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Howard Beck ✔ @HowardBeck Follow Eastern Conference race is now wide open. Will say it again: Carmelo makes the Bulls instant favorites if he signs there. i don't know who this dude is but since he's a rando there's a decent chance he's not a bulls fan This entire discussion was, I surely thought, based on the discussion of Love landing on the Cavs. Beck, whoever that is, is surely not discussing this situation based on the same presumption based on this random message board. I would agree that if Anthony lands on the Bulls, and the Cavs team is stays as-is, the Bulls may be favored. But if Love is traded to the Cavs? No. Just no. Surely a bulls team with Carmelo Anthony and a healthy Rose can be reasonably argued as the favorite in the East over a Lebron/Love lead cavs. I understand "no, but 'no just no' is too dismissive of a team that won 45 games last year and added Melo and Rose. I think that's the first problem with this line of reasoning. Why would anyone expect "a healthy Rose" to exist?
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Howard Beck ✔ @HowardBeck Follow Eastern Conference race is now wide open. Will say it again: Carmelo makes the Bulls instant favorites if he signs there. i don't know who this dude is but since he's a rando there's a decent chance he's not a bulls fan This entire discussion was, I surely thought, based on the discussion of Love landing on the Cavs. Beck, whoever that is, is surely not discussing this situation based on the same presumption based on this random message board. I would agree that if Anthony lands on the Bulls, and the Cavs team is stays as-is, the Bulls may be favored. But if Love is traded to the Cavs? No. Just no.
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This whole thread has been about the "East is over". And I responded to a post that mentioned 3 eastern teams also. If the bulls got melo would you even favor the Cavs? I would not. That's a near 50 win team adding melo rose and Mirotic. Yes. Pretty much everyone will, except Bulls fans.
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Ha ha, you think Portland and Golden State are "better or as good" as a team with LeBron James-Kevin Love-Kyrie Irving?
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And Thiago Silva suspended for yellow cards. He's a huge loss too.
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Potentially, we have a road of Belgium, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany/Brazil. That's as bad as it gets. As a second-place group qualifier, the US really should be pretty thrilled with Belgium first game. Belgium has more talent than the US but they're one of the weaker group winners and not a perennial power.
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Thanks. That seemed like an historically low number for UEFA, so I looked. By quick count, UEFA only had six teams last World Cup as well, but before that: 10, 9, 10, 10, 10, and 10. So unsure if this is a fluke because of the locations of the last two (or whatever) or if the rest of the world has caught up quite a bit.
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I think the US has a very good chance against Belgium (assuming that's who it will be), they are less than the sum of their parts.
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He's an amazing player, but eclipsed by his villainy.
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The first time, sure. But after multiple versions of the same thing? Yes. I don't think even three biting incidents are the worst of the worst possible offenses. What? Sure, I guess a player could deliberately choke an opponent to death. But the fact that 2 years is the maximum does not mean that you can only use that maximum on the one "truly worst possible offense" and then have to go lower from there. By my lights, it does. The worst possible punishments should be reserved for the worst possible offenses. Proportionality matters. And a player could always go Ron Artes--or, ya know, Eric Cantona--which would deserve a much more stringent penalty.
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The first time, sure. But after multiple versions of the same thing? Yes. I don't think even three biting incidents are the worst of the worst possible offenses.
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I think that's a far ban. I don't know anything about anything about soccer, but wasn't there talk of like a 2 year ban? Two is the maximum allowable; that would have been pretty extreme. Biting is vile (and just so creepy) but we can all think of things that would deserve much harsher punishments.
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Ugh let's pretend that game didn't happen.
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As bad as that picture is in aggregate, I'm at a complete loss as to why Gonzalez was where he was.
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No idea but it's pretty stupid. Yes, very stupid. Using goal-differential makes sense, but having goals scored over head-to-head is dumb. Personally, I don't even like that. Should be H2H, then GD, then GS. I don't have time right now to look at a bunch of leagues, but in the top leagues, the EPL doesn't use H2H at all (it's GD, GS then a playoff), the Bundesliga is the same as the World Cup, Serie A goes H2H, GD and La Liga goes H2H, H2H GD, H2H GS and then overall GD. So it seems like it's split there. Agree. I actually meant to say "makes some sense." It should be head-to-head first.
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Yeah, lot of questions. Like you said in a previous post (I think it was you, sorry, in a daze), the US lost on a counter when leading with less than a minute remaining in stoppage. The defensive line seemed too high, the midfielders certainly weren't all deep enough, the players were too casual with the ball when booting it to the corner would have been fine (this was true against Ghana too), Ronaldo was lost (and even worse, lost on DMB's side, who was absolutely gassed), and no professional foul either? I think DMB was worried about stepping up and getting beat by Ronaldo, and not being able to foul him, and leaving him a clear path into the 18. But just no excuse for getting beaten on a ball behind you. If we crash out Thursday, that sequence is going to burn into the memories of those guys for a while, since it was completely preventable and a total breakdown of common soccer sense. Right. I didn't mean to blame DMB. He was on an island with the last person you want to be on an island with -- and he, correctly, made the choice not to allow Ronaldo by him (otherwise, Ronaldo would have been in on goal). But, at that point, I would have wanted to see almost anyone other than DMB alone against Ronalda -- at least by my lights, DMB was the most visibly tired player on the field.
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No idea but it's pretty stupid. Yes, very stupid. Using goal-differential makes sense, but having goals scored over head-to-head is dumb.
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Yeah, lot of questions. Like you said in a previous post (I think it was you, sorry, in a daze), the US lost on a counter when leading with less than a minute remaining in stoppage. The defensive line seemed too high, the midfielders certainly weren't all deep enough, the players were too casual with the ball when booting it to the corner would have been fine (this was true against Ghana too), Ronaldo was lost (and even worse, lost on DMB's side, who was absolutely gassed), and no professional foul either?
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Nah, it doesn't bother me. It's fun if they actually listen and try to understand. I just hate when they come and complain about soccer and then tell me what they think soccer/FIFA should change to make the sport better (which they determined from watching like thirty minutes of one game).
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Especially considering Iran-Nigeria isn't exactly a great distraction.
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Yes. And USSoccer is wrong (I said it). This is the best result possible. Germany is and was always going to advance out of this group. The competition for the US is Portugal and Ghana. And one of those teams now is seriously hampered. A tie would have helped Portugal and I have no idea why anyone would want that. I was definitely underestimating Germany. Going in, I had some questions. No longer; the only reason this game isnt 9-0 is because Germany stopped trying and started pretending they were Spain around the 18. I think there are questions as they advance further--their midfield is deep and outstanding but they don't have a striker and their backline is somewhat questionable (especially if Hummels is out). But those questions are for later.
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Yes. And USSoccer is wrong (I said it). This is the best result possible. Germany is and was always going to advance out of this group. The competition for the US is Portugal and Ghana. And one of those teams now is seriously hampered. A tie would have helped Portugal and I have no idea why anyone would want that.
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Are you talking about web or mobile? My memory from 2010 was pulling up the normal ESPN radio app on my work computer to listen to the games, so if it's web/desktop it may just be worse experience from ESPN radio in general. Mobile. Specifically, this: http://appshopper.com/sports/espn-2010-world-cup
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I guess my post was lost in the closing of the actual World Cup thread: In 2010, ESPN had a dedicated World Cup app with live radio for all games, gamecasts, etc. I thought it was very good. This year, that doesn't seem to exist, and I'm listening on the ESPN Radio app--which is not as good as the dedicated app. Any suggestions or other options? (And why no dedicated app this time?)
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This: ?