Winner of the World Cup Prediction Pool Game Thing
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…
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GOATS, success, failure and Lionel Messi, aka “Be here now.”
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
Immortality
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
Anything to win, aka “Benvingut, Luis Suarez!”
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, Transfers148 Comments
Misunderstanding Messi, aka “You don’t get it, but that’s okay. Hardly anyone does.”
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
Ugliness in the beautiful game, aka “This is a man’s world”
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
The World Cup Predictions Pool Game Thing
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
Gracies, Equip, aka “Thank you so much for being superhuman”
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
The value of something worthless, aka “The Cesc Fabregas saga continues”
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
Myth vs Reality
02 July 2014
Disappointed by the season? Ready to kick some internet ass and spray your opinions throughout the four corners of the cyberworld? You gotta do what you gotta do. But first, let’s separate the bull from the crap, the pimp from his hoes and hit the judge with its own hammer. Ladies and gentlemen, I present […]
Posted in Barcelona236 Comments
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