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sweetcell
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 21, 2010 at 07:36 PM UTC #
almost as bad as the officiating at USA-SVN and BRA-CIV: the quality of announcing.  some of their anecdotes and attempts at cutesy humor are down-right painful.  personally, i prefer to keep my sports and my dad humor separate.  "a goal by shambalala - now there's a name just waiting to have a song written for it!".  ugh.

on the upside, they dropped the "ONE GAME CHANGES EVERYTHING" tag-line after the second day of the tournament.  gawd that was annoying, and you could hear that the european announcers weren't nuts about having to say it every 5 minutes.
godsshoeshine
Joined: September 18, 2003 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 22, 2010 at 02:28 PM UTC #
hutch wrote:
south american nations (Arg, Bra, Uru, Para, Chile) - correct me if I'm wrong- have a record of
8 wins and 2 ties in 10 matches so far and have only conceded 4 goals.

All five should go through…


very impressive. gutted for the african nations though
DeathFromAbove1979
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 22, 2010 at 02:44 PM UTC #
South Africa!! wahooo!!
hutch
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 22, 2010 at 11:23 PM UTC #
Dissapointed in Argentina today… Veron is a disaster.. a one man wrecking crew…

NO ideas.. little use of the wings which was the way to play this one.. Clemente Rodriguez my favorite player today and he surely wont start against Mexico

Messi needs to start putting the ball in the back of the net or Argentina is going nowhere.. Call an exorcist urgently!
Got Haggis?
Joined: October 22, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 23, 2010 at 02:55 PM UTC #
not looking good for the US right now.  england up 1-0 - US missing too many opportunities (even though one goal was discounted that should have been a goal)
DeathFromAbove1979
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 23, 2010 at 02:59 PM UTC #
x.x Im not even watching the game and Im stressing out, those limey pricks are up 1-0! We need another 3, errr, 2 goal half!! USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
DeathFromAbove1979
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 23, 2010 at 03:51 PM UTC #
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
flagos
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 23, 2010 at 03:55 PM UTC #
AMAZING
DeathFromAbove1979
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 23, 2010 at 03:56 PM UTC #
Im about to cry at work LEZGO USA!!!
Got Haggis?
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 23, 2010 at 03:58 PM UTC #
fucking brilliant ending…amazing.
godsshoeshine
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 23, 2010 at 06:21 PM UTC #
unreal
hutch
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 23, 2010 at 07:24 PM UTC #
whoa! really got into the USA game and yelled the goal so loud my 7 month old baby freaked!

sweetcell
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 23, 2010 at 07:40 PM UTC #
yeah, it was a pretty emotional one  ;D
vansmack
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 25, 2010 at 09:11 AM UTC #
The television ratings have been through the roof too, even with the early morning West Coast starts.  This is great for US soccer.
slappy
Joined: October 16, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 25, 2010 at 05:54 PM UTC #
betao wrote:
This gave me shivers and nearly brought tears to my eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbn3rOPmR9w

Cool, but the calling it 'The World's reaction' really waters it down. Various bars in the US and Lyon, France hardly equate to the world and just feeds into the stereotype of America being self centered.
godsshoeshine
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 25, 2010 at 06:34 PM UTC #
calling it america's reaction isnt proper either
betao
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Re: World Cup 2010 June 25, 2010 at 09:01 PM UTC #
I mean, they aren't trying to literally mean "the world". It just seemed like the most appropriate title for the video since it wasn't just American bars featured.
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