Sun&Mon, June 15-16.
An Irregular Series
ECU scores by way of picture-perfect service to an unmarked man in the box who finishes with a spot-on header.
The suisse are physical. Grabbing, chasing, bumping. They are generating good hard shots just outside of the box and strong low crosses from the corners of the box. Especially from the right side.
SUI seems unable to play any quick passing, so too ECU.
SUI seems to rely on two-level passing... thiis is likely in part due to the depth of the ECU defense. ECU seems content to counter, and seemed so from the start. Doubly so now that they have a goal in hand.
Really like the SUI red kit. The vertical flank lines are pleasingly straight and plain.
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And now SUI scores! On a header by a marked man off a corner... he held his ground quite well against the ECU defender and got a very solid head on it.
More hard 20-25yd shots from SUI.
I do not appreciate the attitude problem of SUI. Lots of exaggerated falls, arms wide, palms up in the univeral sign for "whaaaaaat?" And complaining to teammates as well.
Looks like SUI got jobbed on that offsides call. Can't be off on an opponent's play, right?
Looks like #9 from SUI didn't get the skintight shirt memo.
HOLY SUISSE STOPPAGE TIME GOAL!!!
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Argentina, thus fa, has benefitted from a ball bouncing off of a stationary defenderr into the net. BIH needed #3 to not cower on the cross and instead head it away. He really ducked down to get under that one.
That Messi is just so quick and has very good vision.
Are the refs wearing golf shirts? Why would they have the spine-stipe for refs? The weird yellow-orange on yellow is a trip too.
MESSI GOAL!!!
I see it glanced off of a BIH defender, but that was all Messi.
Y'all gotta quit it with these fugazi whistles in the stands.
And BIH is back in it! The most dangerrous lead in the game is 2-0! 85min in, and now BIH has the lift in their step.
Yo, BIH, yyou're gonna wanna put more than 5 up against their 7 back wwhen you've got 5 or so minutes to score.
Feels like ARG has more men in attack and more men in defense. BIH just doesn't seem to be able to keep up. Or even "be" as frequently as they need to.
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And now we've moved on to The Day The Death Starts.
GER v POR
I always really enjoy the POR jerseys. this yeah, so far, no exceptions. When they founded "Portugal" did they just pick the best colours for their flag as the whole basis for a country?
Cool that POR is playing at the spot that they discovered... in kind of a weird colonial way. That's the weirdness of world sport. Quadruply o for the World Cup. There is all this weird y'know... histroy behind the teams that has noting at all and everything to do with the team itself.
I like when players sing or mouth the words to their national anthems. I like when folks attendings game do that too.
And TAKE YOUR HAT OFF.
This GER side really has one of the most... coherent set of players in the Cup. The rest of the teams have more repeat-players. Like, doubling up on identical players.
Anyway, on to the watching.
20140616
World Cup Volume 4
20140613
World Cup Volume 3
Fri, June 13.
An Irregular Series
Eto'o is not as fast as he once was.
A great goal by MEX raken away. So far MEX is ending all of their possessions in shots. CAM is not completing passes in attack and seem confused as to what next to do. There go-to must then be a counter-attack, perhaps.
A couple of corner kicks for CAM.
Now a MEX player kicks a CAM player in the ribs. Foul. Appropriate, but overacted.
CAM generates a great scoring opportunity and shot with a hard run down the right flank with a cross onto the striker's foot. Miss by just a sidebar. Keeper was there too.
Now madness off of the corner in front of the MEX goal. Eto'o just sets up in front of the goal waiting for slop. Aging still effective strikers, man.
Wow, now a great MEX set piece... shoulda been a goal.
MEX still generating attacking runs which CAM must make tackles on. Thus far they have done so.
And now MEX scores on a set piece!
NOOO! Another flag! Let's see the replay! Oh wow... they might have gotten that right, technically, butnot... i mean... that's tight.
OH, that Forward Peralta has to get a foot on the ball there... a redirect, anything. MEX still looking superior, however, CAM has shown the ability to beat individual defenders in tight spaces.
MEX still talking to the refs in the rain. Man is it coming down out there.
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MEX creates a two-step attack on that one-- setting up the body from an offsides position which will then be onsides when your teammate receives it.
"The keeper didn't know much about it but that didn't prevent him from saving it."
MEX finally breaks though the initial disappointment and scores a second-chance goal on a carom off of the CAM keeper.
And THAT is why you trail the play actively, waiting for a chance.
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SPA v NED is looking as-advertised. A little less possession than ESP would like, nice incisive attacks for NED.
Wow a PK for that? Looked like he didn't make contact to me.
Perfect ball to get the pass there though.
And Spain is up 1-0.
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Wow, RVP really made a fantastic header there from distance. A nice run and a passable ball through to him, but a fantastic header in what is normally no-man's land. Nice first half here.
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ROBBEN IS GOING LEFT.
ROBBEN IS SCORING WITH HIS LEFT.
