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Sports World Cups
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:57 PM
In other hot soccer player news, this:
Ah. That's better.
Also, remember when I said no one cares about soccer? I wasn't wrong.
Check out this photo of the huuuuuuuuuge Sounders rally in Pioneer Square.
What is that, like, twelve people?
Rally photo courtesy of Rob Golkosky
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Soccer is ninety minutes without commercial breaks or fat-man pauses or stopping the clock. In 90 minutes plus a 10-minute halftime you're out of the stadium. One goes for the sport, not the overpriced beer or nachos or litigious referees.
The "soccer is lame" sentiment in the d-bag media is unjustified. Joe-the-Plumber type sentiments are getting old.
And when was the last time Mariners fans held an impromptu rally?
The "soccer is lame" sentiment in the d-bag media is unjustified. Joe-the-Plumber type sentiments are getting old.
And when was the last time Mariners fans held an impromptu rally?
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Dude... get over it. You were wrong about the popularity of soccer. On my way home there were a shit ton of Sounders fans waiting at bus stops, screaming and waving their little Sounders scarves. Traffic on the viaduct was all fucked up.
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Real sports don't allow games to end in a tie. The Sounders will be playing to a near empty Qwest Field in less than 5 years. Professional soccer in America is more laughable than the WNBA.
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Thank you for the boobies...
Now I am off to start drinking with the 89 Sounders fans in Juneau, Alaska.
GO SOUNDERS
Now I am off to start drinking with the 89 Sounders fans in Juneau, Alaska.
GO SOUNDERS
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What would you rather have a MLS championship or a five dollar bill you found on the street?
Hmmm, a footlong subway.
Hmmm, a footlong subway.
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Anyone know what bars are showing the sounders game instead of basketball (which is a game of points that are just statistical fluctuations)
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Why is it, I ask you, that The Stranger goes all mushy and tender of skateboarders, but has such a pissy attitude towards soccer? I mean, skateboarding is SO 1990's.
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Damn #15 - You beat me to it!
In Cup games (playoff system) soccer is either played to penalty kicks or the whole game is replayed (usually at the other teams venue).
In regular league games soccer can tie, just like the NFL.
In Cup games (playoff system) soccer is either played to penalty kicks or the whole game is replayed (usually at the other teams venue).
In regular league games soccer can tie, just like the NFL.
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@15: to be fair, Donovan McNabb, who played in a superbowl once, was apparently also a little unclear on that point.
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@15: to be fair, Donovan McNabb, who played in a superbowl once, was apparently also a little unclear on that point.
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Catalina you do know that after making fun of skateboarders some months ago, I've had them stalking me ever since? They are sensitive creatures.
It's worth it, to be sure, especially if you're a bad person such as myself who takes pleasure in cruelty towards ridiculous people. I only want to warn you what you're in for.
It's worth it, to be sure, especially if you're a bad person such as myself who takes pleasure in cruelty towards ridiculous people. I only want to warn you what you're in for.
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EXCELLENT point, Soccer fans. A tie CAN occur in the NFL. Bravo. An event that happens once every few years!
I'm gonna completely change my view of this sport now that it is on par with the NFL.
I'm gonna completely change my view of this sport now that it is on par with the NFL.
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Maybe if they offered some red wine, more people would show up. QFC has quite a few bottles in the $8.99 range. As a sports organization, I'm sure the Sounders could afford to pay that.
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Do you really need the victory of one game to feel good? It is about the whole season. The superior team agonizes in the final minutes when a tie is possible because it feels like a loss. An inferior side can treat a tie as a moral victory.
The americanized NHL did away with ties as well.
Some psych major should stroll by and tell us why americans need resolution in every segement of a sports season when, in soccer at least, the rest of the world looks at the bigger picture.
The americanized NHL did away with ties as well.
Some psych major should stroll by and tell us why americans need resolution in every segement of a sports season when, in soccer at least, the rest of the world looks at the bigger picture.
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It's OK to say American soccer or Seattle soccer is not up to snuff, compared to soccer leagues abroad. But why make fun of soccer just 'cause you don't get it?
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And FWIW, technically a tie CAN also occur in Major League Baseball, for example, if a game is called on account of weather after completing five or more innings, or if both teams run out of substitute players, or if the umpire calls an end to play after an extraordinary number of extra innings.
However, tie games themselves are not counted for league standings (although individual player stats are still counted), unless they are finished or replayed at a later time.
