USA vs. Trinidad & Tobago
by Brendanukkah on Oct 15, 2008 7:48 PM EDT
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PrintBig 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."
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
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."
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
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 up reply actions
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.
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."
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"
World Cup?
Not that fake football again.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
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 up reply actions
OMG
The Fonz is an old man.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
T&T looking really good so far
The US… not so much
"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands
anyone going to watch McCain "whip" Obama?
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
Let me know
if there’s a bench-clearing brawl.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
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.
He don't swing that way
I think he’d rather be whipped by Obama or Biden.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
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"
What position does he play?
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
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 up reply actions
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?
im watching Aladdin on Disney Channel
best Disney movie ever
by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 15, 2008 9:09 PM EDT reply actions
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.
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 up reply actions
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 up reply actions
McCain is for Joe the Plumber
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
So tired of stupid Geico "caveman" ads...
wasn’t funny. Still isn’t funny.
This place is like a sexy preschool.
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.
And I thought I was the only one that liked that show!
Against my better judgement.
by Brendanukkah on Oct 16, 2008 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions
just one more example
of how are meant for each other
by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 16, 2008 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Hamels is quite a guy aint he?
he looks completely unhittable.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 15, 2008 9:42 PM EDT reply actions
and I'm for McCain
Nobody listens to Andrew
by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2008 10:05 PM EDT up reply actions
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 up reply actions
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
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 up reply actions
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.
Neil Bush shoulda gone to jail
He paid a $50,000 fine, while his shenanigans cost the taxpayers over a billion dollars.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
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 up reply actions
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.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
His healthcare plan sucks.
Obama’s isn’t ideal, but it’s at least not that horrible.
This place is like a sexy preschool.
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 up reply actions
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.
This place is like a sexy preschool.
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.
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 up reply actions
That quote is fictitious
At least according to Snopes.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
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 up reply actions
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 up reply actions
Health care doesn't matter
There will be no money for all these big campaign promises, after that bailout.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
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 borrowing
From China, Japan, India, etc.
The problem is…our money’s no good any more.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
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.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
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.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
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 up reply actions
I think your right....
the republicans lost the center . there’s just not enough rich people to win any election.
The old tactics of saying (insert democrat candidate name) is a liberal and will raise your taxes just doesn’t work any more.
Nobody listens to Andrew
by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2008 10:38 PM EDT up reply actions
boy, if i had a nickel for everytime i heard that excuse...
by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 15, 2008 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions
grownups?
this country has been lead by impetuous 14-year-olds for years now. this is why our presidential races look so much like student counsel elections.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 15, 2008 10:52 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Leave the Republican Party, that is.
My part no longer exists and probably hasn’t for 15 years. No politcal sabremetrics here for justification..I just looked at my bank balance, the specter of my now closed store and the fact that my last daughter may have to graduate from college with debt. Thanks W., Karl, Dick, and you too Sgt. McCain.
Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.
There's a lot of things to make you lose faith in government
Two that I’ve recently read were Howard Zinn’s “History of the American People,” and “The New Rulers of the World” by John Pilger. They’re not really new texts, but they do a nice job of laying out just how little time the government spends governing, and just how little of what is done is actually done with the benefit of the people in mind. Pretty much zero.
by Brendanukkah on Oct 15, 2008 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions
They're trying so hard to manufacture some suspense...
two on, no outs!
This place is like a sexy preschool.
FTH is taking this game so long?
I’ve been checking in periodically and it seems to be dragging. Also, Cisco switch commands are really difficult to remember when you’re on hour 14 or so of work.
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
I sure hope so
But who the hell knows at this point. I’d post a pic of the mess but it’s embarrassing to me and IT in general. :)
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
Well
The Dodgers are looking an awful lot like the Yankees of recent years. Going out with a whimper.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
hoping for a comeback is too much to ask
some resistance and maybe a run or two though would be nice
nail biters ! Ha !
as a Reds fan we’d have only about a 50-50 chance of winning a game if we were leading after 7
most of us still can’t watch the 8th inning of any game without having Mike Stanton post Traumatic Stress flashbacks
Nobody listens to Andrew
by nlt-andrew68 on Oct 15, 2008 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions
You’ve got Coco now though. Much more certain in the ninth. We started with a guy who gave walk offs to C Pat and Paul Bako IIRC. When you guys had a post about them being gone, I thought, ah, there go two walk off wins…
Coco is not nearly as sure of a thing as we'd like
He’s picked up the nickname SoSo Cordero here.
by Brendanukkah on Oct 15, 2008 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions
that could have been because of the bone spurs
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
by justin007000 on Oct 16, 2008 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions
Or it could have been because he's always pitched like that
The numbers he put up this season were not that far off of his previous history.
"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling
you are your stats
compared to me and my just spouting things off.
