Outshined_One

Yeah, I just watched part of the replay of today's US game and it's the first soccer game I've ever really watched. I've gotta ask: how much time a game does each player spend writhing on the ground in "pain" trying to draw a foul, only to pop back up like nothing happened when none is called? (Or even if it is called.) I think I've seen less hammy performances in pro wrestling matches. The Columbians have it down to an artform. In this tournament, Argentina and Italy have been quite good at it thus far.

I know exactly the game they're talking about. It was Game 2 of the NLDS between Houston and Atlanta. Check this article for more in-depth info. The gist of it was this: Cox nearly got tossed when he was arguing with the umps. The Braves played the remainder of the game under protest. Fun game, imo.

Box Scores Iowa won 2-1 Box Score SS R. Theriot 1/5, R, 2B (8), SB (11) CF F. Pie 1/3, 2 K RF/LF M. Restovich 0/4, K 1B M. Hoffpauir 1/4, RBI, 2 K LF L. Montanez 1/4 3B C. McGehee 2/4, K C G. Soto 0/3, BB, K 2B M. Fontenot 0/2, 2 BB, R, E (5, fielding) RF B. Coats 1/1, RBI, 2B (8) SP M. Prior 6.2 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 10/1 K/BB, 5-4 GO-FO (90 pitches, 63 strikes) RP J. Williams .2 scoreless, 1 H, 1-1 GO-FO RP M. Wuertz 1.2 scoreless, 1 H, 3/0 K/BB, 1-1 GO-FO West Tenn won 1-0 in the 10th Box Score CF C. Walker 2/5, R, SB (21) 2B E. Patterson 0/4, K LF N. Jackson 0/3, 2 BB 1B B. Dopirak 1/3, BB, E (2, pickoff), HBP RF M. Negron 0/3, RBI, K 3B S. Moore 2/4, BB C J. Reyes 1/2, BB PH R. Lewis 0/1 SP JR Mathes 6.1 scoreless, 3 H, 9/1 K/BB, 8-2 GO-FO Daytona won Game 1 of the DH 7-6 Box Score CF S. Fuld 0/3, BB, R, SB (18) C J. Fox 4/4, 2 R, 3 RBI, HR (15), E (5, fielding) 1B M. Craig 1/4, R, RBI, 2B (16) RF R. Harvey 1/3, 2 RBI, E (5, fielding) 2B N. Spears 0/3 SS J. Simokaitis 0/3, K SP M. Billek 5.1 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 3/2 K/BB, HR, 8-5 GO-FO Daytona lost Game 2 of the DH 7-6 Box Score CF S. Fuld 1/3, BB, R, 2B (14), 2 K DH J. Fox 1/4, 3 K 1B M. Craig 1/3, BB, R, 2B (17), 2 K RF R. Harvey 1/4, R, K SS J. Simokaitis 0/2, K SP C. Perez 4.2 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 4/2 K/BB, 7-2 GO-FO, E (3, pickoff) Peoria lost 4-2 Box Score 2B R. Chirinos 1/4, 2B (19), 2 K DH M. Reed 1/4, R LF J. Valdez 1/4 1B R. Norwood 0/3, RBI, K RF Y. Carter 2/4, R, 2B (1) 3B K. Reynolds 0/4, 2 K C J. Muyco 0/3, BB, 2 K SS D. Johnston 1/3, RBI SP J. Yepez 6 H, 4 ER, 5/2 K/BB, HR, 11-5 GO-FO OVERALL: 3-2

Ahhhhhh, the wonders of having 10 Spanish language channels at your disposal. That Italy-Ghana was even worse than I originally thought. Italy was shoving Ghana's guys all over the pitch and they did it in an annoying, yet somewhat clever way. When they go to throw up their arms to show they weren't engaging in handplay, on the way up they give guys a shove in the back, letting the opposing guy's momentum take care of itself. It's kind of sneaky, but if the refs even bother to watch the games, they will get nailed more and more for it as the tournament goes on.

Watching the Australia/Japan replay (hooray for ten Spanish language channels!), I'm impressed that Japan's first goal stood. They absolutely mugged Australia's goalie on that play.

