- 05:06 AM
- 11/22/09
I didn't realize 7 innings constituted a perfect game. I always thought it was the full 9.
posted by Ricardo at 10:20 AM on September 01
As a Liverpool fan, he looked fan-damn-tastic against us last year. Red cards at both Anfield and Old Trafford.
posted by Ricardo at 04:33 AM on August 19
The fall guy looks like Steve Bartman.
posted by Ricardo at 03:05 PM on August 13
How many here donate their spare time and spare money and other spare resources to help the needy? If having money comes with the obligation to instigate social change, doesn't having free time come with the same?
How many here who condemn Tiger for "only" giving $5M away can take 5 minutes and hand out meals or give needy mothers a ride or volunteer at Goodwill etc?
If Tiger doesn't maximise the endorsements he gets, then maybe he only makes $10 or $20 million a year and wouldn't give away even $5 million.
Won't we be better off trying to figure out how to get rid of the athletes who are bad role models?
posted by Ricardo at 01:23 PM on July 06
It seems to me the work ethic of both on the field is pretty spot on.
It also seems to me that Beckham comes off as the villain not necessarily because of the comments made by Donovan, but by those made by Donovan, Greg Vanney, Chris Klein, the alcohol incident at the steakhouse (regardless of age, a restaurant could get in trouble for serving someone with no ID), the appointment of Byrne in whatever position he held and the appointment of Gullit as coach by Byrne.
I don't really know what kind of GM Alexi Lalas was, but he seemed to do a decent job before all this and I had never heard a complaint about him.
I can't blame Beckham for wanting to go to AC Milan because the World Cup is his ultimate goal (as it should be for any player I think). He came to MLS feeling his England days were over and when that proved not to be true, he wanted to do what he could to help his chances of making the England roster.
Where I think I have fault with Donovan is talking about these things in public when they clearly should be settled behind doors as they are still teammates at least in the technical sense.
I hold out hope that this all pans out somehow though.
posted by Ricardo at 10:39 AM on July 01
Here is the aforementioned Gilbert Godfried impression
posted by Ricardo at 02:27 PM on June 29
And if you watch Brazil's third goal again, Lucio is so surprised his header went in, he did a pretty good Gilbert Godfried impression (face, not voice) as he ran to the sideline.
posted by Ricardo at 01:36 PM on June 29
I just mean lucky in that it could have gone straight to Cesar instead of just out of his reach.
posted by Ricardo at 11:33 AM on June 29
You're right holden. It looked like it was exactly what Dempsey was attempting to do to me. Many goals take a little luck to reach their final destination. Fabianos first goal was luck to have nutmegged Spector. His second was lucky to have hit the post and rebounded right to him 2 feet out. Lucio's was lucky to hit the post and still go in ... and yes Dempsey's was lucky to have gone in from that kind of attempt.
posted by Ricardo at 11:22 AM on June 29
I agree. I didn't necessarily expect to win at the whistle, but once halftime arrived with the 2-0 scoreline, I was fully prepared to celebrate.
As for the moral victory question, I think I fall somewhere in between. I am glad we played a good game of soccer and made the Brazilians work for the trophy, but was definitely a little heart broken over the whole affair.
It did give me a little hope for next year.
Not quite sure why we're sending an understrength team to the Gold Cup though. This seems like pretty poor timing on Bradleys part. I want to see the team that beat Spain and nearly won the trophy to compete a little ahead of next year.
Couldn't figure out why Torres didn't get a look either. I've liked his play every time I've seen him.
posted by Ricardo at 11:07 AM on June 29
As a Liverpool fan, glad to see him go. Don't understand how Man U will be able to replace him though. Ribery isn't quite as good. Not a bad option mind you, but you cannot replace the reigning footballer of the year with just any body.
Not to mention their other winger, Giggs hasn't got tons of play left in him.
posted by Ricardo at 01:42 AM on June 12
From the trivia page on the movie Slap Shot ...
The Championship Trophy presented at the end of the movie was, in reality, the Lockhart Cup, which was representative of the North American Hockey League championship. To this day, it sits in the basement recreation room of Danny Belisle, where it has become a flower pot.
Incidentally, Danny Belisle, who played an extra in the movie, is currently a scout for the Red Wings.
posted by Ricardo at 11:59 PM on June 09
Ballack should have been watching the game from the sideline for the red card he got in the first leg. I can't remember who he tackled but he was lucky to have escaped the second yellow.
