The Swamp

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Totally agree on Rapinoe...she's been a great player, but her best days are past her. I think Ellis needs to make the tough decision just like with Wambach 4 years ago. Would love to see Lloyd, Press, and Heath up top. And Horan in the mid-field. Lloyd has lost more steps than Rapinoe. I love them ...

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I know this is a RIDICULOUS way to assess these things, but... As mentioned, poll numbers the summer before the primaries are notoriously "wrong" in terms of predicting the outcome. At this point, it's all about momentum and the appearance of potentially being able to make a deep run. A l...

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Hard to doubt Michigan at this point, but that's a rough matchup. Thinking it's gonna go to a winner take all game. (That said, that Kauffman kid who is probably pitching for Michigan today is damn good.) MI lost a close out game to Creighton and came back and beat the tar out of them in the next g...

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MI continues it's crazy ass run with a fairly dominant 7-4 win last night. They did so while being not so great with runners in scoring position. They face Kumar Rocker* tonight for a shot at the title. Dude threw a no-no against Duke in the Super Regional, so... Challenging foe, to be sure. * - If ...

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I know this is a RIDICULOUS way to assess these things, but... I've listened to a ton of Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It, including all of their live shows over the last 2-3 months. The one thing that has been really striking is how those crowds are EXTREMELY pro-Warren. No one comes even cl...

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I think you guys both summed up my position, so I'm gonna co-sign without permission. I mean, even the tofu isn't really the type of stuff I used to complain about. My mom turned vegetarian when I was 10 or so, and she would constantly put tofu in shit so I could get the protein. I fucking hated tha...

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Wait, we're going to struggle to qualify now? Because we had two shitty Friendly matches in the run-up to a third tier (well, to be fair, Oceania is horrid and in a possible 4th tier all by itself) confederation tournament in an off-year? I went on a very long, very detailed rant about the Lost Gen...

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I... disagree?

I mean, I'm not fired up about miso soup when I eat Japanese, but I'm not turning it down when offered.

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I actually thought both of the PK calls were lame.

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Not a single comment after the 6-0 revenge match over T&T? Sure, T&T looked really weak, but I'll take it. Pulisic looks sharp and hungry, Boyd is a threat against minnows, and I'm not overly excited, but hey, maybe he can be dangerous against good teams too? I'm convinced they discovered A...

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I completely forgot the game was on after a long day of yard work and then grilling and wine drinking. :D

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The only other comment I'll make is that I'm just not sure about Jill Ellis. Morgan was not herself today and she was getting hacked to shit when she touched the ball. I don't understand keeping her out there until the 85th minute. Just in general, you have all of this talent sitting on your bench, ...

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Spain is a tough squad. Over the last 2 cycles, they've gone from a pretty shitty side to one now that can absolutely hang with any team in the tournament. US had really played one game of any true talent test, and that game had zero stakes. (They looked darn good, without any real pressure involve...

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Spain is a tough squad. Over the last 2 cycles, they've gone from a pretty shitty side to one now that can absolutely hang with any team in the tournament. US had really played one game of any true talent test, and that game had zero stakes. (They looked darn good, without any real pressure involve...

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Spain is a tough squad. Over the last 2 cycles, they've gone from a pretty shitty side to one now that can absolutely hang with any team in the tournament. US had really played one game of any true talent test, and that game had zero stakes. (They looked darn good, without any real pressure involved...

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Tell ya what I DO like... They aren't fucking with extra time in this tournament. Routinely seeing it up past 5 minutes.

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Rapinoe is bugging me this tournament. She doesn't have the legs to just run by ppl and I think she holds onto the ball too much in final 3rd. Morgan needs to see the ball more, quite frankly. I love Rapinoe, but I tend to agree with you. She's looking her age. She's a disaster at the moment. ...an...

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L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:30 pmBury this.

Ice.

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Rapinoe is bugging me this tournament. She doesn't have the legs to just run by ppl and I think she holds onto the ball too much in final 3rd. Morgan needs to see the ball more, quite frankly. I love Rapinoe, but I tend to agree with you. She's looking her age. She's a disaster at the moment. Yeah,...

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On the positive side, Ertz is owning the middle of the park.