Okay, that was an awesome screwup. :lol:

The Cubs have shown with guys down in Low A, they will give them the full season to enjoy their success and get used to the daily grind over the course of a long season. They've had chances to promote plenty of guys doing really well down there over the past years, but instead kept them there until towards the end of the season in some cases. So, I doubt Atkins or Veal will get promoted. Maybe Downs will get another shot. He's due to grow another few inches any day now, right? ;)

That second goal was an impressive brain fart.

One of the things I absolutely love and hate about soccer: Guys who get stretchered off the field...then roll right off the stretcher and go running back onto the field full speed within a matter of moments.

The announcer on Telemundo really loves Pimpong.

Ghana's goalie has really impressed me. But Italy has a much better sense of anticipation and placement than Ghana. Every time Ghana gets some one in position to make a shot or make a break for it, Italy has a man right on him. They're just a better coached team.

If he can put these numbers up over the next few seasons, then yes I would like to see him signed as a FA. However, I'd rather the Cubs not trade for him, especially considering the fact that this team is still on pace to barely finish over .400.

Congrats to Sean!!!! Maybe they're moving him up to avoid hurricane season? :D

About bleeping time some one scored.

Ghana and Italy keep playing with fire when it comes to defense. This game could already be 3-2 at the rate things are going.

That's why the Sergio Mitre BandWGN crashed (that and Outshined is an awful driver). I deflect blame to those who perverted and bastardized the original Bandwagon. If it had stayed that way, Mitre would have led the Cubs to a World Series victory along with a Cy Young by now. But did it? Noooooooooooooooooo. Some one had to go about adding this WGN stuff and completely ruined it!

I'm currently somewhere behind his right knee.

Box Scores Iowa was massacred, drawn, and quartered 16-5 Box Score SS R. Theriot 0/5, E (5, throw) CF F. Pie, 1/4, BB, R, K LF M. Restovic 1/2, BB, R, 2B (15) PH/LF L. Montanez 1/2 1B M. Hoffpauir 1/4, R, 2 RBI, HR (5) 3B C. McGehee 1/5, R, RBI, 2B (10), K 2B M. Fontenot 2/5, R, RBI, HR (5) RF B. Coats 1/4, BB, R C G. Soto 0/2, 2 BB, 2 K SP L. Walrond 3.3 IP, 13 H, 13 ER, 3/1 K/BB, 2 HR, 6-2 GO-FO West Tenn with an off day. Daytona PPD: Hurricane Peoria won 1-0 Box Score 2B R. Chirinos 2/3, BB, 2B (18) C M. Reed 1/4, RBI, 2 K LF J. Valdez 1/4, K 1B R. Norwood 0/3, K RF Y. Carter 1/2, BB, SB (1) 3B K. Reynolds 1/3, 3B (3), E (4, fielding) SS D. Johnston 0/3, 2 K CF D. Gregg 2/3, R, K SP T. Blackford 6.2 scoreless, 4 H, 2/2 K/BB, 10-7 GO-FO RP M. Avery 1 scoreless, 1 H, 1/1 K/BB, 1-1 GO-FO OVERALL: 1-1

Angola is tenacious, I gotta give them that.

Looks like Angola is finally settling down. That yellow card was a gift, to boot.

Last year, Fox was coming back from injury and wasn't able to pitch several days in a row. That fact was lost on Dusty, who threw him 3 times in 4 days(64 total pitches) and he threw his arm out for good on that last outing. I believe his last outing was something like 30+ pitches. Everyone knew that he was an injury waiting to happen and that he only had so many bullets left in him. Dusty apparently never got the memo.

We signed him out of the Dominican in 1999. Thanks. He was originally a catcher, but then was converted into a starter.

This is becoming sad.

Funny, because John Smoltz and Curt Schilling have been quite injured over their careers. Cripes, the Braves originally moved Smoltz to closer because he couldn't stay healthy as a starter. I'm personally frightened that Wood might become like Schilling, who was injured a lot early in his career, then settled down as he got older and only had to battle major injuries in 2003 and in the 2004 postseason. Johnson has also had his fair share of problems. Clemens is the only guy you listed who hasn't broken down due to injury, save for the 2005 postseason. Thanks to the miracle of modern medical science, these guys have had their careers extended well beyond their injury problems. It's not like these guys haven't felt the effects of overuse themselves, you know?

they also had to finish a suspended game. Ahhhhhhhhhh. I'll try and dig that one up and post it here, then.