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Napoleon

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  1. The third set tiebreaker was nearly a fourth set.
  2. So you're saying that having several NIL deals in place is even more vital to the success of a baseball program than to a basketball program? I agree.
  3. Apparently it was NOT Kostyuk who had her opponent quite at 4-0 in the second yesterday. Kostyuk beat Sakkara in three sets after dropping the first set 0-6.
  4. I feel fairly certain that Kostyuk’a last two matches have ended with a second set withdrawal, no? Add to that the fact that Grand Slams offer much more rest for women than the WTA Tour does and she should be awfully fresh.
  5. Napoleon

    USMNT 2023

    Just went to ESPN’s soccer page and saw: Kylian Mbappé still is not planning to extend his contract beyond June 2024 at Paris Saint-Germain despite the latest threat from president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, and he is beginning to assume he might have to leave this summer with Real Madrid as his preferred option, sources told ESPN. Al-Khelaifi's comments have not impressed or intimidated the PSG forward. Sources told ESPN that Mbappé, who is in Cameroon for three days on holiday, is relaxed about the situation. Meanwhile, Madrid remain hopeful of being able to conclude a deal they estimate will be worth more than €200 million ($217.87m), but they want Mbappé or PSG to make the first move before negotiations officially begin. Madrid want to avoid last summer's drama when the Francecaptain decided to sign a new contract with PSG at the last minute despite Madrid being confident that his arrival appeared to be over the line... [click link for full story] https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37972755/kylian-mbappe-extend-psg-deal-real-madrid-await-decision-sources
  6. Napoleon

    USMNT 2023

    RM should absolutely use the €200M to buy players to bolster their roster and whatever happens this year is fine. Then next year they get Mbappe and it’s game on. Mbappe has had such a full season due to playing all 7 games in the World Cup, so he should chill this summer and then whatever PSG wants to do with him, fuck ‘em. Train, stay engaged, play Euro qualifiers, play whatever Qatar/PSG plays you in, and focus on the 2024 Euros. There isn’t anything that PSG can do. Mbappe is bigger than they are and he holds all the cards.
  7. Almost none of it was correct. I know for a fact that a baseball roster is definitely bigger than a basketball roster. (I learned that back in the ‘70s.) The rest was pure speculation.
  8. Napoleon

    USMNT 2023

    “…only downside is he is really slow.” Well, fortunately speed isn’t very important in soccer.
  9. Napoleon

    USMNT 2023

    Yikes! That’s a pay cut!
  10. My guess is that the “basketball benefactors” make NBA funny money and are former players who passed through Austin since The Year 2000. Baseball doesn’t have as many former players making double-digit millions per year. Also, the roster is much bigger.
  11. Tsitsipas seems to have forgotten that he sucks on grass. Up a mini-break in the first set tie-breaker, The Greek has looked very comfortable. And he wins it 7-3 in the breaker. Plus, after finishing off his 5 setter yesterday, they will only be able to get about 3 sets in tonight before the 11pm curfew (5pm Central Daylight Time).
  12. Napoleon

    USMNT 2023

    On the other hand… CP is only 24. -He is making something like €5M per year. -Milan will pay him a reported €2M per year. -Milan has offered €20M for him . If he were to wait until January, he could sign a 5 year contract for €5M per year (€25M total) and he would make more and cost Milan less than their buying him and paying him €2M per year for 5 years (€30M total). That said, he may get image rights/ a cut of Milan “Pulisic” jerseys sold and the feeling is that between that, endorsement possibilities in Italy, and Champions League winnings(?), he could make €3M to €4M and be playing. PSG isn’t going to let Mbappe go for free next year. He is trying to squeeze one more year out of PSG before leaving on a free transfer (most likely to Real Madrid), because then he could pocket most of what he would be bought for in the form of a signing bonus. PSG’s Qatari owners are all “Fuck That!”
  13. This is an AI image based on Kate Beckinsale, Texas female fans, and “Weird Science”. No if we can just create her in a lab… …like “W.S.”
  14. Alize Cornet just slipped into kind of a hurdler’s stretch going for a deuce point on Rybakina’s serve at 5-5 in the second set after Rybakina won the first set. She looks to have strained that right hip, but not dislocated it. She also has her right thigh wrapped already. Cornet also has had 5 break points in this game. Taylor Fritz just lost on sn Ace to lose the 5th set 2-6 after winning the first two sets against Sweden’s Mikael Ymer. ¡¡ZOINKS!! And Big Foe Frances Tiafoe just hit an ace to win his match in 3 sets. Alize Cornet is going tough it at. Back to deuce.
  15. Napoleon