And then the floods.
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And like that, CHI has scored 2 on AUS in 13+ minutes.
They are attacking attacking attacking.
Like The Spurs on The Heat.
Like they're playing their younger brothers.
Not sure I'll need to keep watching this one afterall.
I mean, my father often said that 2-0 is the most dangerous lead in the game.. but these guys are playing for their countries, right?
I mean, that makes a lead more or less dangerous to hold?
28:00
World Cup Vol 2.
an Irregular Series.
Croatia starts aggressive. Gets a shot on goal.
Brazil now in charge. Charging ahead.
Croata gets a turn and charges ahead, getting a solid cross... but to no one.
Now some back and forth into a wide Brazilian free kick.
Across, a couple of BRA headers... no goal.
Modric creates a shot for another cross... tight header... woah. Almost Croatian lead.
Another dangerous cross...
OWN GOAL!.
Brazil down. 0-1, 11th minute. woah.
Both teams now agitated. Aggressive.
Croatia has a religious goalkeeper? Could this end up like the Stanley Cup? Hot GK wins?
More breakdowns in the back for Brazil, and then a brilliant cross which BRA cannot finish. This could be the World Cup recotrd breaker for BRA like 2014 MLU play was to the Boston Whitecaps.
Oh. I assume some oh you know that whole MLU thing. YOu may not.
Back to the footy.
Much more confidence and excellence from Brasil Now.
STill dangerous CRO attacking. They get to the endlines, and make dangerous crosses back. They attack as you advance up the field.
NEYMAR.
This is going to be a great World Cup.
Nice size-difference subsitution putting #20 in for HULK.
These teams are showing the sort of timidity that I expect tosee challenged by USMNT.
TERRIBLE DIVE rewarded for Brazil!
PK Time. Neymar again?
Nice quick rythhmdance attack, NM,Jr.
GK prolly shoulda grabbed that with one of hte both hands he hit it with.
It is certainly not beyond CRO to score again before this ends though.
Nice advantage playon there... nice... goal!! for CRO!
Oh.. no... i'm not sure what the call here is... ? Announcers are saying for something on the GK? Boo. Bad call ref. Long-standing soccer tradition, I know... but bad call.
And a well executed goal to finish 'em from Oscar. That's one hell of a toe poke, Oscar.
BRA 3 CRO 1.
BRA still attacking... FRED pulls up lame... They looks like they may yet pay for these 3 points with blood.
Now cramping? these guys conna get the LEbron tratment for cramps?
CRO will probably score some goals this tourney. They get balls into the box. They got jobbed on that penalty. Neymar is very sprightly yet powerful.
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This show is now like 300 miles away from the game? Ohright, BRA is a big place.
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Now today I look forward to every single game. The centerpiece is clearly
SPA v NET
Spain Netherlands
Espana Nederlands
ESP v NED
Two nations of footballing idealists. There are egos galore, and skill which justifies it. But how will it shake out this time as each team will truly debut themselves after their last battle? Quick aggressive passing and forceful recovery versus longer range-slicing passing and the holding ability and SNEIJDER AND ARJEN AND RVP (the last of whom I intensely dislike despite his ability).
Not to be underestimated is the opener of
Mexico v Cameroon
MEX v CAM
There hould be a basic contrast of styles which is appealing in the World Cup, a well as two teams full of aspiration at this point in play.
And we finish with the always aggressive
Chile v Australia
CHI v AUS
Australia is always a hard team to predict for me in any international sport. They just have athletes down under and any given generation in any given sport that has a group of particularly talented and dedicated big people is dangerous. This works in American Sport as well. The issues for each preventing soccer from dominating are country-based football variants, other professional field sports leagues, and whatever else.
Chile has always been team which plays to score. They will do whatever they need to do and do it aggressively. This should be a telling match for both teams.
There are no take-backs or do overs at the World Cup.
But there IS extended "Advantage, play-on..."
On to the soccer-watching.
20140612
World Cup Volume 1.
Thurs, June 12.
Folks are all talking about Klinsman.
As they should be
As he wants us to be.
But most are underestimating his intelligence.
By that I mean that he's speaking clearly from a philosophical seat of removal.
He's not in the game and thus far, nothing in the World Cup has happened.
The World Cup is a different world for as long as it lasts.
Sure it contains nations, but the nations are not at war with one another until
The World Cup begins, and then when it is over,
The Worlds are no longer at this type of war.
No matter which team he would be coaching at this point, Klinsman would say that it is too early to talk about chances to win the World Cup. It is not a statement about the USMNT. It is a statement about him Klimsman and his beliefs. He would not presume to speak for his team as a whole, I think.
But then again, I think.
Not time for this first opening display of futbol, football, soccer, &c.
Brazil
Brasil
BRA vs Croatia
CRO.
Nice.
20131015
thank yeezus?
Is that the idea here?
Because I'm not sure that the swagger you display is as new as it once was.
