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Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game |
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Posted by mr_brian on Mon Jun 12 15:43:52 2006, in response to USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 15:02:59 2006. Hopefully they can play better in their next match. |
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Posted by JPC on Mon Jun 12 16:15:58 2006, in response to USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 15:02:59 2006. See, that's why we're not interested in soccer.We're usually not interested in things we're not good at. Which would make you think that we'd stop invading and occupying other countries... |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Mon Jun 12 16:43:38 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by JPC on Mon Jun 12 16:15:58 2006. However, the US was ranked #5 overall of all the teams entering the FIFA World Cup. Getting placed in the Group of Death though has not helped soccer's cause in the USA. |
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Posted by Charles G on Mon Jun 12 16:46:21 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by AMoreira81 on Mon Jun 12 16:43:38 2006. It's pretty clear that the #5 ranking was smoke and mirrors. The #5 teams doesn't get absolutely smoked by the #2 team the way we lost today. |
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Posted by Charles G on Mon Jun 12 16:47:46 2006, in response to USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 15:02:59 2006. Pretty disappointing. We'll need at least a win and a tie against Ghana and Italy to have any shot at advancing. IIRC margin of victory/defeat matters, so we may need 2 victories given the horrendous performance today. |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 18:17:11 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by AMoreira81 on Mon Jun 12 16:43:38 2006. We weren't really even in the group of death. I think that we're in the 2nd toughest group. Argentina, Ivory Coast, Serbia, and Holland are considered a tougher group by most. |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 18:21:11 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Charles G on Mon Jun 12 16:47:46 2006. I don't see us getting a point for a tie. Italy and even Ghana looked superior to us. I can't even describe how disappointed I am.I knew we weren't 5th, but we looked like we didn't even belong on the same field as the Czech's. And they barely even qualified for the world cup! |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Jun 12 19:32:45 2006, in response to USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 15:02:59 2006. I'd be upset, if I cared. |
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Posted by Fred G on Mon Jun 12 19:37:10 2006, in response to USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 15:02:59 2006. You're overdramatizing; they lost a soccer match to a better team.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Jun 12 19:40:37 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Fred G on Mon Jun 12 19:37:10 2006. The key word is soccer match. It's not as if it were an important sport. |
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Posted by BIE on Mon Jun 12 19:46:53 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Jun 12 19:40:37 2006. Soccer IS an important sport. So is Basketball. America'd kick their ass at B-Ball. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Mon Jun 12 19:50:37 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by BIE on Mon Jun 12 19:46:53 2006. Ha! Italy and France have caught up to us. And if the most recent Worlds weren't an indication...Americans have a WAYS to go, since a FOREIGN-born player will likely lead a team to the NBA Title. (And Shaq can't use the flopternity defense anymore.) |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 19:53:46 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by BIE on Mon Jun 12 19:46:53 2006. Have you been watching our recent performances using NBA stars? I'm not sure that we even medalled at the last two world championships. |
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Posted by Charles G on Mon Jun 12 21:57:42 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by BIE on Mon Jun 12 19:46:53 2006. Haven't the Czechs beaten us at basketball recently? |
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Posted by New Brunswick Station on Mon Jun 12 22:05:55 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by mr_brian on Mon Jun 12 15:43:52 2006. Yeah, right. Good luck getting pummeled, team! |
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Posted by South Ferry on Tue Jun 13 03:33:51 2006, in response to USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 15:02:59 2006. IAWTP. I only saw teh first 35 minutes, but those are 35 minutes I regret. |
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Posted by Fred G on Tue Jun 13 07:10:42 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Jun 12 19:40:37 2006. Sour grapes. It's played by the entire planet and Americans cannot win at it.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by SUBWAYSURF on Tue Jun 13 07:15:09 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Fred G on Tue Jun 13 07:10:42 2006. True, American football ain't all that popular outside of North America. |