However, tie games themselves are not counted for league standings (although individual player stats are still counted), unless they are finished or replayed at a later time.
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I just wonder about the sports tribalism here. We all live in Seattle shouldn't we root for our teams. All of our teams. We root against other cities. Not dbag it up by saying my balls are better because they are round and not oblong. Should we form our tribal lines around our city not which sport is better?
PS - WNBA sucks
PS - WNBA sucks
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I went to a soccer game once. It was the most boring game that I have ever seen in my life.
Yeah, maybe there are more than 12 soccer fans in the picture but if you subtract the homeless you have something like 18 tops!
Yeah, maybe there are more than 12 soccer fans in the picture but if you subtract the homeless you have something like 18 tops!
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HOLY SHIT THAT PICTURE IS AMAZPGOHERPPGMQOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
...
"Your brain has experienced an error and must be restarted."
...
"Your brain has experienced an error and must be restarted."
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Does it come down to the fact that you have to care about the sport or at least some of the players?
I mean baseball is slow...3 hours +. NFL with tv timeouts is 3.5. Soccer is a quick game. 45 minutes halves plus injury time. 10 minutes at halftime. So 100 - 110 minutes.
Every game can seem like a freaking week if you dont give a damn. Ask the zombie looking people dragged to a mariners game.
I mean baseball is slow...3 hours +. NFL with tv timeouts is 3.5. Soccer is a quick game. 45 minutes halves plus injury time. 10 minutes at halftime. So 100 - 110 minutes.
Every game can seem like a freaking week if you dont give a damn. Ask the zombie looking people dragged to a mariners game.
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elecheesos, you are almost worse than fnarf - get off the fucking computer and get a life.
spamming all over doesn't gain you stalkers you dipshit
http://www.myballard.com/2009/03/18/liqu…
spamming all over doesn't gain you stalkers you dipshit
http://www.myballard.com/2009/03/18/liqu…
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Unfortunately, soccer is doomed in Seattle because the female fans don't look like this hot chick, but more like this:
http://www.southbayriders.com/forums/att…
http://www.southbayriders.com/forums/att…
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Actually, footie should be Seattle's official sport: made popular here by ugly, ball kicking dykes.
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Here's what you get in the stands in Rio:
http://xray.bmc.uu.se/dombo/pics/brazili…
Here's what you'll get in Seattle:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co…
Good luck making footie a national sport.
http://xray.bmc.uu.se/dombo/pics/brazili…
Here's what you'll get in Seattle:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co…
Good luck making footie a national sport.
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I haven't been this dissatisfied with the Strangers staff overall in like, a decade.
Get with it, Dan. You can do way better.
Get with it, Dan. You can do way better.
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for #38 & Dan:
the problem isn't so much the staff, but idiots like @34-37 and maybe even #38. I was staunchly against commenter reg. but now, not so much.
thanks.
the problem isn't so much the staff, but idiots like @34-37 and maybe even #38. I was staunchly against commenter reg. but now, not so much.
thanks.
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@34
Skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders trip upon the thorns of life. They bleed!
Ow!
Skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders skateboarders trip upon the thorns of life. They bleed!
Ow!
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39 --
I'm talking about a really sucky and questionable staff =============== sucky and questionable content.
I don't care about comments.
I'm talking about a really sucky and questionable staff =============== sucky and questionable content.
I don't care about comments.
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So yeah at 37... thanks for missing the NSFW warning asshat.
And this argument is dumb. It's a matter of opinion. Some people like Soccer, some don't... end of subject.
And this argument is dumb. It's a matter of opinion. Some people like Soccer, some don't... end of subject.
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really longtime reader @42, what is it about the staff that you find so sucky and questionable now?
you do know they are at an alt weekly and this is a blog? right?
perhaps your expectations are set a notch or nine too high.
this is not about defending them, it's about realistic expectations about the supposed "newssource" we're using.
and the trolls suck.
you do know they are at an alt weekly and this is a blog? right?
perhaps your expectations are set a notch or nine too high.
this is not about defending them, it's about realistic expectations about the supposed "newssource" we're using.
and the trolls suck.
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I continue to be amazed that people who live in the USA think that the sports they invented Basketball & NFL or changed Baseball (the English invented Rounders as a kid's game) are the ONLY sports worth following (in indeed the only real sports in the world).
