All right, stop playing sad songs for Sven. The man looks like my 8th grade math teacher and nailed Ulrika Jonsson, and god knows who else.

@Count Antonio Alfonseca Rugen's Sixth Finger: Come to think of it, yes.

@Yostal: Thing is, if you're a New England, New York, LA Galaxy or San Jose fan, you cheer for Lalas getting kicked in the groin.

@Yostal: It's got a long way to go to match Alexi Lalas getting kicked in the cock during a scrum with the Mexicans back in one of those 90s Gold Cups.

I don't like that we're controlling things and only up by a goal, but I do like that there's really no panic and jumpiness in this team at all.

Did Sacha leave all his game on the field against Sweden?

@Rock You Like An Iracane: Workshops - or rather the realization that I really don't work well via the workshop process - was a big factor on me giving up on a creative writing MFA partway through.

Want: a mazy Dempsey run and bomb from the top of the area so I can unleash some Deuce "Don't Tread" on the thread.

Diego Maradona is probably the only coach in the world of soccer who has less idea what he's doing than Domenech.

A little early for the SA 2010 commercial isn't it, US Soccer? I mean, we could still...ah...um...carry on.

Bob Bradley speaks like Jon Stewart's impression of a New Yorker.

Get. to. the. half. up.

Michael frigging Bradley.

@Yostal: And the remake of Patton.

Yes! My Nery Castillo voodoo doll is working!

@Yostal: That's more a Guatemala kind of thing to do (was it Mazetenango or some such outpost they scheduled for us a few years ago?)

@Yostal: In some countries they have a computer-generated ten yard circle and distance-to-goal line on free kicks. I know I've seen it on Italian and I think English broadcasts. It is pretty cool.

The Hawaiian goes Flyin'

So far, just about what we expected, no?

@MrRedDevil: He's just not seeing the field much.