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Posted by Fred G on Tue Jun 13 07:16:23 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by SUBWAYSURF on Tue Jun 13 07:15:09 2006. American sports have been completely compromised by television.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by SUBWAYSURF on Tue Jun 13 07:28:05 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Fred G on Tue Jun 13 07:16:23 2006. Not to mention corpoRAT america. |
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Posted by Fred G on Tue Jun 13 07:34:31 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by SUBWAYSURF on Tue Jun 13 07:28:05 2006. Believe it or not, when I was a kid you could go to a ball game and get bleacher seats for what it cost to see a movie. It's gotten out of hand.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by SUBWAYSURF on Tue Jun 13 07:39:11 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Fred G on Tue Jun 13 07:34:31 2006. Haha when I was a kid we were able to sneak into Yankee Stadium. No more. Always got away with it by saying we were with the CYO or PAL group. Moved around ALOT but got to see the game. |
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Posted by Fred G on Tue Jun 13 07:47:00 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by SUBWAYSURF on Tue Jun 13 07:39:11 2006. LMAO..."CYO"your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Jun 13 09:32:31 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Fred G on Tue Jun 13 07:16:23 2006. American sports have been completely compromised by television.Baseball is the only one of the three major sports that's been able to maintain its integrity when it comes to television. There are natural breaks in play which allow for commercials to be aired without disruption of the game schedule. Contrast it with football and basketball, in which the entire pace of the game is built around commercials (e.g. football's 2-minute warning and basketball's incessant timeouts near the end of the game.) My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jun 13 12:20:26 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Fred G on Tue Jun 13 07:10:42 2006. BUT, it's not popular in America. That renders it irrelevant, no matter how it whips up the masses in Prague. /ugly American |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jun 13 12:22:27 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by AMoreira81 on Mon Jun 12 19:50:37 2006. Do we really need to dominate the world in yet another field? Let the peons have their soccer. |
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Posted by Deaks on Tue Jun 13 12:26:00 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by AMoreira81 on Mon Jun 12 16:43:38 2006. The presence of Ghana and it's still a "group of death"? There are no real "groups of death", each group has one or two decent-to-good teams in it and the others are merely making up the numbers. |
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Posted by mambomta on Tue Jun 13 12:28:48 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Jun 13 09:32:31 2006. Baseball is the only one of the three major sports that's been able to maintain its integrity when it comes to television. There are natural breaks in play which allow for commercials to be aired without disruption of the game schedule.And television is still trying it's darndest to change that. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jun 13 12:35:15 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Jun 13 09:32:31 2006. Tell that to Pedro Martinez, who was fuming at FOX for making him wait every inning so that they could get all their commercials in a few weeks ago. Advertising has disrupted baseball. If I wanted to know that David Wright was the 15th batter of the game, I'd be told without also noting that Geico wants me to know that I could save 15% on my car insurance. |
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Posted by mambomta on Tue Jun 13 12:40:32 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jun 13 12:35:15 2006. Advertising has disrupted baseball.But not yet as badly as some other sports. |
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Posted by JPC on Tue Jun 13 12:49:58 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Deaks on Tue Jun 13 12:26:00 2006. The presence of Ghana and it's still a "group of death"? Oh, we're gonna PWN the US... I got your weapons of mass destruction for ya. |
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Posted by SUBWAYSURF on Wed Jun 14 03:18:09 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jun 13 12:35:15 2006. He shouldn't be fuming at FOX he should be fuming at Major League Baseball. Typical neanderthal jock mentality |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Jun 14 04:47:08 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Jun 13 09:32:31 2006. A baseball game used to last 2 hours. Now it's double that, mostly because of the advertising holdup. In addition to its relative cost, it was like going to a movie, something you did in addition to your afternoon/evening activities, not an event that you centered the whole day around. That Met game I attended a couple of weeks ago took 4 hours for 9 innings, and another hour and a half for the extra innings. There's 5 