The Pique handball and the red card stood out to me as the largest refereeing errors.
Stunning response by Chelsea's players. There is no way someone shouldn't have been red carded at the end of that match. Either Ballack for his reaction to the penalty no call or Drogba even after the match was over.
posted by Ricardo at 04:13 AM on May 07
Being the top ranked team in the AFC as opposed to being the top ranked team in the OFC makes a huge difference as I see it ... as the top ranked Oceania team, you would have absolutely no room to slip up in qualifying lest New Zealand qualify first. Once you do qualify first, you have a dice roll match with the 5th place Asian team.
While in Asia, all you need to do is finish in the top 4 (or 5th and play in the same dice roll match)
posted by Ricardo at 01:20 AM on April 03
I never cared for Mourinho, but I would think Roman has to be kicking himself over it ... Even Avram Grant had a pretty good run with them. It seems to me, Roman must be the kind of man who wants all or nothing ... if they're not first, you're gone. As for Pompey, tough gig that one.
posted by Ricardo at 02:54 PM on February 09
Where will he play in Arsenes lineup. Winger? Midfield? or Forward? From what I've read, he can play all those. I'm guessing he'll take the playmaker spot until Cesc is healed, but where after that?
posted by Ricardo at 06:11 PM on February 03
Not to defend this guy, but he did own up to his mistakes in the comments section. I can see where he got the idea that noone cares though. I am an avid soccer fan/player. When I look to the media for information, it's very difficult to find over here. If I didn't know the more obscure places to look, I would think no one in the states cared about soccer. While I know we're a minority, I do know there are those of us who care.
This guy searched quickly, and in all likelyhood, in the wrong places for information. This was a blog and not an article. Poorly done mind you, but these are the kinds of things we should just ignore and keep walking past.
posted by Ricardo at 01:13 PM on October 27
Montana -> Young -> Garcia ... two hall of famers and one pretty adept ... I know, I know, this is baseball. But a very nice run indeed.
posted by Ricardo at 02:03 PM on June 04
Yeah John Terry is a real stand up guy link 1 link 2 link 3 I know these were all several years ago and he's remained fairly clean since, but I wouldn't say he represents everything good about the game. Someone like Dirk Kuyt is way better suited for a title like that. Gentlemanly, charitable and hard working. Terry is certainly one of the best at what he does but I think falls just a bit shy in the humanitarian race.
posted by Ricardo at 09:12 AM on May 22
If you are one of the few to catch any episodes of "Welcome to the Captain", then you will recognize Jesus the Bellman in his MLB days HERE
posted by Ricardo at 09:17 AM on March 25
I'm dumbfounded this guy didn't make the list 
posted by Ricardo at 02:42 PM on March 04
Suckers! My username at football filter is '001'.
posted by Ricardo at 04:17 PM on February 27
Well, to most bloggers -- fuck you right in the ear HAHAHA ... ouch! I don't personally like Kornheiser, but I'd agree that he, and any other "sports" personality able to land a job on the biggest sports channel in the states, knows more about sports than I do. I go to work and bang on a keyboard all day, but those guys go and deal with sports and sports issues all day. How can they not have the knowledge? Stephen A is the same. Although maybe a one-trick pony (basketball), he obviously knows many of the ins and outs. These two are as annoying as a little sister, but that doesn't lessen their knowledge. Listen to Dan Reeves on the radio sometime. He gives so much insight when he's talking, but listening to him is akin to having sulphuric acid poured over my junk and wiped off with steel wool. In reality, most of us couldn't do a better job ... maybe some of us could be more likeable, but that's it.
posted by Ricardo at 12:39 PM on February 26
I have never seen or even heard of more "hate" You should watch some of the Celtic-Rangers matches then.
posted by Ricardo at 11:39 AM on February 25
I whole-heartedly have a very strict definition of what a sport is or isn't. But easy enough to point out that chess fits definition number 3 above. I don't believe chess is but MY definition of a sport comes from my heart and not a dictionary. I think many activities can be defined as a sport using Webster's. As for the soccer and football aspect of this list, I don't think there have been many one-on-one rivalries in either sport. That is what this list is about. Man on Man action (the good kind).
