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  1. bukie
    ESPN's team of baseball...talkers...voted on All-Star representatives: http://espn.go.com/mlb/allstar14/story/_/id/11167080/espn-national-league-all-stars Cubs mentioned: Rizzo, Castro, Samardzija, Hammel and Arrieta.
  2. bukie
    Always nice to sweep the world series champions.
  3. bukie
    Two walks, a HR, and a Rizzo SB, and there hasn't been so much as an out yet.
  4. bukie
    Unfortunately nobody does what Jozy does, aside from maybe Boyd, who would have been a better call than Wondo in hindsight.
  5. bukie
    If you picked inning number five - a winnar is you! *checks score* Looks like a 1-1 game to me.
  6. bukie
    Who better to steal a goal than Wondo...
  7. bukie
    All that shameful time wasting, not to mention the Campbell garbage yellow on Besler, yet I'm still glad Greece is out.
  8. bukie
    @GrantWahl 15m Costa Rica-Greece: Where shots go out of bounds for throw-ins.
  9. bukie
    Mark Geiger got selected to do the France-Nigeria match, the first time a US referee has done a World Cup knockout round match. Granted, it's France Nigeria, where his job will be to mostly console frustrated Nigerians after all the goals are scored.
  10. bukie
    And the bar again, and Brazil is through.
  11. bukie
    And the Eddy Curry trade ends with Doug McDermott:
  12. bukie
    Sets up almost perfectly for a Brazil-Germany-Netherlands-Argentina semi.
  13. bukie
    So here we are. CONMEBOL quarter Brazil (A1) v Chile (B2) Colombia (C1) v Uruguay (D2) CAF quarter France (E1) v Nigeria (F2) Germany (G1) v Algeria (H2) CONCACAF quarter Netherlands (B1) v Mexico (A2) Costa Rica (D1) v Greece (C2) If Argentina doesn't win... quarter Argentina (F1) v Switzerland (E2) Belgium (H1) v USA (G2)
  14. bukie
    Maybe this should be in the "Gam" thread, but how are the number of spots in the World Cup by geography assigned? I assume it has something to do with world rankings, but does it change ever? It's pretty much just assigned randomly by FIFA according to relative strength of each federation, with the host federation usually picking up a freebie. They've lately been splitting bids between federations and having a playoff for the final couple spots, and this cycle there was a CONCACAF-OFC split (Mexico-New Zealand) and a CONMEBOL-AFC split (Uruguay-Jordan).
  15. bukie
    On the flip side, teams eliminated... UEFA: Spain, Italy, England, Croatia, Portugal, Bosnia-Herzegovina and maybe Russia CAF: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon and maybe Algeria AFC: Australia, Japan, Iran and likely South Korea CONMEBOL: Ecuador CONCACAF: Honduras
  16. bukie
    UEFA advancing teams: Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, and maybe Russia CONMEBOL advancing teams: Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Uruguay CONCACAF advancing teams: USA, Mexico, and Costa Rica CAF advancing teams: Nigeria and maybe Algeria AFC advancing teams: 1% chance of South Korea.
  17. bukie
    Potentially, we have a road of Belgium, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany/Brazil. That's as bad as it gets. Chile potentially has a road of Brazil, Colombia, Germany/France, and Netherlands. Russia/Algeria potentially has a road of Germany, France, Brazil, and Netherlands. The USMNT is about in as good a place as they can be if the worst case scenario is Argentina by the quarters.
  18. bukie
    A cross in a driving rain. Accuracy is a little tricky.
  19. bukie
    Portugoal.
  20. bukie
    Bradley is probably the best player on the team, and he's borderline top 50 internationally. Keep in mind there are a lot of teams and a lot of players on each team.
  21. bukie
    US wins 2-1, goals by Davis and Gonzalez.
  22. bukie
    Yep, should be fun. At least a lot more fun than the other quarter decided: Netherlands-Mexico and Costa Rica-Greece.
  23. bukie
    Man this group is hot garbage.
  24. bukie
    If I had to rate the teams coming into the knockout phase through this point, I'm thinking 1. Netherlands 2. France 3. Brazil 4. Germany 5. Colombia 6. Argentina 7. Chile 8. Belgium 9. G2 (USA) 10. Costa Rica 11. Mexico 12. Uruguay 13. Switzerland (E2) 14. Russia (H2) 15. Nigeria (F2) 16. Ivory Coast (C2)
  25. bukie
    Aaaand it's tied.
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