Seattle 2014 Day 2

Day two in Seattle centered around going to a Sounders game.  Along with Portland, the PacNW is pretty nuts about the MLS.  I guess it’s good that someone is.
Afterwards it was on to oysters happy hour followed by pie.

Men in Blazers Arsenal Preview

So far so good with a 2-1 victory over Chrystal Palace.

This is also a test of a new service that will automatically post my blog to Twitter which automatically posts to Facebook.  Yes, I am hoping to one day to manage the Social Media presence of the Piccadilly Twitz, but now I just bring the party.

Yes, My Avatar Bought the New Puma Arsenal Kit

As he prepares for another EPL season.

Arsenal: 2014 FA Cup Champions

I start watching Arsenal regularly and they go off and win the FA Cup. 

I wish I could have seen Ramsey’s match winning goal, but I forgot to pad for extra time.

Copa Oro 2013 Semifinals

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• Who knew that I would end up attending the last event at Cowboys Stadium.
• Oh, by the way, Jerry or CONCAF or whoever is responsible for this, but FUCK YOU!!!  What’s the big deal about bringing in a 70-200mm lens??  And for fucksake, at least have it on the ticket that its banned.  Do you not know how important an extra 95mm are??
• And another thing.  You’re going to have 90,000 people there for 3-4 hours and you fucking run out of food???  And really  $5 for a water??  Was it filtered through the placenta of the new royal baby?
• Other than that, a great time was had.  Go USA!!

Sport und Spiel

I hope everyone got to watch the Turkey/Czech Republic game today. Not only was it an important game in which the winner advanced to the round of 16, but it was one of the most amazing soccer games I've ever seen. And that's from someone who has seen very little soccer over his life time.

Admittedly, I didn't start watching until early in the second half, just before the Czech Republic took an insurmountable 2-nil lead. Game over. Turkey go home.

But then I got to see a string of things I've never seen in all my handfuls of games I've watched.

After cutting the lead in half, Nihat Kahveci took over. If soccer clocks behaved like hockey clocks -- that is if they were to stop after a goal and during the celebration and then start up again at the faceoff/kickoff -- he would have scored the tieing and winning goals in about 15 seconds.

Then, in extra time, the Turkish goaltender was red-carded. With all three substitutions used, a player on the field had to be the goalie. And that player was, of course, Nihat Kahveci. He didn't have to make a stop. But it's still cool.

And finally, one of Turkey's bench players was yellow-carded. I've never seen that either.

So let's all get behind Turkey, but most of all let's get behind Texas and let's get triple behind the Burnett Shale.

Go Stars!