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Rapinoe is bugging me this tournament. She doesn't have the legs to just run by ppl and I think she holds onto the ball too much in final 3rd. Morgan needs to see the ball more, quite frankly.

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Not a very good decision or placement of the pass from the GK there. She put the defender in a spot where she really only had 2 options, neither of them good (play it right back or spray it out wide to the right side of the field--the way she was facing for both). With that said, the player receivin...

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It goes back to what I was babbling about the other night re: PKs... The foul is supposed to be punished appropriately. You commit a "direct" level foul in the penalty box, you should be punished for that with the opponent getting a shot on goal with a high percentage chance of making it. ...

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Can't let them get a quick restart. If you don't back off when the ref says go back maybe, but standing on the ball after a foul is standard. What I'm saying is: - It didn't use to be this blatant/standard. - It is expressly against the rules. Law 13 if you want to look it up. 10 yards from the spo...

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And anotherfuckingthing...

Card these motherFUCKERS that keep stepping in front of the ball on foul calls. Card-card-card. They used to at least try to enforce that. Now they let these players get away with murder.

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I really don't know when it changed that goalies aren't being protected anymore. I can tell you, I've had a player concussed multiple times in the net. It has been subtle, but back when I started playing, it was just understood that you back off of a goalie in a 50/50 and if you run the goalie, you'...

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I've retired the "R" word, but the announcers on on this FRA/BRA game are fucking dumb. The fact that they couldn't figure out that the disallowed goal was bc the French player barreled into the goalie is fucking amazing. I thought in real time the goal should've been waved off for that re...

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Game was so close to being dicey for England. Yeah, right after that disallowed goal*, Cameroon really should've scored with the ball sitting in the box. Then a dagger goal off the corner and the game is effectively over. Still enjoyed the second half, as Cameroon played their hearts out. England l...

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Vandy vs. Michigan, starting Monday.

Holy wow. Should be a really great matchup.

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Rooting for chaos on the other side of the bracket, so far so good.

L'ville and Vandy tied at 2 in the bottom of the 9th. Vandy wins, and it's a nerd final series. Cards win, and they play again tomorrow.

As I was typing, Vandy now up 1.

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First CWS final for MI since 1962.

Absolutely dominating on the mound. First team since 1990 (GA) to get to the final using only 3 pitchers.

15-3 against a TTU team that swept them earlier in the year.

Pretty unreal.

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The hockey team only went that route some time in the late 80s (I think?), definitely wasn't like that when I was a rink rat at Yost in the 70s and early 80s.

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Well, not to take a valid point and kind of shit on it, but...

MI's "winter" semester wraps up end of April and Commencement is typically the first week or of May. I have no idea how things work out for others schools that end later.

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MI playing Tex Tech right now for shot at going to the 2 of 3 title series. They are 2-0 and a win this afternoon would do it. Lose today and they play again tomorrow. They are up 2-0 going into the T2. Lots of game left, of course. Anyways, I just heard a nugget that was pretty amazing. Because the...

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I know I've trotted out the Fucking Moron tag a whole bunch, but... The guy is actively pushing the notion that his is the first presidency run as a reality TV show. Now, I'm not saying that he sat down and scripted out every episode of The Apprentice, but... A lot of what he does is meant to begin ...

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surprised to not see any discussion on Copa America. guess you're too busy watching Women's or U20. did you catch this one? the pass alone... the shot... maybe i'm biased. maybe not. There's also the Gold Cup. Honestly, it's just difficult to keep track of all of it. I watched the end of Japan-Urug...

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Just got into a new one today: Dead Pilot's Society. Very good premise: Each episode, they bring in quality actors to do a table read of a pilot that got all the way through development (paid for a script, then months and months of "notes" from studio/network people) only to not get past t...

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Just to tease it out a bit: The penalty kick was VERY originally meant to right a wrong. The advantage was supposed to be pretty stupendously in favor of the aggrieved team having been denied a goal. So, in the instance of an obvious handball or a shitty tackle in the box, yeah, PK. But to add a bit...

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Whoa.

1) PK for stuff where it's denying a goal.

2) Penalty shot back a yard or two when it's PK to settle a squabble.

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The stuff that's been going on in junior hockey has been a problem for DECADES.

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