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Sports Congratulations on Your First-Ever Major League Soccer Goal, Osvaldo Alonso
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:58 PM
If you missed tonight's match—what a match! A tie! Gah!—ESPN2 is rebroadcasting it currently. We're halfway in. (The TV's built-in menu insists that the show on right now is World Series of Poker, but that is not the case.) You have already missed Alonso's marvelous goal and Jaqua's totally improbable goal, but Montero's is still to come.
Congratulations, Alonso.
(Alonso was born in 1985 and has a fascinating biography: "Alonso defected from Cuba while the team was in Houston, Texas to face the Honduran team. Another Cuban teammate, Lester Moré, defected to the United States during the team's same trip to the United States. Alonso was with teammates at a Wal-Mart when he went off by himself while browsing through merchandise and then left the store. Alonso walked several blocks from the store until he found a man who spoke Spanish and borrowed a cell phone to call a friend in Miami, Florida.)
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Fucking KILL ESPN2 Fucking HEADS ROLL!!! Pre-empting OUR nationally televised match -one of our BEST- for fucking COLLEGE BASEBALL!!! WTF!?!? I don't have enough caps and Bold to emphasize enough my rage, frustration, ANGER! let's start a campaign to get Drew to take over the sports network and have a ALL SOUNDERS, ALL THE TIME channel! FUCK espn, FUCK Espn2, and FUCK ARKANSAS/VIRGINIA, you're playing COLLEGE baseball, your careers are over, go back to fucking your cousins in appalachiaville, you fucking republican hicks.
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Heartbreaking draw. I was thinking about it happening to prevent it from happening (fine, I'm superstitious) and it still doesn't feel real. God damn it. And to think of the chances where we could have got the fourth...
On the other hand, we played well, Alonso is immense (how we missed him!), and the atmosphere in the stadium tonight was unreal.
On the other hand, we played well, Alonso is immense (how we missed him!), and the atmosphere in the stadium tonight was unreal.
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Is soccer on of those sports where like 8 out of 11 teams get to be in the playoffs? Where all you have to do is not be the suckiest team on the block to make first round?
Is soccer on of those sports where like 8 out of 11 teams get to be in the playoffs? Where all you have to do is not be the suckiest team on the block to make first round?
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Wow. Registered, verified spam.
Actually I'm thinking of clicking one of those links just to see what the hell.
Actually I'm thinking of clicking one of those links just to see what the hell.
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My first game last night. Being in that crowd was like doing a very pleasant drug. But now I have a lot of questions, Christopher. Like, can you write a guide to all the gestures the fans make (there are several, and I only know the one). And what are we chanting? The girl next to me thought maybe "Seattle/Sounders" but her boyfriend wasn't so sure. Anyway, Sounders: highly recommended.
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Yeah, I don't blame ESPN2 at all. It was an elimination game, where Arkansas came back to tie it in the bottom of the 9th. And then it went 13 innings!
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Yeah, don't blame ESPN, it was fukin' College World Series.
Of course it's easy for me to be okay with it. I watched the entire Sounders game online.
Of course it's easy for me to be okay with it. I watched the entire Sounders game online.
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Um, since when does anyone care about college baseball? (And how absurd is it for them to use the phrase "World Series" to describe their tournament?) (And shouldn't KONG get the game back if ESPN's flubbing it?)
Our offense was beautiful in the bit of the game I was allowed to watch by ESPN, all the way up to the box, where a couple of first touch strikes would've been lovely to see instead of the nervous lining up of shots while the defense reorganized. Keller's pissed about the defending--which I love. Having Ljungberg at one end and Keller at the other, the kids on this team aren't going to get let off easily when they screw up.
Our offense was beautiful in the bit of the game I was allowed to watch by ESPN, all the way up to the box, where a couple of first touch strikes would've been lovely to see instead of the nervous lining up of shots while the defense reorganized. Keller's pissed about the defending--which I love. Having Ljungberg at one end and Keller at the other, the kids on this team aren't going to get let off easily when they screw up.