    USMNT 2023

    1) Sensitive American society doesn’t follow soccer at all… …other than the women’s “equal pay” fight. 2) The majority of soccer players aren’t descended from slaves. 3) Soccer isn’t an American sport. Football, basketball, and baseball are American sports. If things are done differently in soccer, that’s a cultural difference that is dismissed as a “that’s what they do”. But again, English speaking sensitive American society doesn’t pay attention to soccer. Especially not the men’s game. NOTE: The opinions here are my own. No research has been conducted to base these statements on.
  16. It’s Indian AF! This slick, brown, muscle-bound Tennis Channel host who prime on-location hosting gigs, Prakash… …is the brother or cousin of Riske’s husband. I think that Prakash is much shorter than his listed 6’2” (I have thought that he is shorter than my 5’9” from his comparative height when in the Tennis Channel studio.) and Wiki says: “He is the son of former Indian tennis player Vijay Amritraj. I think that he went to USC and the whole Armitrage family is Indian tennis royalty. “WTA Gonna WTA” ALERT: Elina Svitolina beat Elise Mertens 6-1, 1-6, 6-1 😂
  17. Napoleon

    USMNT 2023

    See, in what is now the United State of America, we had over a century tradition of slavery, where humans owned other humans and the American sports landscape is still quite sensitive about that in this day and age. especially because the two biggest sports, NFL & NBA, are comprised of predominantly athletes descended from slaves. “Owning” players and selling players is a third rail. So instead of saying “We are selling this player.”, American sports act like everyone is in on it and you are getting players from different teams to agree to do a work exchange, kind of like Foreign Exchange Students, where one team welcomes a guy into their home in exchange for another person getting to go experience someone else’s home. So contracts may or may not be renegotiated because it is all just a glamorous work exchange among millionaires. Early in the 20th Century, post Reconstruction when the Klan was rising to power, lynchings were common, and no one gave a shit about the feelings of others, player sales did occur in American sports. And the ne’er-do-well son of impoverished working class German-Americans nicknamed “Babe” Ruth was sold by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, so it did happen in the USA sports landscape at one time. And when Ruth made it to NY, he signed a new contract for a significant pay increase… like what happens today in Europe.
  18. Slurp Around & Find Out https://www.instagram.com/reel/Co5UvxNDL3_/?igshid=ZmZhNmZiZDJmOA==
  19. In most of the western hemisphere, this isn’t a big deal. Feeding your kid. That doesn’t mean that I don’t occasionally steal a peek, but it isn’t something to hide or be ashamed of. In the U.S. it is sexualized and women are shamed into hiding the act or leaving to find somewhere to be alone. 🤷‍♂️
  20. Novak just beat Jordan Thompson. It was a close match, but straight sets. But my goodness Thompson has changed his look. I have always known him to look like this: But someone convinced him to clean up his act and today he looked civilized. Civilized even when yelling. If “Queer Eye…” still exists, they must have gotten their claws into him. TSITSIPAS vs THIEM The two are in a 10 point tie-breaker at the end of the 5th set. Tsitsipas just made great plays at the net for the first mini-break at 4-2. Paola Badosa is now dating Tsitsipas and she’s in the stands next to Tsitsi-Dad.
  21. Napoleon

    USMNT 2023

    I remember thinking that Laryea was Canada’s best player. I don’t remember the specifics. I have noticed that after Pulisic was looking more like a super sub in late 2021 and didn’t play like he should be a starter, he has looked great since the World Cup, when playing for the USMNT. He looked pretty good against Panama in the penultimate qualifier when we “all-but-qualified” with a 5-1 win. I think that Pulisic had a hat trick that game, but even Jesús scored in that game.
  22. “Cool story bro” incoming: Big backpacking trip around Europe in 1997. After landing and one night in London, I flew to Madrid, rented a car, and drove to Pamplona. Plan was to watch the bulls run in the morning and then maybe drive over the mountains to Pau, where the race was finishing that afternoon and then starting the next morning. This was pre-Lance (Jan Ullrich won that year.) and the public awareness of camping out for a day or two before the race arrived was not common knowledge. I didn’t realize that I would have been fucked trying to arrive into Pau at about 12pm-2pm with the finish happening later that afternoon. PLANS CHANGE: Basque separatists (ETA) had a political prisoner that they assassinated at midnight while I slept in my car and therefore the bulls didn’t run that day. 😕 I drove to Biarritz to look at tits on the beach for the afternoon and then returned to Pamplona to wait for the bulls the next day. So no visit to Pau. The “What could have been.” will always be there when I think of Pau. Post Mortem: I ended up in Paris for the last day of The Tour. I got to (the north side of) the Place de la Concorde about 3+ hours before the riders did (maybe 5 hours early?) and a guy who said that he rode in the 1950 Tour for Great Britain 🇬🇧 narrated what we were seeing from the various breakaways and taught me all of the ins-and-outs of stage races, so missing Pau worked out fine.
  23. Napoleon

    USMNT 2023

    After starting in the bench, Lampard started putting him into the starting lineup. If Lampard’s teams had been playing well, he would t have been fired. No other manager played Pulisic as much… and they were all fired as well.
  24. Napoleon

    USMNT 2023

    Which “coach” are you talking about? Christian signed with the first manager on the list in January of 2019, but never played for him. He then played (usually sparingly) under all of the rest of the managers on this list. It wasn’t like one manager didn’t think much of him. For the most part, all of these guys didn’t think much of him. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chelsea_F.C._managers NOTE: Bruno Saltor was an interim manager for only 5 days.
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