea of losing their shirts if we let the free market work. Precisely to keep the money flowing in.

But it’s not sustainable. There’s too much debt. We cannot cover it all, and if we try, China, etc., will be just as unhappy, because we’ll inflate our debt to them away. They’ve made it clear that is not acceptable.

This is a freakin’ disaster, in so many ways you can’t even count them all.

President McBama will be hard-pressed to feed people, let alone start up any fancy new programs.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 10:28 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah

They ran out of digits on the debt clock in NY.

But really, that’s the least of our worries. It’s harvest, and grain is piling up at the ports, because nobody has the credit to buy it.

In Iceland, shelves are empty because nobody trusts them to pay for imports.

Pakistan is going bankrupt. They’re struggling to pay for food and fuel. They have nukes.

And here in the US, one in ten Americans rely on food stamps. It’s only going to get worse with unemployment likely to spike in the coming months.

And pity the poor farmers. Inputs (diesel, fertilizer, etc.) are still very expensive, but the price they get for their crops has collapsed. Many are not sure they can stay in business.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 15, 2008 10:55 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I was hoping that McCain would take the angle of

balancing the budget
line item veto
let the market fix the current bank failure issues
spend within our means..
starting to fix the trade imbalance

but he didn’t… its the bottom of the 9th and he grounded weekly to second base

Nobody listens to Andrew

by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2008 10:24 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

let's face it.

the grownups have left the republican party.

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