posted by Ricardo at 09:05 AM on February 25
But if you pay a player $8 million and he performs like a $1 million player, then you wouldn't have cared if the other team had gotten him. So really, you pay a player $8 million because you want him to play like an $8 million player.
posted by Ricardo at 08:04 AM on February 25
What happens when Man U and Arsenal are tied (or close) after 38 games and Man U gets Derby while Arsenal draws Man City? This just doesn't seem very logical or well thought out. I could see playing one of the 38 games as an away game for someone but then who do you pick to lose a home game? I would love to see some of these teams come to the states more often, but I don't think it should be at the expense of the Premier League race.
posted by Ricardo at 07:52 AM on February 13
I think you mean Night Patrol. Hehe. I think you're right. Although I can't remember one single other thing from the movie. How do you remember one scene from a movie and it's the naked guys bumping dicks. How humiliating. The link to imdb shows Pat Morita as "Rape Victim". Now that's funny.
posted by Ricardo at 09:59 AM on February 11
why not throw a bunch of tuna on the lawn and see if those will do the job.
posted by Ricardo at 02:33 PM on February 08
But baby tuna are sooo cute ... I wonder what seal meat tastes like ...
posted by Ricardo at 01:25 PM on February 08
Chickens are jerks MMMMMMM. Jerk Chicken. It's just two guys, standing in a ring, smiling at each other, with their cocks in their hands. I seem to remember this happening in some movie back in the eighties. Night Shift keeps coming to mind but I can't be sure.
posted by Ricardo at 09:57 AM on February 08
The Giants were the No. 5 seed in the NFC and the lowest-ranked wild card team to ever reach a Super Bowl This was after a 10-6 season in which they lost to Dallas twice, Green Bay, Minnesota, Washington and New England. Those "6" teams (counting Dallas twice) had a combined record of 72-24, the bulk of which came from the 8-8 Vikings and the 9-7 Redskins. Just because they were a wildcard team, doesn't mean they were a bad team. They lost to mostly top quality opponents and other than the Ravens, gave the Patriots the biggest worry in the regular season. Plus, they were the five seed because two lesser teams (Seahawks and Bucs) won their division. The Bucs did it with a worse record and the Seahawks only tied the Giants record despite being in a MUCH weaker conference (and let me point out again, I root for one of those crappy teams). And despite the beating that Brady took all night, he still managed an 82 passer rating.
posted by Ricardo at 10:37 AM on February 05
Call me crazy, but I still say they are arguably the best single-season team in history. I have to agree with Hal. This team can still be considered at the top of the list. Maybe not THE top, but close to it. At best, they're the 43rd best team in history. You need to win the Super Bowl to even be in the conversation. All 42 superbowl winners deserve to be ranked ahead of them. Winning a Super Bowl 20 years ago doesn't make you better than the team that lost the Super Bowl this year. Easy enough to point out the fallacy in that thinking. Tiger Woods isn't taken off the greatest golfer list after losing a major. On Sunday, one of the great teams got beat by a very good team. This is how sports works. Sometimes the underdog wins. It's why many of us watch. The better team doesn't always win. Only 3 teams have ever won 18 games in one season. How can that not make them at least nearly as good as those two teams (85 Bears and 84 49ers)? I'm a 49er fan by the way and still think those two teams of the 80's are the best ever but I see the argument for these Patriots.
posted by Ricardo at 09:16 AM on February 05
I don't even believe she has anything to apologize for. Except for the sake of appeasement to her employers who don't appreciate negative publicity. IT WAS A ROAST. Making fun of people is the intent. Hollywood likes anal sex Who doesn't?
posted by Ricardo at 02:10 PM on January 29
Fuck Jesus Garcia (mean hispanic I know) Jesus , Fuck Me! (double exclamation) Fuck For Jesus (charity hookers) Just Feed Us (misheard lyrics)
posted by Ricardo at 12:49 PM on January 29
Ah, good old poll number 678. My Cavaliers were number 1 and subsequently lost on a last second field goal to Georgia Tech who went on to share the Championship with someone else (Maybe Washington but it's all a little fuzzy). Go Wahoos.
posted by Ricardo at 02:17 PM on January 23
Hopefully this will help him develop into a stronger forward for the US team. It will be nice if he gets a few luky goals quickly and helps pull Fulham a few notches up the table.