and a half hours, so now it's a major daily event, and the tailgate party has been borrowed from football, so it's more like an 8 hour day at the ballpark. Nothing against tailgating, mind you; it's ok to get your beer drinking prepwork done at $1 a bottle rather than at $6.75. That's another gripe for a future rant...your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Wed Jun 14 09:35:03 2006, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by mambomta on Tue Jun 13 12:40:32 2006. Advertising has disrupted baseball.But not yet as badly as some other sports. Exactly. Pre-existing breaks between innings might be lengthened to accommodate more TV commercials. While hardly ideal, that's much better than what happens in football and basketball, in which breaks in the action are created merely for TV purposes (e.g. the loathesome "two minute warning"). Those can change the entire flow of a game and possibly affect its outcome. My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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Posted by Easy on Fri Jun 12 06:19:53 2026, in response to USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 15:02:59 2006. 20 years later. Hopefully history doesn't repeat. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Fri Jun 12 10:11:28 2026, in response to USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 15:02:59 2006. Soccer is not our game. Never was. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Jun 12 11:27:52 2026, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Mitch45 on Fri Jun 12 10:11:28 2026. Yep. Remember the NY Cosmos? I'll guess not many do. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Fri Jun 12 12:34:02 2026, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Fri Jun 12 06:19:53 2026. Should be a good game. |
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Posted by Easy on Fri Jun 12 13:07:02 2026, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Jun 12 11:27:52 2026. I saw them play an exhibition game when I was very young. Pele was on the team and he was the main attraction. |
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Posted by Easy on Fri Jun 12 13:10:54 2026, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Mitch45 on Fri Jun 12 10:11:28 2026. Who is "our"...America? It wasn't invented here, but it's now the third most popular professional sport in the US behind football and basketball. Baseball is next and I guess hockey after that. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Jun 12 13:23:59 2026, in response to USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 15:02:59 2006. Water closet game?!? |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Jun 12 20:39:15 2026, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by LuchAAA on Fri Jun 12 12:34:02 2026. I clicked onto "First in Thread". Talk about some of those blast-from-the-past handles. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Fri Jun 12 20:54:47 2026, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Fri Jun 12 20:39:15 2026. I wish many handles would return. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Jun 12 21:13:06 2026, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Fri Jun 12 13:10:54 2026. Talk to me when there is a Soccer hall of fame in this country, akin to Cooperstown or Canton. It will never catch on in this country the way the NFL, MLB or NBA or even the NHL has. Its been tried time and time again& never got any good traction |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jun 12 21:18:47 2026, in response to Re: USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Jun 12 21:13:06 2026. The National Soccer Hall of Fame is a public-private partnership among FC Dallas, the City of Frisco, Frisco Independent School District, and the U.S. Soccer Federation,[3] and currently located in Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. It honors soccer achievements in the United States. Induction is the highest honor in American soccer.[4][5][6] |
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USA up 3-0 at half in 1st 2026 WC Game |
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Posted by Easy on Fri Jun 12 22:08:51 2026, in response to USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 15:02:59 2006. Best half of soccer in US World Cup history. Paraguay isn't terrible and we're destroying them! |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Fri Jun 12 22:11:56 2026, in response to USA up 3-0 at half in 1st 2026 WC Game, posted by Easy on Fri Jun 12 22:08:51 2026. Yes.But I didn't like the corner kick/head butt goal. Why? It was a good strategy that we should have saved for a future game. Now the other teams have seen the move. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jun 12 23:03:48 2026, in response to USA Loses BIG in 1st WC Game, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 12 15:02:59 2006. 4-1 against Paraguay.You can thank your lucky stars we don’t live in Paraguay. |
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Re: USA up 3-0 at half in 1st 2026 WC Game |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jun 12 23:05:55 2026, in response to USA up 3-0 at half in 1st 2026 WC Game, posted by Easy on Fri Jun 12 22:08:51 2026. Sorry, didn’t see this thread. |
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