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Agreed on both of these points. Like you said, the fact that there was a vote and it was as close as it was says a lot. If it came out there was a vote and it was almost unanimous to keep Gio or if there was no vote at all, then I'd lean towards Berhalter overreacting or holding some grudge against Gio. I totally understand why Gio would be frustrated and I know he's only just turned 20. But he's also a professional who has been playing at one of the biggest clubs in the world for two years now. He's got to react better than this. Be frustrated. Be angry. But when you step on the practice field, you've got to bring it even if you don't agree with the coach's decision. Hopefully he learns from this and it doesn't happen again in the future. And hopefully we find a coach next cycle who figures out how to get his best players on the field.
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I would think that would be something a manager would go over with each of his players before the tournament. Most players probably have an idea of what their role is going to be but the manager is going to want to clear that up so everyone is on the same page. Otherwise it seems a little strange that Berhalter would only go up to Gio and tell him he wasn’t going to play much.
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Probably the ACL. Almost always is when the knee buckles on a non contact injury.
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If the Raiders didn’t blow any 17 point leads this year they’d be 8-5. If you make it 13 point leads they’d be 9-4. And one of those four was to the Chiefs, the other three were to teams who are a combined 13-25 (Rams, Cards, Jags). From 1960 through 2021 the Raiders blew a total of 5 leads of 17+ points.
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Tua is 4-18 passing right now.
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If you’re worried about not getting a great players best years only, then just be the A’s and sell every 18 months That’s not what I’m worried about.
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I knew they were top-4 but I didn’t realize they were the top of the conference. And anyone who hates Zion (or any other big dunker) throwing down a cool dunk at the end of a game like that is an idiot. He’s at home in front of a pumped up crowd and he throws a 360. Let him dunk.
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I didn’t say Beltre was bad in Seattle. Just that his performance in Seattle didn’t come close to his contract year. If last year was a fluke and Swanson reverts back to what he was up until 2022, then paying him 8/$200M or whatever it would be turns out to be a bad idea. And pre-2022 Swanson isn’t close to an elite talent.
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I’m still not high on Berhalter but that at least is a legitimate reason to not play Gio as much as we wanted him to play.
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Over Nico sure. Over Madrigal/Morel is a bigger improvement. Trust me... I agree that they need quality over quantity but seem to be unwilling to acquire true elite talent again. I submit a fellow former #1 overall pick coming off a ~6+ WAR season with 25 HRs in a diminished offensive environment (60+ over the past 3) at SS is a true elite talent…The narrative around his FA is not so different from the questions then glove first players like Adrian Beltre (coming off his monster breakout season) and DJ LeMahiu faced the first time they entered FA If Swanson continues to do what he did last year, then sure, he's a true elite talent. But we're basing that off one year when his previous 6 were nothing close to this. There's been too many big contract year busts for me to put too much stock in his one good year. Beltre in any of his five years in Seattle didn't get within 4 or 5 WAR (depending on which site you use) of what he put up in his contract year in LA so maybe not the best comparison to use there. LeMahieu had one good year in Colorado and I'm not sure anyone saw him doing what he did in 2019 or 2020 for the Yankees.
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Completely unnecessary too because Mount was never getting to that ball.
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Wow. Morocco knocks off Portugal.
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They got their defensive tactics from the US against Portugal in 2014. hahaha - I remember that! I was like, if you're going to cover one player on the other team . . . That play made me so mad. Not just because we blew the game but we blew qualifying after 2 games and then had to hope that either Por-Gha ended in a draw or that Germany didn’t beat the crap out of us. And for a while there, we were a Ghana goal away from being out. Why we were pressing so high up rather than just keeping 5 or 6 guys behind the ball I still don’t know. Oh wait Klinsmann is a idiot. That’s why.
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They got their defensive tactics from the US against Portugal in 2014.
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Wow
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That Argentina player should be off. No idea why he decided to launch the ball at the Dutch bench like that.
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see Italy 1982 I was thinking Portugal in Euro 2016. Drew all 3 group games, won 2 knockout games in extra time and a third in penalties. So they only won 1 of 7 games in 90 minutes.
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I don't know, but 11 years for a 30 year old SS seems...ill advised to me. I heard it suggested somewhere that the extra couple years are to get the AAV down. If a player wants $250M, he knows he's unlikely to get another deal at 38 or 40 regardless. So stretch it over 11 years instead of 8.
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Is there a reason Swanson is even being mentioned in the same breath as the other three SS other than they're all SS? Because he's been significantly worse than the other three over the course of his career. If he gets anywhere close to the money/years these other guys are getting, I don't want the Cubs anywhere near him.
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Dislike very much.
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9 years $360M.
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I’m now seeing a report that he just struck out in the batting cage just now.
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Spain with some pretty awful penalties.
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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/dec/05/fox-sports-us-world-cup-coverage-tv-soccer This was an entertaining read. I can't speak for the accuracy of it as I haven't watched any coverage that wasn't the actual game though.