posted by Ricardo at 02:10 PM on January 23
In Terp's example, he is out whether he makes the putt or not. In mine, he is in whether he one putts or two putts. Where it is the same is he would be doing his fellow competitors a favour by deliberately missing the putt
posted by Ricardo at 07:01 AM on January 16
The same thing (essentially) can happen in the old system. If there are 69 players at a certain score or better and the last putt of the day is to tie that same score, making it will send those one stroke over that score home while missing it will include the putting golfer and those tied with him. This means either way, he is in and could take money from one of those players to miss and then putt in. Not that I'm agreeing with the change. I think it's better the way it was, but not perfect obviously.
posted by Ricardo at 02:13 PM on January 15
But since a "golden boy" (good ole boy) lead the Pats And here we thought you were just anti New England. Not anti "good ole boy". Im pretty sure anyone here would be amazed at any QB to take his team 16-0, not just the white ones.
posted by Ricardo at 12:51 PM on January 04
What about the mystery call on the sidelines that went from a 15 yard penalty against the Patriots to a 15 yard call against the Giants? From what I could tell, it looked as if the announcers thought initially the penalty was for a late hit. Replays showed the hit was good and I think the flag was on Burress for saying something in the fracas that occurred at the sideline.
posted by Ricardo at 11:30 AM on December 30
Which makes you a fan of the spectacle, not baseball. By your reasoning, you would be OK with your kids taking performance enhancing drugs just as long as you can get that ELECTRIC chill when you watch them play. And by your reasoning, someone who watches porn would enjoy watching their daughter doing it.
posted by Ricardo at 01:15 PM on December 14
The rest of his game is a bit blah most of the time While not spectacular, except for the aforementioned free kicks, Beckham plays a very skillful and cerebral game of football. His passing and influence are very real factors in many of the teams he plays on. He doesn't do 360's around defenders like Ronaldinho but is still the kind of player any coach would want on his squad. Plus he's a marketing juggernaut which in the long run will make any team better due to the increased revenue.
posted by Ricardo at 07:12 AM on November 09
Speaking of flawed logic. It sounds like you're saying every person/team who has ever cheated needed to cheat. Team A may be better than team B but knows the old "any given sunday" adage and may take "steps" (cheat) in order to lessen the chance they might get beat by a weaker team. I agree the Patriots cheated but I say they don't need to cheat. They are mopping up every opponent they come across with the exception of a narrow victory over the second best team in the NFL.
posted by Ricardo at 03:00 PM on November 07
D'oh! Beaten to the punch. Good one fraze.
posted by Ricardo at 02:39 PM on November 07
For those of us who are old enough to remember, the Dolphins didn't have an easy schedule. It was clearly explained in the article that they did, in fact, have an easy schedule. W-L-T KC 8-6-0 HOU 1-13-0 MIN 7-7-0 NYJ 7-7-0 SD 4-9-1 BUF 4-9-1 BAL 5-9-0 BUF 4-9-1 NE 3-11-0 NYJ 7-7-0 STL 4-9-1 NE 3-11-0 NYG 8-6-0 BAL 5-9-0 For a combined record of 70-122-4. Only 2 of the 14 teams (really only 10 teams) had winning records and those were barely winning records.
posted by Ricardo at 02:36 PM on November 07
not to mention the Pats will have to go 19-0 to match the '72 Dolphins 17-0. And if the record only counts the regular season, then they would have to go 16-0 instead of 14-0 as the Fins did.
posted by Ricardo at 11:15 AM on November 07
In the end, he won't sell tickets and merchandise if he doesn't play well (or all). It was probably his desire to get into the games which cost him some of that injury time. And he missed at least one Euro qualifier during that stretch (maybe two but I can't remember). If you've caught any of the matches he has played in MLS, you can see he is 100% committed to the cause.
posted by Ricardo at 05:39 AM on November 06
If they do mark that ball up unlike they have ever marked anything else in that hall. Then good for Barry Bonds for standing up for something right in baseball this time. This isn't the Hall of Fames doing. rcade said it correctly above. The person who bought the ball at auction (Marc Ecko) is the one putting the asterisk on the ball and then donating it to the Hall. The Hall can either display it or not. They would most likely rather have the ball in it's original condition, but will take it however it's given. I think Ecko is an ass for doing this even though I feel strongly against Bonds achievements. I also think Bonds is an ass for even mentioning he might turn down the greatest honor an athlete can be given.
