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No, they're still in Oceania, they just play Asian teams because playing Oceania qualifying was like playing Aruba six times in a qualifying cycle. I think you're confusing Australia and New Zealand, Australia is definitely in AFC and went through their qualifying. yeah, they moved because they wanted better competition (the oceania qualifying is a bunch of pacific island nations who are terrible, and new zealand) and to participate in the AFC champions league. i've seen a few socceroos matches, they are legitimately not a good team. no idea how they beat denmark. they should lose by about 8 goals to argentina.

This is good right? Just don’t get smoked today and hope englands second team is still good enough to grab 3 points against wales and we just need to beat Iran. If we win today, we go through of we don't lose to Iran. If we draw, we can go through If England win or draw v Wales and we draw or win v Iran. If we lose, we can still go through by beating Iran as long we still beat them and Wales on GD, which would obviously be very likely as long as we don't get curb stomped by England. wales is on one point so they have to beat England next round to advance. Assuming that doesn’t happen, then the result against England doesn’t matter for the US. They could lose by 100 goals but as long as they beat Iran, they are through. Iran will probably play for a draw if the US don’t beat England, but to that I would say that if you can’t beat wales or Iran then you don’t really deserve to advance.

well deserved win for Iran, they actually outplayed Wales pretty badly the whole match.

my initial reaction was "well that's okay, take the winter off and just come back at full strength next season" but this actually sounds serious enough that it could have complications in future year(s) if it doesn't heal correctly.

that was actually a really good pitch he hit out. 99mph sinking fastball on the outside corner. i guess maybe he wanted it slightly lower, but that's a damn hard pitch to hit out.

this is the most i've ever liked yankee fans.

double and a dong for caissie tonight.

from a recent sahadev sharma article on the athletic:

effross needs tommy john surgery, making that wesneski trade look even better. Bad luck for effross though, hope he comes back and pitches well in 2024.

We didn’t quite get the storybook ending (Molina striking out to end the season and his career), but the most important thing is that the Cards lost.

if anyone is looking to make some easy money, just bet the opposite of whatever clay travis says is his college football lock of the week. so far the "lock of the week" is 0-5.

how's this not draw a card?

how come he’s not rated higher? I assume his hit tool is pretty limited? 34 home runs (mostly at AA) in his age 21/22 season is pretty impressive. There’s a lot of swing and miss but he does take a reasonable number of walks, so he doesn’t seem to be a wild hacker.

Canario has hit two dongs, his first AAA home runs.