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26 July 2014
Whatevs … Summer is here, and after years of neglect of the sporting project, transfers are being made, players coming in that people — most notably the folks whose asses are on the line — hope will improve the team. Finally! Whatevs … not good enough.
Posted in Thoughts, Transfers, Transfers/Transfer Rumors49 Comments
19 July 2014
Nope, I haven’t forgotten about this. (Can I get a drumroll, please?) The winner of the first BFB World Cup Predictions Game is…
Posted in Contests, World Cup245 Comments
14 July 2014
The World Cup is over and now the debates begin about Messi, roiling tempests that reduce the actual winner of the tournament to a seeming afterthought. And they are so predictable that it’s almost lazy, as if by rote the same lines are drawn by the same groups of people: – Look at the stats. […]
Posted in Messi, Thoughts, World Cup280 Comments
12 July 2014
6 Ligas 2 Copas del Rey 6 Supercopas de España 3 Champions Leagues 2 UEFA Super Cups 2 FIFA World Cups 1 Olympic Gold Medal
Posted in Barcelona, Player Profiles, Preview80 Comments
11 July 2014
Let’s be clear about this: The Luis Suarez transfer is a vile, disgusting act by desperate men, a board trying to save its power-hungry asses and a new coach who doesn’t want to be like his predecessor. It’s at the terminus of an arc of lies and neglect of a sporting project. At the end […]
Posted in Team News, Thoughts, Transfers149 Comments
06 July 2014
Messi doesn’t care. If you want to understand Messi, understand that. It took a while for me to figure that out, but this most recent World Cup brought a lot into perspective for me regarding Lionel Messi. There have been some excellent articles on him: a piece that goes back to Rosario, a statistical breakdown […]
Posted in Messi, Supposition, Thoughts208 Comments
04 July 2014
“I never meant to hurt anyone. I was defending my shirt.” The beautiful game wasn’t at all today as Brazil faced off against Colombia in the quarterfinals of the 2014 World Cup. The sad part is that you could see it coming even before the match started as the coach of Brazil, “Big Phil” Scolari, […]
Posted in Neymar, Thoughts89 Comments
Posted in Analysis, World Cup288 Comments
02 July 2014
So, I was thinking of what to do during the World Cup and settled on a kind of predictions game. It’ll be too complicated if it was done game by game so my twitter followers kindly narrowed it down to a couple of simple questions, or for those who find it easier and/or more familiar […]
Posted in Analysis, Contests55 Comments
Posted in Analysis, Neymar163 Comments
02 July 2014
These are tough times. Poor babies that we are, we have to suffer through a team that finished second in the Liga, in it until the final match, made the Copa final and Champions League quarterfinals. In a sport in which a two-year cycle is extraordinary, our team has been at or near the top […]
Posted in Analysis, La Liga, Thoughts345 Comments
02 July 2014
Value: noun 1. the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something. verb 1. estimate the monetary worth of (something). Value is a fun notion to contemplate. I like to think of it as two cars that passed through my possession. One was a big ol’ red sedan that […]
Posted in La Liga, Thoughts, Transfers, Transfers/Transfer Rumors179 Comments