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
by justin007000 on Oct 16, 2008 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Didn't Caleb make up all the posts in their thread in one of the Phils v. Reds games?
Politickin' in God's Country
Remember that game
where the Dodgers hit four home runs in a row in the bottom of the ninth?
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Jay from LGT is there too
I’m lurking, waiting like an adder for my time to strike……..
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
Pretty low-key celebration
I think the Reds got more excited when Janish hit that walkoff single.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Foo.
I’m going to Philly tomorrow and will be there til Tuesday. I was hoping for some playoff baseball going on at the same time, although I guess celebrating a National League title and preparing for the World Series will be good too.
by Brendanukkah on Oct 15, 2008 11:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Who one the soccer game?
Trinidad or the Phillies?
Tanzen!
by Verka Serduchka on Oct 15, 2008 11:50 PM EDT reply actions
yeah, I just saw the highlights
Go Caribbean. I mean the US is still my team, but T and T seemed to really want it. I wouldn’t mind seeming them join us in South Africa.
Tanzen!
by Verka Serduchka on Oct 16, 2008 12:02 AM EDT up reply actions
Think it will be US, Mexico, Costa Rica
and then T and T or Jamaica sliding in there after beating whichever team comes out of the South American region.
Of course, Trinidad and Jamaica have to make it out of this round, but if they can win their next games things should fall into place as the teams they are fighting against to qualify (Honduras, Guatamala) have tough draws (Mexico, US respectively) in their final matches.
Tanzen!
by Verka Serduchka on Oct 16, 2008 12:21 AM EDT up reply actions
Joe the Plumber
He looks like Jason from Ghost Hunters.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
How's this for depressing?
From Where Have You Gone Andy Van Slyke?:
And if the Rays win tonight, that means that since the Pirates last had a winning season, four franchises will have been created in Major League Baseball and all of them will have been to the World Series. Talk about your all-time depressing stats.
As bad as it has been for the Reds, the Pirates have had it much worse.
"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling
that is really depressing
they havent won since Bonds. yikes.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 16, 2008 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions
I could go for a decade of the Reds and Pirates battling for the division title
"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling
it would be nice
let the Cubs and Cards spend a few years in the basement. i like that.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 16, 2008 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Here's hoping that Uncle Walt agrees with you Charlie
Sgt. McCAin and Sarah The Impaler don't scare me none.
I have been officially accpeted by the ISA program
to go to Argentina this spring.
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
Congrats dude
I had a friend who dated an Argentinian girl for a little while. Cute as a button as I recall.
Sorry, that’s about all I got when it comes to Argentina.
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
ISA is a good program
take it from me, your friendly Study Abroad Office employee.
Seriously, Argentina is a pretty cool place, I really plan on hitting up Patagonia at some point in my life. It’s also the “Europe of South America” with like, no ethnic diversity whatsoever. And steaks! Oh my goodness do they know how to do red meat there!
...because there's already someone posing as Jacob Brumfield
i've read that i can get a steak and a glass of wine for $10
i will be needing you guys to keep me up to date on the Reds. I do not know what my internet connection will be like, I will be living with a host family. If they have DSL, i will get MLB.tv, but otherwise, i’ll be reading your recaps.
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
by justin007000 on Oct 16, 2008 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions
No one here cares probably
But I got it, I got my Resistance 2 beta code! W00t!
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
No one here cares probably (except maybe jch)
but my herpes test came back negative!
(was this not the proper forum to announce that?)
"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling
Dammit Slyde... we're gonna beat this...
Oh. Well apparently, in the medical community… negative means good. Which makes no sense. In the real world community that would be chaos.
"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands
by BK on Oct 16, 2008 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
I am rec'ing you on behalf of chandrathan and myself.
by Brendanukkah on Oct 16, 2008 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions
No one here cares
But I am in Philadelphia and just had lunch in the Reading Market. There was a place selling cupcakes with the Phillies logo. I got one to commemorate their World Series appearance. It was delicious. Everyone around here is wearing Phillies stuff.
I want so badly to eat a Reds championship cupcake.
by Brendanukkah on Oct 16, 2008 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions
If they look half as good as these look, I'm with ya.
"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands
by BK on Oct 16, 2008 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions
I've never been a fan of Red Velvet cake
Or candy topped cupcakes. But I’d eat a dozen of them if the Reds made the playoffs.
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
red velvet cake has always pissed me off
it just looks like it should be a lot better than it actually is
by chandrathan on Oct 16, 2008 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Blame Slyde's mom
"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands
by BK on Oct 16, 2008 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Reading Market kinda kicks ass, doesn't it?
I went with some friends last year. I plan on doing it again before I get the hell out of DC. Its probably my favorite part of Philly, besides the Schyulkill
...because there's already someone posing as Jacob Brumfield
You need to be tested again
So say the cold soars on my mouth. Whore.
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
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