This is so dumb.

Christian Walker should stick to narrating those “Footprints in the Sand” posters

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Matt Nagy is watching this over and over right now.

The response is more about the “In fairness, she knew that Horan was going to end up with a yellow card if she played her the whole game. But she still sucks” kind of take. So fair of you... :eyeroll:

In fairness to Ellis, who got almost everything else wrong, Horan was one yellow card away from being suspended for the France game, so not playing her was a defensible call.

If you think that the Netherlands were perfect against Japan, particularly in the second half when the Japanese attack sliced them open repeatedly, then you and I have a different definition of perfect. 

I’d have to watch the game again to be certain, and I’m probably not going to do that, but I think we have very different recollections on how Dunn performed. However, the more I think about it, I feel it might be a split in the middle situation.

I deeply disagree with a numerous assertions in this article, but I also realize that it is a matter of perspective and there’s a lot we won’t know until the game happens on Friday. However, I will state that for me, based on what we’ve seen in the games so far as well as other results from this year, this match will…

Becoming a postseason hero who blows away hitters in the biggest game of the year is certainly a good way to raise one’s draft stock out of the 38th round.

Unless the stupid rules have changed, going to college means he now can’t be drafted again until after his junior year or he turns 21.

Just this morning I was behind Andy Reid in the buffet line at the Golden Corral in Branson.

Alex “Doughboy” Van Pelt took “serviceable and cheap” and made an 11-year NFL career as a backup QB and an ongoing (currently 13-year) NFL career as a quarterbacks coach, and likely has way fewer physical/mental problems as a result of riding the bench or standing on the sideline for the vast majority of that. He’s…

Andy Reid was at the buffet when Kansas City drafted Patrick Mahomes. And Tyreek Hill. And Kareem Hunt...

Damit! I need to know who else missed a 42 yard field goal attempt today and what they are going to do about it!

Fivethirtyeight also has England at 69 % against Norway. So a moment of honesty, while I completely get that these kinds of tournaments are difficult to predict with their approach and I assume they would freely admit that, some of the ways I’ve understood how they use prior data is deeply suspect for me. Because of…

I had the 3 am nickname first, given to me for my criminal history of trying to get into a grocery store for cigarettes after an unintentional 3 hour couch nap 

Rick Cerone is of a set of guys I remember during my brief time collecting cards whose cards were in seemingly every pack instead of my favorite Indians players. Let’s call them “Bicycle Spoke Guys” because that’s where their cards ended up. Some more of them:

As far as chemistry goes, this is somewhere between Union Carbide Bhopal and a North Korean meth mega-lab.

I teach a Baseball History class and after I showed them the ESPN Dennis Eckersley video biography in class, and they had found out Manning stole Eck’s wife, a couple of them, who play on the baseball team, shot daggers at each other. I later found out the team’s catcher had “stolen” the second baseman’s girlfriend…