Long Slow Goodbye

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How about that USA v. Italy match? It's like DCeiver said, "Italy ain't been hungry since Supreme Clientele." Inserting Clint Dempsey into the starting line up really paid dividends, in my mind. He and Bobby Convey are the only players on our team that can take the ball and get around somebody. Both of them also stay wide and open up the middle for Reyna, McBride and little Landon. Nice to see Kasey Keller finally show up as well. If we win and advance, I say bring on Brazil. They haven't impressed me at all.

Related: Fonts on football jerseys.

As for the NBA finals, fist I present you with this statistic.
Dwyane Wade last night: 25 free throw attempts
The Dallas Mavericks last night: 25 free throw attempts
Now allow me to point out this passage from The Sports Guy on June 8th:

And that's the thing that bothers me about this series: No team depends on the refs quite like the Heat. When the refs are calling all the bumps on Shaq and protecting Wade on every drive, they're unstoppable. When they're calling everything fairly, they're eminently beatable. If they're not getting any calls, they're just about hopeless. I could see the refs swinging two games in Miami's favor during this series, possibly three. In fact, I'm already depressed about it and the series hasn't even started yet.

I would comment more on last night's game, but I went to bed shortly after midnight, right before OT started. Yes I am an old fogey (more on that tomorrow) but I can't see a single reason for a Sunday night NBA Playoff game to last until the wee hours of Monday morning.

I went to see the Nats take on the Evil Empire last Friday. Here are some pictures.

Free up space on your Mac with Disk Inventory X.

Create your own false identity.

Douglas Coupland Explains JPod Title.

Love this Spank Rock photo. Beautiful.

Oh, before I forget, Pitchfork is now a photo blog. And a crappy one at that.

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matt said:

>If we win and advance, I say bring on Brazil. They haven't impressed me at all.

let's not get carried away...

leafblower said:

I'm not saying we're gonna beat them, but we needn't be scared of them.

Granted, they are always slow starters.

Erwin said:

At least Brent Musburger didn't jinx us by trying to predict the score. I'm still sore over his "USA all the way, 2-0" prediction before we faced Iran in '98.

Mario said:

No Way. The Mavs depend on the refs more than any other team I have ever seen. In the Spurs/Mavs series, the Mavs go so many calls at the end of games it was amazing. In all their wins (and some of their loses) they got fouls to tie the game or take the lead...EVERY single time. Except for game 2 and 7, they got the winning points from free throws. But that being said, Wade is getting a lot of calls, but who cares. DIE MAVS DIE


-Angry Spurs Fan.