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I'll be holding the 9.

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VolatileLyle

The wind held down the smoke and ruined our tifo.

But so much fun last night.

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"Isn't it just like BirdBot 6000 [the deity of the Beltran's bizarre cult] to send us to a team called the 'Cardinals?'" -Jessica Beltran
VolatileLyle

This article is interesting. Global football is such a clusterexpletive.

"England gave the world football. It gave the best legacy anyone could give. We gave them the game," said Richards. ...."We started the game and wrote the rules and took it the world. The Chinese may say they own it but the British own it and we gave it to the rest of the world."

That just seems perverse. They own soccer? Gave the world soccer just like they gave as much of the world as possible the Queen? Soccer was sort of a daisy growing through concrete.

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VolatileLyle

They invented the modern game and it spread through imperialism and international commerce. A bunch of cultures claim they invented it because they have sports where people kick [expletive], but the modern rules and style is a British invention. China claiming ownership is akin to if Mexico claimed to invent basketball because the Aztecs played a game that involved throwing a ball through a hoop.

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"If it was anyone but Carp, I would have said, 'No,'" Matheny said. "Anyone but Carp."

I'm not sure it's fair to say that soccer spread through imperialism. If you look at former British colonies the majority of them are not big soccer-playing nations. Now Cricket, on the other hand, definitely spread through imperialism.

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Horror's Not Dead.com

I'm reading about the birth of soccer as the foreground of 'Inverting the Pyramid' it seems pretty apparent that England or arguably Scotland invented the game as we know it. But the spread of the game outside of Europe as Wilson writes it isn't a story you'd really want to beat your chest about. And to say England 'owns' it doesn't strike me very gracefully.

Anyway, in a few years China will have invented it for certain.

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VolatileLyle

Age 24, Leonel Messi just became Barcelona's all-time leading scorer with 234 career goals.

Fyi, that's essentially like if Albert had set the Cardinals (great player, proud franchise with long history) all-time home run record at age 26 or so.

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"If it was anyone but Carp, I would have said, 'No,'" Matheny said. "Anyone but Carp."

He just scored again, tying his own team record (tied also with the OG Ronaldo) for goals in a season with 34. He's got a guaranteed 13 games left (more assuming they continue to advance in the Champions League). League record is 40 (C. Ronaldo).

This dude...

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"If it was anyone but Carp, I would have said, 'No,'" Matheny said. "Anyone but Carp."

FSC has the worst HD feed ever. Actually, all Fox channels are pretty soft.

So USA didn't qualify for the Olympics. That sucks.

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