Good work though. Nice to expand your palette. Your raps are in your voice these days. We're happy you found it. We're happy you're happy and finding a place for your particular box of crayons.
But you aren't breaking through new walls here. You're just giving us good, solid beats, rhymes and life.
Keep going. Keep recording. Keep building. Keep putting down who and what you are.
But it is never the first time we've heard anything like it before because you're in each of them. You're part of it. We've already heard you declare yourself a king.
Keep going, keep building. Keep going. What do you have in you? Time tells. Ask David Bowie.
Ask the Rolling Stones. Ask Ask ask. You'll never know know know what the trip is like for you until it's too late to tell anyone. Ask BB King. He'll sing each moment of it for you though. Somehow.
What a trip you're on. What a mind twist. What a tweak but a confirmation. I wonder what happens when you type the way I type. The way I write. How much of you is straight and how much of you is indirect? How much is the word as it is the world in your head, and how much is the translation in art? How much imagination. How much desire. How much energy.
By our escape velocity they will remember having known us.
You know there's no exit before the exit, right?
In part because I can't imagine your real life,
I'll just see you on the astral plane.
You don't have to do it for us, yeez.
You can always do it for you, Mr. West.
You're officially interesting enough that you never need pander. Just keep following the dream.
But this album isn't as big a deal as it sounds itself to be. *Damn* fine though.
Thanks.
20131010
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External v Internal
(Not to imply that everything is all-or-nothing.)
I've decided that I do not think Romney can be president. He's too fake. He's just a big uncomfortable, scared of being exposed faker of fakiness. He has true belief, I believe, but that is not the lens through which he allows himself to speak, publicly. His public persona's expressed paradigm is far more pragmatic. Far more "polished". By that I mean buffed to a sterling Sheen. Shine.
Mitt Romney suffers from Internal Dissonance Disorder. That is, unlike all of the presidents (and most candidates) he doesn't lay claim to what he actually *is* and express that fully, if thoroughly edited by his team. Romney lays claim to *what you want him to be*. Explicitly. This is a strategy that President Obama used to great success *implicitly*. He advertised Hope, which is something we all want to have. He never has to speak about race, because of the color of his skin. So we project upon him. His intelligence is never questioned. His public persona, while irritatingly frustrated-with-his-sub-par-students professorial in nature, is essentially him. The mistakes that he makes are Obama mistakes. The mistakes G.W. Bush made were Dubya mistakes. Clinton clearly made Clinton mistakes. And so on. What are Romney mistakes?
Mitt keeps trying to be one of us, deny that he's a cold-blooded money machine, claim that he was never moderate and will not compromise, and give the same damn speech to everyone, whether they like it or not. And the speech stinks. Not his ideas or whatever, it just stinks. It is not fun to listen to, and it does not reach out to anything but my wallet and his ideas on what I should do with it. And other wallets around the country, for corpora-eople everywhere. He believes he knows what will fix our wallets. And it is by fixing education and reducing the government that he proposes to do this. Wait... what? Is that because your plan is to replace public sector teacher jobs with non-unionized private sector teacher jobs? Slowly destroy any and all unions piece by piece?
I think I went off there again.
My point is, about about the rest of our lives that aren't our wallets?
I don't know what Mitt feels/thinks about the world. I don't know how Mitt wants to shape the world. I don't know which issues get to the core of him. I know that Mitt is about the Money (and this is America-- That's Great.) but why won't he just say "I love making money, and I am an effective dispassionate calculator of expected returns " and get it over with? Then we can move on to other things and stop with the pretending. Would it put him too close to The Donald?
I don't want someone playing at being someone they're not as my President.
For his failings, President Obama is not different in persona despite his power and his up and down experiences. He has not meet all of his promises, and he has failed and succeeded in his first term. He has put some ideals-based legislation forward in what he believes (and is not too far off from what he expressed as a candidate) is best for the country. This is what most first-term presidents are like. Reasonably consistent persona, reasonable anticipated agendas. Nothing totally dissonant.
Romney is totally dissonant. Publicly dissonant. And frankly, he tends to look uncomfortable with and around his fellow humans.
What happens when he meets with foreign (and domestic for that matter) leaders and all they feel is "goddamnitall I'm not sure his words would recognize his brain in the parking lot"?
If he would just be himself and believe that was enough, or if he could just hide his dissonance better (I would argue that this is what made the first President Bush so weird-- is that his intelligence&willpower allowed him to reconcile most internal dissonance before the brain engaged the body, but having your guard up 100% of the time is impossible. And it takes a damn toll.) he'd be fine. But he can't or hasn't learned that he needs to. Or to be very cynical, he feels that the best cold calculation to election is to appear dissonant. Which seems an odd tactic. Anyway.
If Al Gore was the amazingly life-like candidate who invented the Internet, Mitt Romney is the Wax Statue candidate who refuses to talk about what's underneath his ice-cream paintjob because he's no meteorologist, but golly, he sure knows that D.C. is hotter-n-heck.