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I know. I think that the heartbreaker tonight may well send Ghana through.

Well, if we get past goal differential and total goals scored, HTH is the third tiebreak. But getting there requires a very specific set of results.

I think Ghana destroys Portugal. Ghana will attack relentlessly. Portugal is mentally weak and Ghana isn't.

Incorrect. Total goals scored is the next tiebreaker. The US currently leads by 1 in that category. If GD and total goals are even, then the US would win on Head-to-Head.

Head-to-head is irrelevant. The first tiebreak between Ghana and US comes down to overall goal differential. Right now US is +1, Ghana is -1. So if the US loses and Ghana wins, the margins of the final two games will matter. If the US loses by 2 and Ghana wins, Ghana advances. If the US loses by 1 and Ghana wins…

Americans who don't follow this that closely will lose their shit if Ghana goes through on goal difference when the US beat them head-to-head. Sadly, I think there is fair probability of that happening. The US backline could get carved up by the Germans and Ghana is just way stronger mentally than Portugal.

That's gonna put Ghana through. Portugal is gonna get rolled by the Black Stars.

How can this be the best US WC team ever when the central defenders are not even in the class of Bocanegra and Demerit?

Fuck you all.

People bitching about the quality of the match are seriously underrating the effect of the injuries. It's not even about the players lost or playing less than 100% as much as it is the fact that the US was playing with zero margin for substitutes and playing a game they didn't roadmap for. Ghana saw that and applied…

On a related note, if I have all the relationships worked out correctly, the MILF in the terrible Sprint Framily commercials is fucking the hamster?

And yet it's still better than the NBA Finals tonight. Or on Tuesday.

So what's the something? It's a bit leading to just it hang out there like that when so many want to just assign terrible motivations to everything. My point is that by analyzing only who is somebody's favorite, as opposed to analyzing general favorability, for example, it's had to draw much in the way of…

Voter A changed his favorite from LeBron to KD, just because he likes KD more. That doesn't make him a LeBron hater. In fact, LeBron is his second favorite player. Is Voter A still racist?

I don't have any argument with this, but Shelly Sterling's authority to make this deal (as per the Trust agreement) is really the crux of the case right now, IMO. Two billion dollar sales just don't go down like this, this quickly, with very little opportunity for extensive due diligence on the part of all parties,…

So much of the entire situation right now depends on what may very well be a shaky, "friendly" diagnosis which appears to be the ONLY basis for the authority that Shelly (and by extension Ballmer and the NBA) are relying on in moving forward with the sale and related agreements. I'd love to see Sterling forced out,…

I'm guessing Klinsmann didn't watch Donovan's performance for the Galaxy tonight, but it will keep the story going for a while.

If they're so in favor of this union, why don't they just get on board with allowing players to become NFL professionals whenever the players desire?

A hundred grand? Big fucking deal.