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Well despite my public shunning, deep in my heart I was rooting for team USA to pull of the win in La Copa Munda and move on to the next round. It was not to be. The US was done in by several factors: poor play and bad officiating. The US played timid uninspired soccer for two of three games managing only four shots on goal the entire tournament. When you don't play aggressive you need a well officiated game. The US didn't get the benefit of the calls (in fact the officiating reminded me of Game 6 where looking funny at the other team resulted in fouls) and as a result they are going home without a chance to redeem themselves until 2010.
On the plus side the team that took the U.S.'s spot was Ghana. Now for those that didn't watch the Czech v. Ghana game during the celebration of the first goal scoring one of the Ghanaian players (John Pentsil) unveiled an Israeli flag. Now at first I thought I had taken one too many roundhouse kicks in an under ground martial arts tournament. However, it turns out that Pentsil just wanted to give a shout out to his club team (which happens to be in the Israeli league).
On the really good side my Socceroos of Australia pulled off yet another comeback, this time against Croatia. The Aussies late game heroics are becoming legendary at this point and nobody should be taking them lightly. Well maybe those man crush inspiring Brazillians but the Australians don't have to play them until the championship game.
Cheers: To Bud Selig. I tried really hard to come up with something nice to say after his handling of Ozzie Guillen this week (the only relevant questions reporters should have for Ozzie anymore is: "How long have you been posing as a human being and why are you so bad at it?". It finally dawned on me….old Bud is evidence that evolution is indeed true. I'm sorry there's no way something intelligently designed Bud Selig. Obviously he arose out of some primitive life form that existed before the backbone came about. I'm guessing he evolved from a steaming pile of poop but I never paid any attention in biology.
Jeers: To baseball over this story on MLB.tv blackouts. I'm really trying how this policy would be good to grow baseball as a whole and I'm just drawing a blank. Of course I didn't evolve out of pile of poop so that too would make sense.
Jeers: To curses. This week we officially got the newest member to the Sports Curse club. Some big curses currently afflicting sports today includes: Curse of Rocky Calavito, Billy Goat Curse and the Madden Curse (Note Sports Illustrated is a Jinx not a curse. See Hecatate's 8th edition Spells, Curses and Jinxes for differences between the two). Anyway the new curse is: The Dolan Curse. The Dolan's as a family seem to have the reverse Midas' touch. The Dolan brand sports teams put on a display this week, between Indians quickly turning into the KC Royals and the Knicks firing of Larry Brown, that just reinforced how dysfunctional those organizations are.
Cheers: To the NFL. Mini-Camps started up. June is nearing its end and so the great football prognosticating can begin. My top 3 most competitive divisions (note I define competitive divisions as divisions in which the greatest number of teams that have the highest chance of making the playoffs) are: NFC East, AFC North, NFC South. Sure why not?
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