posted by Ricardo at 07:53 AM on November 02
Plus noone still knows whether Cullen finds it funny or not. He may have suggested it to Kitna for all we know.
posted by Ricardo at 03:03 PM on October 31
Well, yeah, but when you're down two points with two seconds to go, and you've got the ball on your own 39-yard line, anything other than a touchdown is a loss, so who worries about fumbles? I agree. What I meant was these are the reasons it isn't used as standard play.
posted by Ricardo at 09:24 AM on October 30
I think the reason it isn't used over here is because losing the ball is a much bigger deal in American football. It's turned over several times every few minutes in rugby typically. A rugby team doesn't mind giving up the ball if it pins the other team close to their try line. A football team never wants to lose the ball. All of those laterals are highly susceptible to fumbles.
posted by Ricardo at 01:52 PM on October 29
I absolutely agree with most of the comments leaning toward the Patriots aren't doing anything wrong here. They can use these situations as valuable skill building drills. Fourth and goal with little time left ... this gives a perfect chance to practice in a real game situation in case they ever need to go for this yardage in a game where it could make a difference. I think it is very gracious of a team if they do opt to sit on the clock and let up on the other team, but it shouldn't be regarded as poor sportsmanship if they don't.
posted by Ricardo at 08:38 AM on October 24
Thiesmann's injury to be sure was pretty bad, but I think effect-wise it isn't nearly as bad as those guys in kick boxing. Their bare legs were flopping around as they tried to stand on them. Ole Joe's was covered by uniform.
posted by Ricardo at 02:16 PM on October 17
Haven't noticed any in top level rugby union, rugby league, or cricket. I'm not saying those guys are on drugs, but they look like they're on drugs more than any other sport. Those guys are built like Scion xB's. (this isn't referring to cricket obviously)
posted by Ricardo at 01:53 PM on October 05
Would MLB endorse it by displaying the ball in the HOF? The baseball Hall of Fame is not owned, run by or in any way affiliated with MLB.
posted by Ricardo at 01:02 PM on October 05
Of course only 1 team has played in the big game more than once and won every time ... and that would be the 5-0 San Francisco 49ers. Pittsburgh: 5-1 Dallas: 5-3 And the only other undefeated Super Bowl teams: Tampa Bay: 1-0 New York Jets: 1-0 Baltimore: 1-0 And I agree the "best franchise" isn't necessarily the most popular franchise. Best is such a non-tangible idea with way too many variables to actually be determined. There will never be a best franchise.
posted by Ricardo at 07:31 AM on October 04
Open wheel racing is the only sport worth anything anyway!!! You realize this is a sports related web site? And you're in a thread about football? And racing isn't a sport?
posted by Ricardo at 12:37 PM on October 03
I grew up fans of the Dodgers, Celtics & 49ers. My emotions rose and dropped with their respective luck. I cried in '88 when Kirk Gibson hit his historic home-run. The Catch. "Bird steals the ball!". They all mean something to me. Those allegiances have softened over the years, although they still exist, I will typically pick teams to cheer for on the fly. Free agency has created that atmosphere. No longer do I die a little inside when one of those teams tanks. I'm not sure exactly at what point all this started happening, but I feel like I've lost something in the transition. I'm much like charlatan now. I pick players to root for and usually wind up rooting for whatever team they happen to be on. As a soccer fan, I do have those same emotions attached to the US National Team and Liverpool. I hurt when the Brasilian women beat us last week. I hurt in last years Champion's League final. Another aspect of the fair weather fan these days is fantasy football. I root for the players on my team and against the players on my opponents team. I don't necessarily think it's to blame for my soullessness as I've never played fantasy baseball or basketball. As much as I enjoy it, I think Tiki Barber is probably right when he said it is ruining football (from the fan's perspective). But it's here to stay so football has to find a way around that. As for the hurt, I miss it.
posted by Ricardo at 07:21 AM on October 03
High School Football Star Saves 22 lives from Armed Student
I wouldn't paint a 14 year old girl as the typical criminal who got a semi-automatic gun from an illegal source. Theres a good chance she, like many other criminals, got it from someone who bought the gun legally under said draconian laws.