None of the World Series Championships you guys continue to crow about actually involves any other country in the world (with the exception of the Basball one sometimes).
On the other hand a large number of countries in the rest of the world participate in and celebrate four world championships that actually involve the world:
Football (soccer to you, the New Zealanders and us Australians:)played on all continents (with the exception of Antartica)
Cricket: played in over a dozen former British Empire countries
Rugby Union: Most Western European countries, and a big chunk of the westernised former British Empire countries
Rugby League: Ditto
A large number of players in both of the Rugby codes and Football regularly spend time playing in other countries. In the two rugby codes there are even some players who move between the codes.
None of the World Series Championships you guys continue to crow about actually involves any other country in the world (with the exception of the Basball one sometimes).
On the other hand a large number of countries in the rest of the world participate in and celebrate four world championships that actually involve the world:
Football (soccer to you, the New Zealanders and us Australians:)played on all continents (with the exception of Antartica)
Cricket: played in over a dozen former British Empire countries
Rugby Union: Most Western European countries, and a big chunk of the westernised former British Empire countries
Rugby League: Ditto
A large number of players in both of the Rugby codes and Football regularly spend time playing in other countries. In the two rugby codes there are even some players who move between the codes.
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@37: So what you're saying is... we need to import lots of hot Brazilian women.
What is the problem with this plan?
What is the problem with this plan?
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Just like Twitter I don't get soccer.
Big old pathetic waste of time.
Still waiting for the international soccer fans to wake up and realize what fools they are.
Big old pathetic waste of time.
Still waiting for the international soccer fans to wake up and realize what fools they are.
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just as a point of reference, there was nobody at the rally because we were all getting "festive" at the bars before the game....
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Soooo, let me see if I have this straight: the classic american douche bag sports fan HATES soccer? The hipster who thinks all sports are awful hates it out of reflex.....and I should be offended why exactly?
I LOVE this game more than most things, and no I don't have shitty taste in music, film, art, etc... and No, I don't swill the millah lites at the neon sports bar. I'm kinda happy with the average soccer fan in this country, and even more so here in the PNW.
Kind to one another because we are a minority. Enthusiastic, because we have to answer 25 dumb questions every time there is an event/match we are excited about. And btw- a match ending in a draw actually is generally QUITE dramatic. How many american sports can have a WINNER until the final second? And while we are at it, that happens a LOT, and it beats all finales in any sport anywhere. But that's subjective....
I love welcoming anyone into learning about the game (our world cup involves the WORLD...I'm listening other sports...) and if it takes good, if not, oh well, I'm not some demon determined to make you understand why the ones that love this game, LOVE THIS GAME.
So thanks for mocking soccer one more time. I have some fish and a shotgun if you need an easier shot.
I LOVE this game more than most things, and no I don't have shitty taste in music, film, art, etc... and No, I don't swill the millah lites at the neon sports bar. I'm kinda happy with the average soccer fan in this country, and even more so here in the PNW.
Kind to one another because we are a minority. Enthusiastic, because we have to answer 25 dumb questions every time there is an event/match we are excited about. And btw- a match ending in a draw actually is generally QUITE dramatic. How many american sports can have a WINNER until the final second? And while we are at it, that happens a LOT, and it beats all finales in any sport anywhere. But that's subjective....
I love welcoming anyone into learning about the game (our world cup involves the WORLD...I'm listening other sports...) and if it takes good, if not, oh well, I'm not some demon determined to make you understand why the ones that love this game, LOVE THIS GAME.
So thanks for mocking soccer one more time. I have some fish and a shotgun if you need an easier shot.
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It was still enough people to fuck up my commute from downtown to Seward Park last night. I hate soccer even more now.
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that girl is not that great looking, i mean she has a nice body and big fake boobies but honestly only about a 6 (out of 10) on the face. not that impressed Jonah, and eff you for not putting it under a cut.
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@34 no, being sharper, moar clevererer, wittier and funnier than *you* is what gets elenchos all those stalkers.
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Oh come on... everyone knows there is no "home fan" in the number 12 anymore.
the rest is just agent profiler selling you cheese whiz on the re-run channel that connects your nerve bundles between yoyur temporal lobes and your pair-of-knee-ums.
the rest is just agent profiler selling you cheese whiz on the re-run channel that connects your nerve bundles between yoyur temporal lobes and your pair-of-knee-ums.
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