Deuce Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 That coach should've just hung up the phone after so long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 The radio has been unbeeeeeeearable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Fuck you, midwest! edit: Fuck you too, Maine! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Do the Dakotas and those other shit cattle states count as the Midwest? Makes for sense for the name I guess, always considered it Illinois/Minnesota/Michigan/etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stlouismag Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Growing up in Michigan, if a state didn't have a Big Ten university (back when it was ten . . . don't get me started on that!) in it, we didn't consider it part of the Midwest. Having lived in St. Louis for the past 20 years, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska definitely include themselves in the Midwest, and folks here would almost certainly exclude Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan from the definition. Probably would exclude Wisconsin and Minnesota too if they ever thought about it. In other words, the Midwest is a pretty flexible concept with some serious regional variation in its definition. More a state of mind than anything else really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 There was something on 538 about this recently actually http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-states-are-in-the-midwest/ Looks like it just depends where you're from. I grew up in Michigan too, and for some reason always considered Illinois to be the center of the Midwest, with surrounding states making up the rest. Never thought of Idaho or Montana as part of it though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miercoles Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 I always just vaguely defined it as "the shitty middle part of the country" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Excellent video. Fair play to you guys, yous did good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 They were so god damn horrible literally tried to score twice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Pardiola's wet dream performance, but they lost Super Jozy and Besler to injury and still stuck one in the scorebag when it would've been easy to roll over and die. Jermaine Jones on the left wing even worked ffs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 They were parked so hard. Ghana were starting to break them down. Beckerman was good, mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Beckerman and Jones both played far better than I imagined they would. I guess the massively defensive mindset means they stand out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 As much as people love to hate Jozy, his loss is huge. No one else in the squad is capable of holding the ball up and stretching the defense like he is. And for as poor as he played for Sunderland, it's night and day when he puts on the U.S. kit. Ghana completely took over the game when he went off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 They were parked so hard. Ghana were starting to break them down. Beckerman was good, mind. Aye, they rode their luck at times but ultimately they're a team with no pace and little quality aside from that either, so not sure how else they were going to set up, especially against a team who just wanted to counter. This Portugal game should be very tasty now as it's actually a very similar sort of match-up, albeit with a world class player plus his significantly better than Ghanaian mates around him... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 As much as people love to hate Jozy, his loss is huge. No one else in the squad is capable of holding the ball up and stretching the defense like he is. And for as poor as he played for Sunderland, it's night and day when he puts on the U.S. kit. Ghana completely took over the game when he went off. That's because his replacement was that thin, finnish nerd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 That scando fella is a good striker, he just isnt a jozy style fatboy. But no-one else in the squad is either, so they need to get Jóhannsson up and Aronning Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 As much as people love to hate Jozy, his loss is huge. No one else in the squad is capable of holding the ball up and stretching the defense like he is. And for as poor as he played for Sunderland, it's night and day when he puts on the U.S. kit. Ghana completely took over the game when he went off. That's because his replacement was that thin, finnish nerd. Well, yeah. Johannsson's a decent player, but he's no target forward. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miercoles Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 It's got to be Wondo next time... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 hope youre fucking kidding Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Didn't realise Portugal were without Rui Patricio and Fabio Coentrao as well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 It's got to be Wondo next time... Wouldn't be surprised. There's recent precedent, with Wondo having played up top with Dempsey in the 2-2 friendly against Mexico. Would rely on Bradley playing at his best at the top of the diamond, as he did in that game. I could also see Johannsson playing just off Dempsey, or even Mix getting a start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Didn't realise Portugal were without Rui Patricio and Fabio Coentrao as well Rocky.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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