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Calm down soccer fans, don't go trampling anyone over this. Its OK, maybe ESPN wanted to show games where a team actually wins and the other loses. Go eat your orange slices, drink your capri-sun, and get in your friends' hot moms' mini van and drive off into the sunset of draws and hooliganism.
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@13 I was thinking along those lines during an endless Spring Training game between the scrubs off the Ms and some other unfortunate team, as it went into extra innings. A little obsessive at that point, no?
To say nothing of playing a 162-game season, where you'll probably know who the best team is by record at the end, even if they were allowed to have draws, but somehow that immediately becomes meaningless anyway because you need to have three rounds of playoffs to determine the actual best team! Good thing they settled who won that whatever game in March between two lousy teams.
To say nothing of playing a 162-game season, where you'll probably know who the best team is by record at the end, even if they were allowed to have draws, but somehow that immediately becomes meaningless anyway because you need to have three rounds of playoffs to determine the actual best team! Good thing they settled who won that whatever game in March between two lousy teams.
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To My Dog Ben-
Well said.
Emearld City Supporters have all the chants posted at http://www.weareecs.com/media/songs/
Sounders 'Til I Die is sung at the 74'
Well said.
Emearld City Supporters have all the chants posted at http://www.weareecs.com/media/songs/
Sounders 'Til I Die is sung at the 74'
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My anger at ESPN came from the fact that the other ESPN channels were basically showiung the same baseball game. Maybe Sportscenter or the ESPN Spartsday could ahve been bumped for either the Sounders or the crappy baseball game.
What pissed me off more was the numbers of runners being left on base by that Viginia team. How many chances do you need to win a friggin game!
Of course the Mariners fans watching the other tv in the bar chiding me that a crappy college baseball game was more important than the MLS "Game of the Week" did not help my mood either.
What pissed me off more was the numbers of runners being left on base by that Viginia team. How many chances do you need to win a friggin game!
Of course the Mariners fans watching the other tv in the bar chiding me that a crappy college baseball game was more important than the MLS "Game of the Week" did not help my mood either.
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Keller, I see now, basically blames the creative offensive work for giving back the game, in quotes on Jose Romero's blog:
"I wouldn't have cared if we would have not created one more chance the rest of the game. That's the mentality. If they give us something, great. If they don't, it doesn't matter. We close up shop and it's over. We clear the ball when it has to be cleared. I tackle when he has to be tackled, I run with my guy. I bite, I scratch to get a result. [Not] 'No, I'm not going to run with them, because if it breaks down, then I'm going to have a better chance to go forward and maybe score the fourth goal.' It doesn't work that way. You're going to get found out."
"I wouldn't have cared if we would have not created one more chance the rest of the game. That's the mentality. If they give us something, great. If they don't, it doesn't matter. We close up shop and it's over. We clear the ball when it has to be cleared. I tackle when he has to be tackled, I run with my guy. I bite, I scratch to get a result. [Not] 'No, I'm not going to run with them, because if it breaks down, then I'm going to have a better chance to go forward and maybe score the fourth goal.' It doesn't work that way. You're going to get found out."
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Nobody cares about college baseball. All those guys will end up losers like Brandon Morrow, if they are lucky. That was one shitty baseball game being played last night. Of course, ESPN misses the best MLS match of the whole season because it's so important to cover that borefest.
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Keller's right, unfortunately. You have to shut down to protect a two goal lead. That was so tragic. I saw it coming; orange shoes (sorry, don't know DC's players) had that last goal coming for twenty minutes.
We were awesome in the first half though. Really outstanding; could have been four or five at the half with a couple of breaks. And the supporters were UNBELIEVABLE; I got goosebumps when they did that call-and-response thing with the other side of the stadium. Jesus. Blows The Wave all to hell.
It was weird sitting in the "prawn sandwich" seats this time. Padding! Everybody sits! No chanting!
We were awesome in the first half though. Really outstanding; could have been four or five at the half with a couple of breaks. And the supporters were UNBELIEVABLE; I got goosebumps when they did that call-and-response thing with the other side of the stadium. Jesus. Blows The Wave all to hell.
It was weird sitting in the "prawn sandwich" seats this time. Padding! Everybody sits! No chanting!
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