The lawyer job is quit! Long live the lawyer job!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Zach Dundas:

• One thing that continues to puzzle me, though, is why My Fellow Americans have such a fixation about diving. Yes, it's a disgrace to the game and all that, but aren't the big-time American sports full of cheaters and whiners, too? It seems like every NFL player breaks some rule on every play, and baseball is now a well-known chemistry experiment. As far as I can tell, the NBA consists almost entirely of Kobe and Shaq trying to game the refs, while the refs nervously check their Blackberries at every time out for their latest instructions from various Sicilian fraternal organizations. So what's the big deal with some skinny Italian boys rolling around like little bunnies in the meadow? I think it's kind of cute—but then again, a soccer fan would, right?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Zach Dundas:

• So what's the big deal with some skinny Italian boys rolling around like little bunnies in the meadow? I think it's kind of cute—but then again, a soccer fan would, right?

Isn't the NBA going to fine people for flopping next year? Or course, it's the europeans who flop the most . . . Kobe just whines and whines.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Zach Dundas:

• One thing that continues to puzzle me, though, is why My Fellow Americans have such a fixation about diving. Yes, it's a disgrace to the game and all that, but aren't the big-time American sports full of cheaters and whiners, too? It seems like every NFL player breaks some rule on every play, and baseball is now a well-known chemistry experiment. As far as I can tell, the NBA consists almost entirely of Kobe and Shaq trying to game the refs, while the refs nervously check their Blackberries at every time out for their latest instructions from various Sicilian fraternal organizations. So what's the big deal with some skinny Italian boys rolling around like little bunnies in the meadow? I think it's kind of cute—but then again, a soccer fan would, right?

I think it's b/c it's not very "manly" to flop (in any sport). It makes one look weak and fragile.

My HS soccer coach always told me to go down in the penalty box when contact was made, but I refused to do it. They were going to have to take me down hard. Even though it defied logic, I always tried my best to stay up. I also used to throw defenders down by their jersey while I was dribbling, so maybe this anecdote doesn't really have a point.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
maybe this anecdote doesn't really have a point.

sure it does. You were coached by a european poofter whose advice you took sometimes (grab shirts) and didn't other times (always dive in the box).

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Zach Dundas:

• One thing that continues to puzzle me, though, is why My Fellow Americans have such a fixation about diving. Yes, it's a disgrace to the game and all that, but aren't the big-time American sports full of cheaters and whiners, too? It seems like every NFL player breaks some rule on every play, and baseball is now a well-known chemistry experiment. As far as I can tell, the NBA consists almost entirely of Kobe and Shaq trying to game the refs, while the refs nervously check their Blackberries at every time out for their latest instructions from various Sicilian fraternal organizations. So what's the big deal with some skinny Italian boys rolling around like little bunnies in the meadow? I think it's kind of cute—but then again, a soccer fan would, right?

...little bunnies made of ticky-tack!

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
sure it does. You were coached by a european poofter whose advice you took sometimes (grab shirts) and didn't other times (always dive in the box).

Actually, he was American, but he wanted to be european. Every nice ball or run was "lovely".

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
In typical Globe fashion, that article is not on the editorial page.

Ever since the Times Corp took over, the news staff has been gutted and the paper pretty much sucks. It's slightly more objective and better written than the Herald but there's not much else to distinguish the two papers these days.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I just found out a couple of weeks ago too. I've had Ricky Gervaise tickets forever (I think that they went on sale in February or March for a July show) but I randomly heard people in Dallas talking about an Eddie Izzard show and ran home to find out when/where he would be in LA. Luckily he has enough shows that they weren't all sold out... Was he as wonderful as always??

It's this Friday. I'll let you know if he's as awesome as always.

And thanks for the heads up on the Ricky Gervais show. I saw his last stand up last time around and it was brilliant.

TM

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I think it's b/c it's not very "manly" to flop (in any sport). It makes one look weak and fragile.

My HS soccer coach always told me to go down in the penalty box when contact was made, but I refused to do it. They were going to have to take me down hard. Even though it defied logic, I always tried my best to stay up. I also used to throw defenders down by their jersey while I was dribbling, so maybe this anecdote doesn't really have a point.

I don't think it defies logic. I think Didier Drogba became a much more dangerous player after he stopped diving every time somebody looked at him in the box. Sometimes he would get a call, sometimes not. But now that he stays on his feet, he almost always gets a rocket of a shot off.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
It's this Friday. I'll let you know if he's as awesome as always.

And thanks for the heads up on the Ricky Gervais show. I saw his last stand up last time around and it was brilliant.

TM

you'd think a guy who got famous with a show about an office in a little town in the middle of nowhere would take his stand up beyond LA and NYC. At lease stop in cicago in between.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Actually, he was American, but he wanted to be european. Every nice ball or run was "lovely".

That's hardly unique, though. It seems like there are tons of american soccer fans who take on european affectations in discussing/watching soccer. My personal favorite is the "soccer scarf" in team colors, which makes some sense for league games in Europe that are typically played in the late fall, winter, early spring. But for D.C. United in the middle of summer in D.C.? Yeah, that makes sense.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I don't think it defies logic. I think Didier Drogba became a much more dangerous player after he stopped diving every time somebody looked at him in the box. Sometimes he would get a call, sometimes not. But now that he stays on his feet, he almost always gets a rocket of a shot off.

Plus, if you're on offense in the box, you can pretty much run over the defender without getting called for it.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
That's hardly unique, though. It seems like there are tons of american soccer fans who take on european affectations in discussing/watching soccer. My personal favorite is the "soccer scarf" in team colors, which makes some sense for league games in Europe that are typically played in the late fall, winter, early spring. But for D.C. United in the middle of summer in D.C.? Yeah, that makes sense.

Well, I grew up in a small town in the midwest. We thought he was a fucking weirdo.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Well, I grew up in a small town in the midwest. We thought he was a fucking weirdo.

I didn't mean to suggest it wasn't. My soccer coach was a brit, or claimed to be, and wore the exceptionally short shorts in an effort to prove it. And by short, I mean "short" even by 1986 NBA standards. That alone made us think he was a weirdo. On the other hand, we were all very impressed that he hit on ever female teacher in the school at one point or another.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Well, I grew up in a small town in the midwest. We thought he was a fucking weirdo.

Did you suck on chili dogs at the tastee freeze?