Alright, time for the mega post. There has been a lot of stuff going on, World Cup, MLB hitting the half way point (plus my domination of fantasy baseball), Pirates of the Carribbean 2, Borat Movie, hot chocolate and huge northerns, terrorist pussies, Zizou headers and much much more.
I'll try and touch on a few things here, first up World Cup. Now I know Teeblahggers are relatively solid on the soccer appreciation tip, but I have to say this WC was tremendous and this guy may be the world's biggest idiot. Not often am I embarrassed to be a Minnesotan but this was definitely once. Here is some reaction. Apparently he still has his job.
Anyways, as I am sure you know by now the Italians have taken the cup despite being seriously outplayed for much of the final. It is too bad this game had to go to PK's but after running around for 120 minutes you have to do something. This totally played against the French however, as there their top penalty takers were off by the time it happened, Thierry Henry striker extraordinare gets cramped up and French captain/national hero/demi-god Zinedane Zidane gets a red card in the 110th minute for a sweet headbutt/spearing of Italian defenseman Marco Materazzi. Here's an alternate theory on what happened from the Daily show. I'm sure you can find a shitload more about the whole deal with not a lot of trouble so I'll leave it at that and get to the goals.
Here are some top goals from the first half of the tournament. Here are some more great goal clips from youtube, choose your own genre! CLUBMIX 50Cent! Eye of the Tiger! Shakira! (not just goals on this clip) Here is a cool one of sweet goals from previous WC's. And finally my personal Top 6, you've seen these in the other mixes but oh well.
6. Philip Lahm is a defenseman for christ's sake.
5. Argentina plays with the opposititon for a minute (24 PASSES) before Cambiasso's Finish.
4. Tomas Rosicky shits on USA's hopes early in the tourney.
3. Torsten Frings blazes a shot that is just stupid.
2. Maxi Rodriguez hits the game winner in the second round against Mexico.
1. England's Joe Cole is out of control.
On to baseball! The Twins seem to have some life in them thanks to Francisco Liriano, 10-1 1.83 ERA 102 k's and .97 WHIP, Justin Morneau .300 BA 23 HR 73 RBI .939 OPS and, Joe Mauer .378 BA 7 HR 45 RBI .981 OPS. They enter the break 9 games out of the wild card despite dropping 2 of 3 to the Royals and Rangers. That shit has to stop. Sure winning every game is a little much to ask but we need to take the series' against lower standing teams. If we drop another series to the Royals or the Mariners we will not make the playoffs. What's left of July is critical I'd say we have to win 12 of the 18 games left to be healthy come August. The final two months of the season will be great. If the Twins can get through it and into the playoffs, there is no reason they couldn't win the World Series.
Speaking of the golden boy, I'm not sure if I have this right but if Joe Mauer wins the batting title this year, can you imagine the tail he would get if this is what he is rolling with now? Side note, Is there anyway to look at a myspace page without having a brain aneurysm? Seriously 95% of the pages are downright impossible to look at, pictures every where, oversized and overlapping, background colors all fucked, unreadable text, sparkley moving GIFs and comments with no regards to anything stretching the bottom of the page for miles and top it all of with some shitty song.
I starting to get tired of this post and Blogger is scheduling an outage in a half hour so I'll cut the rest short.
Pirates 2 sucks. This movie is awful. This movie is worse than the LOTR. After watching this movie I challenge you to name a more worthless, completely transparent, obnoxious, money hungry ploy ever. And naturally it shatters all the box office records. Can't wait to see Pirates 3! PLEASE WATCH THIS INSTEAD.
Yeah. I'm definitely done for now.
I'll try and touch on a few things here, first up World Cup. Now I know Teeblahggers are relatively solid on the soccer appreciation tip, but I have to say this WC was tremendous and this guy may be the world's biggest idiot. Not often am I embarrassed to be a Minnesotan but this was definitely once. Here is some reaction. Apparently he still has his job.
Anyways, as I am sure you know by now the Italians have taken the cup despite being seriously outplayed for much of the final. It is too bad this game had to go to PK's but after running around for 120 minutes you have to do something. This totally played against the French however, as there their top penalty takers were off by the time it happened, Thierry Henry striker extraordinare gets cramped up and French captain/national hero/demi-god Zinedane Zidane gets a red card in the 110th minute for a sweet headbutt/spearing of Italian defenseman Marco Materazzi. Here's an alternate theory on what happened from the Daily show. I'm sure you can find a shitload more about the whole deal with not a lot of trouble so I'll leave it at that and get to the goals.
Here are some top goals from the first half of the tournament. Here are some more great goal clips from youtube, choose your own genre! CLUBMIX 50Cent! Eye of the Tiger! Shakira! (not just goals on this clip) Here is a cool one of sweet goals from previous WC's. And finally my personal Top 6, you've seen these in the other mixes but oh well.
