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  1. It's simple to me. Orlando has a month to get the defense ready for OU. If it's another disaster like this week was, you move on. Herman won't do that because he's too arrogant to admit his guy isn't doing his job right, but it's three straight years our defense has been woefully unprepared to play a power 5 non-conference opponent. LSU is  a lot more talented than Maryland, but the point remains. Our defense looked lost. Joe Burrow is getting a lot of praise, but the defense didn't challenge him at all. If they're going to play marquee non-conference opponents every year the defense has to be prepared to play them. In Herman's tenure they've yet to be ready for a power 5 opponent in September.

  2. Big series starts tonight and three of the four pitching matchups are tasty:

    Fried vs Strasburg (tonight)

    Keuchel vs Corbin (tomorrow)

    Soroka vs Scherzer (Sunday)

    A split is a good result. Win 3 of 4 or sweep and the division is all but over. Fried gets two starts vs the Nats in the next two weeks. I would like to see him pitch well and put pressure on Snit to have him start over Teheran in the playoffs (assuming Soroka and Keuchel are 1 and 2). Snit is ultra conservative so I'd expect Teheran to get a playoff start and Fried be the insurance policy should any starter get shelled, but I don't love the idea of Teheran starting in October.

     

  3. What a fascinating match. The humidity got to Monfils and he looked like he'd be done in four sets, but they closed the roof for rain and that helped him. Berrettini had major lemon booty serving for the match in the fifth and gagged it away but rallied in the tiebreak.

    Nadal is the only player left in the men's draw who can keep a player born in the 1990s from winning a grand slam for the first time.

  4. 16 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    Att, sweet pics. Sounds like you had a great time.

    Agreed about sports should be fun. I have no problem with batters watching home runs- as long as they don't get offended when the pitcher throws at them later. What kyrgios does is borderline crazy. Yelling abuse at your own box, throwing temper tantrums at the ref, yelling at the crowd... There's nothing fun about that. Except for me watching at home lol

    He's undoubtedly a lunatic.

    I would argue that while the yelling at fans and umpires is unseemly, I think ultimately it's mostly harmless. Sure the fan or the umpire may feel shitty in the short term, but nobody is going to be siding with the rantings of a crazy person as opposed to, say, Serena when she berates a chair umpire during the entirety of the US Open Final.

    The one time Kyrgios undoubtedly crossed the line was with the "Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend" thing with Wawrinka. He took a private matter between consenting adults and made it very public during a match. It wasn't fair to de-facto slut shame Donna Vekic like that and it wasn't fair to do that to Kokkinakis, someone who was supposedly his friend.

    Otherwise though, I just think he's so absurd it's hard to be offended. I mean, the man called a chair umpire a "potato with arms and legs" and I'm sorry, but that's HILARIOUS.

  5. 1 hour ago, Ted Lange said:

    No Bradley, But Zardes

    Where are Weah and Jozy?  Injured?

     

    Berhalter said he didn't call up Bradley, Jozy and Omar Gonzalez because Toronto FC is chasing a playoff spot.

  6. 11 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

    Every kyrgios match should be during prime time. I can't stand him but I love watching him

    I really enjoy tennis, but am not a die hard fan and prescribe to the "sports should be fun" lifestyle so I love Kyrgios because he's such an ass clown.  His talent is undeniable. His path to the semis is Hoang, Rublev/Simon, Berrettini, and then Monfils is the best seed in the bottom portion of that quadrant. Not sure a bracket is ever going to set up better for him to make a grand slam semifinal. He'll fuck it up some how.

  7. I'm extremely happy for Miles Robinson. He spent two years in Atlanta working and getting little playing time or spending time in the USL before de Boer put a lot of faith in him and he's delivered this year. Atlanta United took a while to round into form this year, but Robinson has been the most consistent player on the team this year. He's been arguably the best CB in MLS and has earned a look with the National Team.

    I can't help but wonder if they brought some of the U23 players to get them some time together before Olympic qualifying in the spring. U23 players on the roster: Cannon, Dest, Robinson, McKennie, Pomykal, Yueill, CP and Sargent. CP won't play in Olympic qualifying. Schalke has been hesitant to release McKennie to youth tournaments. 

  8. Finally after ten years living in New England I took the trek down to Flushing. I had a blast today. Had a GA pass which gets you into everywhere but Ashe (upper deck only at Armstrong and Grandstand).

    Mostly dabbled in a bunch of matches. Started at Tsitsipas-Rublev then went to watch the end of Berrettini's match. Caught the fifth set of the Bautista Agut upset. Tried to watch Andreescu but the court was packed so we parked it at the court next to it to watch a random women's match for a couple of games.

    We caught the end of Isner before going back to Armstrong to watch the last set of Halep's match. My buddy really wanted to watch Coco so we watched that whole match. After that it was the end of Shapovalov-FAA and a couple of random side court matches before heading back to Armstrong for Sabalenka-Azarenka before finally getting to see Kyrgios. We only made it for a set of Kyrgios because we had to catch the train back home. Armstrong went four hour men's match and then three three-set women's matches so Kyrgios went on long.

    TL;DR went to the Open, had fun

    Here are some pics
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  9. 6 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

    Spurs gonna Spurs.  Still down 1-0 after 76 minutes.

    Creeping towards a 10 out of 10 on the "that's so Spursy" scale, but there's still time...

  10. I LOVE soccer and I've never been able to stick with a Premier League team for some reason. The first team I ever tried to follow was Newcastle because they signed Patrick Kluivert who was my favorite player in the old FIFA video games but the EPL was hard to access in those days. I then flirted with Liverpool for a while because the 2005 Champions League Final was the first one I ever saw. I rooted for Everton for a little bit (yes I know that's counter intuitive having rooted briefly for Liverpool) but I got to know Roberto Martinez a little bit and despite his flaws as a coach he is one of the nicest human beings I've ever met.

    Now I'm just rooting for players. I have no affinity for Chelsea, but the USMNT is how I got into soccer so I want to see Pulisic do well. I've tried to get interested in Newcastle again because Miguel Almiron was so instrumental in Atlanta United winning MLS Cup but they're miserable to watch. Of the big six I tend to lean towards Liverpool to actually root for because Dortmund was the first European team I ever rooted for and stuck with and Klopp was the coach there when I first started following them, but I have no emotional investment in them.

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