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They should just go with a player manager or recreate that terrible movie "Eddie" and let a fan coach the team the rest of the year.

I don't know why but I hate him. If I was marking him, I'd just want to crush him like a tiny little bug. I really like him, but he is small and looks even smaller on the pitch. The game at Anfield last season pretty much sold me on him.

Yeah, but we won't gain a draft pick when the Cards or Brewers sign Rich Harden to reasonable 2yr deal. Why is that?

The Arshavin goal yesterday was nice even though he was a step offsides. I really like the pace at which he plays, and how far back he is tracking on defense. He is fitting in very well.

This is such a tired story. No one in MMA's target demographic that would be inclined to watch a combat sport still thinks MMA is human cockfighting. Any guy, 18-35 who does, will never like the sport regardless of what kind of evangelism you do for the sport. They just aren't fight fans. Any fight fan who says that is just being a head in the sand traditionalist loyal to boxing which is understandable. They like it better, fair enough. The fact is, like you said, MMA is a huge sport. The reason I have my doubts that it will ever be like Dana White likes to proclaim, the biggest sport in the world, is the culture surrounding it. It's an almost perfect correlation to NASCAR. Some people don't care about cars and some people don't like fighting. Beyond that aesthetic preference, like IMB mentioned, a ton of people are turned off by the fan culture. I like auto racing but hate NASCAR because of the redneck fans, redneck drivers, redneck sponsors and redneck traditions. I like MMA a lot, but I can easily see how that would be true for MMA. I hate the super aggro dudes with tribal armband tattoos and TAPOUT window stickers on their SUV's. I hate terrible nu metal blasting from sound systems. I hate people who wear Affliction and Ed Hardy or have douchey facial hair and wear tight jeans with odd embroidery on them. I like the sport for what it is. It's really compelling, often inspiring and definitely appeals to the primal nature of testing yourself against someone else with no distractions or advantages beyond what you're gifted with athletically, tactically, mentally and what you gain through hard work. That's the cool part. I get exactly where your coming from or at least I would like to hope I do. MMA isn't for everyone and I get that, because I have some friends that think the same why oh "UFC is human cockfighting" It makes sense. Some like it and some don't I think it's like 40/60 in favor of my group actually not liking it. Some fans I can't stand, but that comes with any sport. I like MMA and boxing. I don't think of it as human cockfighting and don't really get that analogy either. The fights themselves are good, the fighters for the most part are cool with the exception of a few like Tito Ortiz. I think the people who don't like MMA are the same ones who don't like boxing just out of the sheer violence factor. Again the approach and the marketing for MMA has become old though. Its less about the fighting now and more about the image and promotions heading down that WWF road (or whatever its called now). With that comes the percentage of douchy fans who make you want to be nowhere around them during the fight. The problem is though they come out of nowhere come the night of the fight and you cant avoid them at any sports bar.

Looks like Felix Jones will be out 1-2 weeks. As long as Marion Barber is back it should be too much of a hit. Him and Choice will be fine together.

professional baseball is not an individual sport nor is it charitable. Maybe if the teams would congratulate each other after each game like tennis or Olympic style wrestling there would be less anomosity Baseball is really the only sport that doesn't. After every football game players shake hands, at the end of the post season series in basketball the shake hands same in hockey, in soccer they exchange jerseys. Those are all team sports right. Maybe we should just make them run laps until there is less anomosity.

The US will be playing in Honduras.

looked like he was shooting all the way to me.

If indeed it was intended as a shot. The goalkeeper did look silly on it though. 3-1 after a Cameroon penalty, but near the end. 4 yellows in a 20 minute period is not good for the US as Ownby is going to miss the South Korea match. 4-1 now, Ownby scores.

I've noticed a couple of different variations of the fans. Some of which are complete douches. Its pretty much the same guys who 5+ years ago would wear the camo wristbands and bandana's with a matching wifebeater as a fashion statement.

Wow, 3-0 now. Sounds like a real nice shot to make it 3 too.

Jeffrey any good? I don't know much about him. I'm recording the match, looking forward to watching now on my lunch break. This would put them in a good position to advance.

Could be an indication of whats to come? I wonder how differently they treat a WC Qualifier from a Club Champions League match. Probably even more serious. Thats my thought, but also with FIFA more willing to take away a club match over international. Now they are saying the match will be played.

How was your trip last week?

I don't know who the hell Victor Butler is, but I like him.

He should have yelled before the snap that he was going to throw to Smith just to make it even more obvious than it was. Still would've completed it if Smith hadn't been a [expletive] idiot and cut off his route for no apparent reason. Yeah saw that on the replay, not sure about completed it but no int/td.

He should have yelled before the snap that he was going to throw to Smith just to make it even more obvious than it was.

He's an Aggie, he's mostly slow in the head.

7-0 :) there was a ton of uncalled holding on that drive, it was disgusting The bright side about losing this game is it puts us one step closer to not having Wade Phillips as the coach anymore.

Good for him. No reason to waste two years playing for the Ft. Worth Cats.

So you're saying there's a chance .... If we win the WC we will win the WS this year.

Could be an indication of whats to come? I wonder how differently they treat a WC Qualifier from a Club Champions League match. Probably even more serious. Thats my thought, but also with FIFA more willing to take away a club match over international.

Could be an indication of whats to come? I wonder how differently they treat a WC Qualifier from a Club Champions League match.

wow, i didnt hear that. that sucks for them, they were looking at a bowl game. Yeah, that's really tough for him and them. Griffin's a nice player. Wow that really sucks. He is a great athlete and was going to cause a lot of problems in the Big 12 South.