6. Philip Lahm is a defenseman for christ's sake.
5. Argentina plays with the opposititon for a minute (24 PASSES) before Cambiasso's Finish.
4. Tomas Rosicky shits on USA's hopes early in the tourney.
3. Torsten Frings blazes a shot that is just stupid.
2. Maxi Rodriguez hits the game winner in the second round against Mexico.
1. England's Joe Cole is out of control.
On to baseball! The Twins seem to have some life in them thanks to Francisco Liriano, 10-1 1.83 ERA 102 k's and .97 WHIP, Justin Morneau .300 BA 23 HR 73 RBI .939 OPS and, Joe Mauer .378 BA 7 HR 45 RBI .981 OPS. They enter the break 9 games out of the wild card despite dropping 2 of 3 to the Royals and Rangers. That shit has to stop. Sure winning every game is a little much to ask but we need to take the series' against lower standing teams. If we drop another series to the Royals or the Mariners we will not make the playoffs. What's left of July is critical I'd say we have to win 12 of the 18 games left to be healthy come August. The final two months of the season will be great. If the Twins can get through it and into the playoffs, there is no reason they couldn't win the World Series.
Speaking of the golden boy, I'm not sure if I have this right but if Joe Mauer wins the batting title this year, can you imagine the tail he would get if this is what he is rolling with now? Side note, Is there anyway to look at a myspace page without having a brain aneurysm? Seriously 95% of the pages are downright impossible to look at, pictures every where, oversized and overlapping, background colors all fucked, unreadable text, sparkley moving GIFs and comments with no regards to anything stretching the bottom of the page for miles and top it all of with some shitty song.
I starting to get tired of this post and Blogger is scheduling an outage in a half hour so I'll cut the rest short.
Pirates 2 sucks. This movie is awful. This movie is worse than the LOTR. After watching this movie I challenge you to name a more worthless, completely transparent, obnoxious, money hungry ploy ever. And naturally it shatters all the box office records. Can't wait to see Pirates 3! PLEASE WATCH THIS INSTEAD.
Yeah. I'm definitely done for now.
posted by teeblah at 2:23 PM
3 Comments:
First... your link to the Joe Cole goal is the same link to the Maxi-Pad goal. As for the Cup, I believe the Italians are trying to halt the progress of the game and send it back to the late 80's/early 90's, when everyone was scared to lose and thus put 10 men behind the ball and proceeded to flop around on the ground and scream bloody murder the second anyone got near them. Nobody liked soccer in the late 80's/early 90's, everyone was watching tennis. The Portugese played the same way, only with a bit more flair from Figo, Simao and the little crying bitch CRonaldo. I really hope he leaves Manchester, he's making it hard for me to root for them anymore.
Germany were a pleasant surprise, swashbuckling cocksmen that were playing to win. England and Spain still can't put it together. Brazil is vastly overrated. Zidane's mother "wants Materazzi's balls on a platter." (Google that for more info). Oh, and there's a game at break.com where you can run around and headbutt dudes with Zidane. Awesome.
I agree with your myspace comment. How do any of those people think that "their space" looks good?
The Twins are still out of it, although I like the direction we're going. We still need to sucker someone into trading for Shannon Stewart, who forgot how to play the outfield and refuses to DH regularly, and Torii Hunter, who is not worth $12 million (we're due to pay him next season) and never will be, and then we can focus on kicking ass in 2 or 3 years. I'm willing to wait.
I never saw the first Pirate movie, and will not see the second. I still think that it's weird that it broke the weekend record. I mean, everyone knows it's not groundbreaking or anything. I blame kids. Kids rule the world these days. I may have to elaborate on that in the near future.
I think that this hype with Zidane will blow over. What if at the very end of Jordan's career (Chicago, that is, forget the Wizards) and it's the last minutes of game 6 of the 98 NBA finals. Jordan, on his way to go out in a blaze of glory, 3-peat, MVP, all that, before he hits the jumper at the end to win it-- Jordan bitch slaps someone from Utah, the benches clear, Jordan gets a technical and gets kicked out of the game. Jordan's replaced, Utah holds on to their lead, win it. There's a big media frenzy around Jordan's actions, everyone's shocked, and though we all assume he must have been seriously antagonized to have reacted in such a way, nobody excuses the action itself.
Well that would have blown over. It would have just lended more to the Jordan mystique.
Zidane's been known to pull this sort of shit now and again. He already couldn't play against Togo in this World cup, and he's received plenty of red cards throughout his career. At least his head butt was in a way characteristic of his personality. A Jordan bitch slap would be totally out of the ordinary, it wouldn't make anysense whatsoever, but still we would look back and think, he's still the greatest. I think the same will be the case for Zidane. It only lends the man more notoreity, EVERYONE knows him now, and if they only know him because he was the french dude that headbutted a guy, they would soon learn how good he was, adding even more to the mystique of this guy.
I fixed the link for the Joe Cole goal. Thanks theb.
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