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When are we getting Jermaine Jones?

While this will never happen, but what would the reactions be if somehow Larussa was brought on as the manager in 2010.

Yep

T&T was playing, and beat, El Salvador, not Honduras. Costa Rica is playing at Honduras tonight. And yeah, win those two games, which is realistic, and you go into the final two games (at Honduras, vs. CR) needing maybe a draw, if anything, to get into the top three, especially if Costa Rica wins tonight. If Honduras wins, then it's pretty cluttered with CR (12), US (10), Hon (10) and Mex (9). Wow I screwed that up. Honduras is leading 1-0.

Time to focus on September 5th and 9th. The match in Utah might be the most important match we have remaining. Crucial 3 points at home and carry momentum to get 3 points in T&T. T&T is leading Honduras 1-0 at the half which is huge for us. Hopefully Costa Rica wins tonight also. Might as well look towards seperating ourselves from the bottom 3 from here on out.

I'm ok with losing in Mexico, we expect it in the very begining when the draws are made. But today, that really sucked. The officials sucked, I didn't like the way the Subs were handled, Donovan and Dempsey were invisible, but Davies played his ass off. The improvement in this team from 6 months ago still shows, but today was just frustrating. I wanted a point, not so much to have a point, but only so Mexico could get just 1.

Not real thrilled with Boca over Spector but I can live with it. Hopefully Ching is playing with a chip on his shoulder. Jozy will be coming in a some point, maybe he can exploit a tired Mexican team in the 2nd half.

Conor Casey is also not dressing, not that that was an actual worry of mine.

Weren't the Brewers trying to dangle Hardy in some of their trade talks?

Lawrence Phillips, he doesn't deserve his own thread. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4392900

I never saw this anywhere but from Directv's website.

Mexico's reported lineup: ochoa juarez-osorio-magallon-salcido Gio- Torrado-Castro- Guardado Blanco Vela

I never even though Davies and Ching was an option. Though Ives reason for Ching is because he has played more in the past month than Jozy. In this particular case that means nothing, I hope he is wrong. I hope Bradley remembers Jozy's goal vs Mexico in Houston.

Less than 5 hours away.

I'm not going to lie...I dropped that once in a high school game. It was, and remains a classic. So basically, Mexico has two advantages tomorrow-the speed of their forwards and wings, and Azteca. As long as our midfield doesn't get overrun/red carded, we can deny quality service to Vela/Gio/Sideshow Bob and negate that advantage. Azteca could turn against Mexico if we score early, and Mexico will start to press if it stays scoreless. If they run their offense through Cuau, they'll suffer for it since he's like a turtle screwing. Torrado sucks hard and is a lunatic. Their backline sucks-if we start Jozy and Charlie (as we [expletive] should), those two with Deuce and Mandon will call them some real issues, especially on the counter, since not only are the short and bad, but also slow. This will be the best team we'll ever have taken down there, and probably the worst Mexican team we'll have faced. It can't go overstated that as long as Rico and Mikey don't suck or get tossed, and if our back 4 plays to their ability, a draw should be doable at least. A win could happen, but only if: -the CM's don't suck -Howard has an very good day -The Panamanian ref (the original guy was reassigned) calls as fair a game as possible -Specs and Boca contain Sideshow Bob and Gio/Vela -We finish the chances we'll get. -Bradley resists the temptation to start Ching. He should take over the Confed's Conor Casey role. I'll call a 2-2 draw. I'm worried about a red card, I shouldn't be but there has been so much crap called lately that it has me more worried. I don't even want to see 10v10, that will just open up the field a little bit more which would be bad tomorrow. If we don't see Jozy and Davies at the start I will be very pissed. Actually if Davies if left of for an extra midfielder or whatever I am ok. If Ching starts tomorrow I will be pissed off. This team has shown they play much better with Davies on the field.

Charlie Davies twitter

He should be offered arbitration so he will cost us draft picks. Still though I would sign him.

I am suprised that pretty much every major carrier who didn't currently huve mun is picking it up for the day to show the game.

Isn't that kinda like the kiss of death though? :-)) Not sure considering there is also this.

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It seems like this is the case with most away matches, but if they can with stand the 1st 20 minutes of the match then I think that will really give them a boost. I think they will be able to counter early as Mexico will try to come out firing, if they can strike 1st the crowd will be very interesting to see how they react.

I wish we had our own version of Azteca, I mean we take our big opponents up north when its cold and get a pro-American crowd. But we need a place where we would pack 90,000 in a hostile environment and no matter who we played it would be 95% American.

I'm very pumped. I plan on just ignoring the Cubs till Thursday, don't want them ruin my mood.

Well, FWIW the police charged them with felony robbery, so someone beyond the cabbie thinks they did something criminal. I doubt the police or the DA would be party to the settlement money in the forthcoming civil suit. I think its strange that the cab drivers attorney thinks things have been overblown. Also the last line almost wants to suggest that Kane was locked inside the cab, did that lead to the incident?

I actually did like what he said about Fielder reacting the way that he did to being hit. Mentioned how its just a part of the game, and to him its a sign of respect being hit, and should just take your base. He is still a douche though.