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QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jun 24, 2006 -> 02:29 PM) I thought Jon was turning the corner after his last start.....he still wasn't pitching inside as much as I would have liked but he was staying in the zone. When you're a Houston batter and you know he's not going to throw first pitch strike and he's going to nibble the corners the ENTIRE at bat, he's Danny Wright. Jon is Danny Wright with mask, and large amounts of money bags around his home. Jon lost his nuts sometime after last years world series.

Why are so many of our hitters chasing high fastball out of the zone today. I mean neck high fastballs out of the zone. Its like Earlton is pitching and we are trying to go deep.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Jun 24, 2006 -> 02:18 PM) I, for one, won't settle for that. Jon was indeed very dissapointing today. His command and control were horrible. But, in his defense, it's not like they were hitting rockets all over the place. You realize that the Astros are a bad hitting team.

What is Brandon McCarthy's role on this team. He doesnt pitch in close games, he doesnt pitch in games like this because we keep throwing Garland out there to give up more runs. This pitcher-catcher combo is having problems coming up with a plan. We have Morgan Ensberg who cant hit an outside pitch, and we are going in on 0-2. Some of this is pitch calling, some of this is Garland throwing a sinker that starts at the knees and goes into the dirt for pitch one and pitch 2. Now we have hitters who are 3-1 and we need baserunners and they are chasing pitches at the neck. We have a problem winning that 9th game.

You have to love Brantley from Baseball tonight. He is using the gun on the telecast to say that Contreras is a soft tosser. He kept on saying, look all he throws is 85, 86 smooth slow delivery, nothing on his fastball. Hey Mullet boy, the gun on the broadcast is for crap.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Jun 23, 2006 -> 01:57 AM) The White Sox were the most talented team in the game last year, alot of the times the most talented team wins. Perhaps, it's harder to figure out why his job is so secure. Well thank god you have Classy Tito to help you get to the playoffs, only to get destroyed by the evil whitesox and their classless manager again.

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I was at the first game of this series, and there was this annoying old man with a whitesox hat screaming strikeout king everytime Thome got up. I asked him, are you for real. How does anyone that is a fan of this team, hate Thome. I thought of that moment tonight when Thome won the game with one swing. Best game of the year for Garcia. He got the memo, the Cards are good. Pujols in the lineup probably helped Garcia focus. What can you say about Jenks. He is now hitting 100, with his sick curve. And Dye had the catch of the game. Sweepage.

The good news from this. He gets warmed up against Freddy Longball tonight. Pujols is going to rock the Tigers this weekend. All that Freddy needs to remember. IBB, IBB, IBB, IBB

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 04:09 PM) Shuster is reporting that Pujols is in the lineup today. IBB, IBB, IBB Done

QUOTE(Steve9347 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 04:02 PM) Im sick of this Chris Duncan bulls***. Daddy needs to realize that baby is in the big leagues. Poor Duncan, his boy got plunked in the tush. Next time tell the fat Arubian to get better control.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 03:39 PM) 2nd goal for the chubby Ronaldo. 4-1 Brazil I hope the US is watching this, and not lining up some MLS retread for Arenas spot. Find one of the coaches on the bench with Brazil and hire them.

Rondaldinho with a sweeeeet feed to on the run. 3-1 Brazil. Hey Bruce Arena, notice that the brazilians dont f***ing lob the ball up a bunch of times with long passes. They use their speed, and feed on the ground. Very very hard to defend, also a lot easier to keep onside. Please US hire the assistant Brazilian coach.

QUOTE(Contreras @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 03:03 PM) From the fan email thread: Can't invoke the patriot act over a newspaper columnist being accused of being a vagina. I never threatened him, so the Sun-Times and the police can't do a damned thing...Not with my IP address, my real address, my phone number, my sat phone number, my fingerprints, my DNA, or even a lock of my flowing mullet. However if you did this from work, they could send the headers of that email(X Originating field) to the [email protected] account and you might have some issues. I just had something like this happen, where someone sent a supposed anonymous email to a paper. They sent it to us, and we forwarded it on to HR. If you did it from your personal account and didnt threaten, then nothing is going to happen.

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 02:55 PM) After I say this piece, I'm out of this. That isn't entirely true. If you wanted to spend the time, he did right a few articles last year when things were going well. He'd get run out of town if he didn't. However, that changed rather quickly around August. There were also a few more late in the playoffs. However, these were the first I've seen of him writing good things about the Sox. In the past virtually every article was bashing Reinsdorf, the current GM, or the current manager. He has a history with the Sox that isn't very pretty, and a half dozen or so positive articles last year doesn't change that. I also haven't seen any in the sampling of articles I've seen/read this year, although I admit I'm not actively looking for them. My favorite douche article is when he warned people to stay away from the cell for their own safety. It was right after there was a public fight in the stands with some off duty cop.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 02:30 PM) Well, like any good liberal, I guess as soon as I get promoted, I take a 2 week vacation. Or is that like the President. Anywho, I'm off to Xinjiang Province in China for 2 weeks to take a look at the Tien Shan mountain range. Get f***ing Detroit out of first place while I'm gone, PLEASE! Adios everyone. Hopefully have some interesting pictures when I return. I spent some time in Suzhou. Hopefully you will have a better time than I did. It was for work, and there is basically nothing edible. Too much smog also. Fatten up before you fly. Good luck.

