Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

The French and Mexican (more Mexican than French, I think, but I'm ridiculously biased in this game) fans have made a valiant effort to sing over the din of the vuvuzulas. I think they may be winning.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

The Argentine fans seemed to be getting past the vuvuzelas this morning. That, or ESPN has used an equalizer to cut out sound at the vuvuzela frequency. Oh, and you could hear a pin drop at the end of yesterday's RSA-Uruguay match.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Well, my experience is more like yours, although I still care a bit about basketball when it involves memories of the great rivalry of my youth. ;) Also, I started playing soccer ten or twelve years ago after not playing since high school, which is what got me interested in watching it. Just as I am sure there are some British adults who have become passionate MLB fans.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

As noted, a perfect game is not a scoreless tie. The other side still won at least 1-0. And there have only been 21 (?) in history.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Me too!

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I was thinking that rooting for Brazil is like rooting for the tanks to crush that guy in Tienanmen Square.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Except if the tanks are being driven by half naked women and the guy in the square is a completely insane dictator.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

This has Scinemax written all over it. Or Formula 1 commissioner shenanigans.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

The horns don't really bother me. As background noise goes I don't think it's that much better or worse th
an the usual.

Also, who would root for France?

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

More vulva.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Mulva?

TM

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I grew up playing soccer. It is still my most favorite sport to play.

I love watching the World Cup, but I just can't seem to get interested in soccer at any other time.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I don't understand soccer so maybe a scoreless game can be interesting without many attempts on goals.

But I do understand hockey and a scoreless hockey game with few shots on goal would be less interesting for me even if it was because of excellent defense. What can I say -- I like to see people trying to score goals.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

The Arizona legislature.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Tom Tancredo may be the one guy in this watering hole dressed in blue.

Meanwhile there are two attractive youn ladies at the bar next to me to whom I am not talking. Pathetic.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I predict a shockingly boring tie between Mexico and Uruguay next week.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I *heart* Maradona.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

AoN, just had lunch in a bar here in LA to watch the game, and found the crowd to be enormously and boisterously pro-Mexico (or, at least, anti-France, an issue on which I am sure we can all mainly agree.)

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

A few days ago, I was moaning and groaning that poor Mexico had no one rooting for them in that first game against SA. My incredulous boyfriend looked at me and when he regained his power of speech, said "there are 45 million people in this country alone that are rooting for Mexico." "Oh. Right."

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

But will you like him in the second round?

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Which is why U.S.-Mexico WC qualifiers are played in such locales as Columbus, Ohio.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I thought that was something the fans were doing themselves. where does it come from?

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

but say if there are only 1000 Mexican people there- they still are likely the only 1000 people who care.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Will you like him fried or boiled?
Will you like him poached or broiled?

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Vulvas. It's one long choreographed queef.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I expect TM to keep updating. Breasticle Day II involved new breasts, not the same pics from BD-I. There were good reasons for that.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

So the exciting part of the perfect game is all the runs scored by the winning team?

Woo-hoo! Another walk!

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Yeah, in a scoreless soccer game no one is even trying to score goals. It's mostly passing practice.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Get back to me after Uruguay/Mexico.

ziduzela
 

http://cdn.wl.uproxx.com/wp-content/...zzzzzidane.gif

TM

Floppage
 

For RT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-9RF...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzeKi...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Ht_...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCX9Q...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RKo_...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r7vz...layer_embedded

For Gatti:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqPBJ...layer_embedded

TM

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

This could happen, but if you're Mexico, don't you think you can take the win and claim top seed. It could make a big difference in who you face in the knockout round. But who knows, maybe it will be a tea party.

I think there is something about a culture of playing for ties that may be more prevalent now, at least with some teams. I understand why Portugal and Ivory Coast would be content with a tie, although it seems that by not playing for the win, you are just deferring the inevitable(unless they think they can knock off Brazil). If I were either team, I would much rather go out hard gamble on a first round win than hope that I can beat North Korea by more goals than the other team can (or lose to Brazil by fewer goals). What really got me was the last play of the game. Ivory Coast has a corner and time has essentially run out. If they swing it in toward net, there is a decent possibility they could score the last second goal and snatch a heroic victory. The downside risk is the almost infinitessimal chance that Portugal will somehow intercept the corner, take it down the field and score in a half second. Instead, they play the corner short and the game is over. Why? Have soccer teams gotten so conservative that the one in a thousand chance Portugal can counterattack with a half second left outweighs the one in ten chance that you can score off the corner and be sitting pretty in the group of death. If so, then pansies like S-G E are indeed making the game more boring.

Re: ziduzela
 

That is awesome.

Re: Floppage
 

After Ronaldo's tenth flop in the Portugal-Ivory Coast match, one commentator noted that it appeared that he might go down with a "puff of wind."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H2I3CuZxnE

Re: ziduzela
 

people keep insisting that soccer is very popular, but the only people i have ever seen play it are kids and frenchmen.

-- @jjonahjameson

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

OK to clarify: I like to see people getting close enough to the net/goal to take shots on goal. Happy now?

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Yes. You've moved beyond silly statements to acknowledging that you view excellent defense as boring.

Unless, apparently, that defense occurs in a baseball game and takes four fucking hours.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Who then wins the tiebreaker for first place in the group and who do they each then play?

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Um, Uruguay? B/c of their better goal differential? Or is this a trick question?

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I am sitting in an airport lounge and didn't know. So who would they each play next?