I want a coach from either Portugal, Brazil or Spain. If they cant speak english, hire a translator. I never want to see a 4-5-1 unless we are up by 2 goals. We need someone hired just to work on striking. At the end of the game I counted at least 5 balls hit over the upright of the goal. Now that is great if they are working on trying out for the NFL, but not for soccer. Landycakes Donovan needs to man up. He is supposedly the face of US soccer. He disappears in big games. Sure he will score 3 goals against some island country. He had a free kick on the edge of the box and booted it a good 30 feet away from the goal. Then he has one he runs into the box, he has one player that he jukes to the right, has an open goal mouth, then backs it out, only to get the ball taken away from him. A striker with any merit takes a shot. He had terrible possession all day long. He is the biggest b**** we have, all that talent. Then he gets home sick and only wants to play in California. Enjoy your 3 nil win over the NY Red Bulls, but remember that you s*** the bed when you faced Liverpool. Long ball tactics. Since when with a team filled with midgets did we decide to start launching long volleys. McBride, Boca, EJ, and Gooch can outjump people. The rest of the circus people are about 5'6 to 5'9. They cannot outjump people 6 foot or taller. Yet we keep lofting the ball and watching our midgets get outjumped. Back passing. It seems everytime we have some momentum built, a 3 on 2 or whatever, some midfielder gets spooked and does a back pass. The ball winds up getting passed all the way back to the goalie. Maybe this is some sort of MLS tactic, but it doesnt fly in international soccer. MLS. Its a nice place for people who wouldnt get a shot at playing 1st team football in Europe. However if you have a player good enough to make it, sell them off and let them extend their skillset. Donovan might feel great taking on some 39 year old Ukrainian star who played for Barca in 1994, but it doesnt help him extend his skills. Dempsey needs to move on, Adu needs to move on, EJ needs to move on. The MLS is a nice starting point, but a bottom level Premiership team would reak havoc in the MLS. Thanks Bruce for the 4-5-1 tactics. I have followed US soccer since 1990. I have never seen any of our coaches use this format. We have problems scoring goals to begin with. So lets make it harder. Hopefully a whole bunch of people at US soccer lose their jobs and we start over. This is not working.

Now ironic. Ghana wants to play more defensive, have put on a new defensive midfielder and have changed their formation to the defensive 4-5-1. Finally EJ is on.

I hate short corners. We are not creative enough to take advantage, and we suck at shooting. Just get a ball into the box and let something happen.

No one is warming up yet. Slug Arena is holding up a post, trying to figure out how to get his resume ready for the NY Red Bulls. Here is the problem with not getting EJ on the pitch yet. You wait 15 minutes, and you take more and more time away from scoring. At about the 75 minute mark, watch how Ghana will have all of this "injuries", they will stall and delay trying to eak this out. Now finally someone is warming up. QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 10:14 AM) Aren't you supposed to move forward if you're trying to score? We are still playing a 4-5-1. And our best offensive threat is parked on the bench.

QUOTE(illinilaw08 @ Jun 22, 2006 -> 09:53 AM) Is it possible Arena is still punishing EJ for that "war" comment. If he is, that is absolutely ridiculous, but it is the only explanation I can think of for why your best goal scorer in qualifying is not on the pitch. In the last WC our hottest striker was Mathis. He sat on the bench pretty much the entire WC. EJ still not on the pitch. DUMB f*** ARENA WHAT THE f*** ARE YOU WAITING FOR. WE NEED GOALS. PUT A STRIKER ON THE PITCH, YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAS SCORED GOALS BEFORE. STOP WITH YOUR DC UNITED CONNECTION. FIRE THIS SLUG AFTER THIS GAME.

Bulls*** weak call. Mother f***ing s***head ref. Gooch on a 50/50 gets called for a penalty in the box. f***. 2-1 Ghana Momentum gone. Boca with a s*** clearance. He got cute. And got burned. If EJ doesnt make the pitch as a 2nd half sub and he is healthy. Arena needs to be fired before the post game interview. Our best attacking option has been sitting on the bench for most of this WC. He came into the Czech game and made a huge difference in the attack. We are now down a goal. Its time to abandon the 4-5-1 and attack.

Holy s***, Beasley jumped over a tackle. Ran the ball towards the box, then passed it on to Dempsey. Thats how a break is supposed to be played. Get EJ onto the pitch. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First sub, Ben Olsen(one of Arenas former DC United players). What a shock. JOB should of been in there. Basically if you ever played for DC United, you have a shot at making the US roster with Arena on the team.

There is an example on why the US has no clue on how to play WC football. When you get a counter or a mismatched attack, you drive towards the goal. You do not use a back pass, and wait for you to setup. You drive into the box and make something happen. These are our supposed playmakers dropping back passes.