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I was simply taking issue with him questioning whatsoever that Eichel is ready for the next level.

Great post :) Disagree on the bolded. My untouchables are the 4 you mention. That's why I don't think a ROR to BUF deal gets done.

Yeeeeesh. That's some amateur stuff.

So they just talk about the weather and the women's world cup or whatever, right?

I count 14 pairs of back to backs.

Hahahaha listen to those sour grapes.

That list is very style/ceiling based for the prospects rather than finding players that they are likely to compare to. I hope that McDavid is better than Crosby and Eichel is better than Getz, though.

His calves are really bionic purses designed to hold a nearly infinite number of massive condoms for his magnum d0ng.

Wasn't around last Thursday. Sorry, Bio. Sounds like your dad will hang in there. And Kev, sorry about your friend man :( Thanks for the words of wisdom.

2007 called to tell you that they already know.

Good call on the physical assault. I'll make sure to blow her up in the endzone next time.

Cute girl at frisbee. I saw her, then talked to her. that's it

Bricks of benjamins get such crappy reception.

Morgan hasn't been her dangerous self. Still recovering from the ankle injury, it seems.

I agree. It feels like they know they'll outlast most teams so they make that their game plan. I feel a little bit better about our chances after watching the Columbia game. I never felt in danger of being scored on once. Our back line (along with Hope freakin' Solo) is the best I've seen from any team in the tournament. I also noticed more emphasis being put on trying to create offense through Rapinoe. Instead of her usual runs up the sideline she's been turning inside earlier and looking for her teammates between the 18 and the penalty spot. A few dangerous balls went across that resulted in scoring chances, so hopefully they can start nailing those. Love all the talk about playing soccer. Soccer was my first love, which I fell out of when I was around 13-14 and every coach wanted to play kickball (kick deep balls and win races) instead of possession. qwksnd soccer life timeline: Age 4: Started playing organized soccer. Couldn't understand why other kids couldn't just naturally dribble and control the ball. Loved playing offense. Age 6: Realized that I should pass to the open player no matter how much I think they suck at soccer. Age 8: Started playing travel soccer. I was the best player on my team, and led in scoring from the sweeper position. Age 10: Switched to playing center midfield and became more of a distributor. Other kids' fitness started to catch up with me. Age 12: Switched to playing outside midfield. I'm still a quality possession player at this point, but other kids are starting to get bigger and faster than me with harder shots. Age 14: Got cut by my travel coach in favor of younger players with better physical tools without any of the soccer savvy I possessed in between my ears. Several players from the team (my friends, to be fair) said that many of the new kids were terrible. Age 15: Stopped playing school soccer to be in marching band. The soccer coaches at my high school were all about kickball. Started playing hockey, frisbee and tennis instead. Age 17: Growth spurt from 5'8" (which I had been for 3 years) to 6'1" Age 18-19: Speed and coordination slowly returned to my lanky awkward body. Age 20: Started playing organized soccer again. Played mostly defense since my strengths were reading the play, speed, and size. I've still got decent touch, so I'm planning on playing a lot more midfield this year. I've had a blast finally returning to the sport that dominated my childhood. If you asked 6 year old me what I wanted to do, the answer would've been "play soccer for the USMNT." I thought the same thing about the refs. Either they hated us, or were allowing themselves to be played like fiddles by the Colombian girls. Dive after dive after dive all called as penalties against us. And it makes you pause for thought when the only 2 yellow cards given out were to the players that needed them to miss the next game. Wambach should try to be way more captain-y to the media. I wish her off-field persona matched her toughness on the field. She should still be playing between 45 and 60 minutes every game. I never ended up mentioning: The USA-COL game was brutal to watch. No flow, penalties every other minute, not very many scoring chances. yuck

You guys wonder why Boyes and I both had short hiatuses at similar times? (Love you, darling)

0 But after the word "Eichel" he's going to screech like a victorious ape. Just 1 quick casual screech barely half a second long, then back to Murray FaceTM

There's no reason for the World Cup to be played on turf, but whining about it is even lamer. We don't look hungry enough to win this tourney. I'm not even sure we're hungry enough to make a deep run. Maybe it's just experience, and they'll bring it when the tournament ramps up, but that's a dangerous game to play.

Ah yes, the scene where after the rapists were gone, Ghost just disappeared out of the room so they didn't have to animate him anymore. All I could think was: Why isn't Ghost with Jon? Now that he's back at the wall it really needs answering. Why isn't Ghost with Jon? WHERE IS GHOST? That really bothered me. Varys really has no personal motivation or arc. He is Tyrion's buddy. That's his entire character.

Well... So much for that. Wouldn't it be nice if they hinted at it even a little bit in the show? Speaking of which, where is Ghost?

Alliser Thorne was the coolest during the battle for the wall when he put aside his little quarrel with Jon for the greater good. Jon showed respect to him by making him first ranger. Instead of giving Jon good counsel or doing... anything, Alliser continued to be the same shallow doosh he always was. I don't know how you can say it's totally illogical and out of character for Alliser to not be the worst guy in the world. GRRM is great at letting the reader perceive characters a certain way, and then revealing more depth that is often contrary to what it seemed like on the surface. If you need an example of this, how about the first character who dies in the story, Waymar Royce? He appears to be a vain teenage douche, but he's actually a hardcore badass willing to sword fight with a white walker. There was no in episode build up or in season build up for this moment. Jon Snow sacrificing Night's Watch lives to save wildlings at Hardhome was apparently enough for another Nights Watch Mutiny.TM This makes no sense. If anything, having black brothers at Hardhome to see the true menace of the White Walkers should help Jon's standing with the Watch. Those men would've spread tales of the most epic incredible thing that happened to their brothers. It felt rushed. Yet another plot point that was slowly and deliberately built towards in the book that they pulled out of nowhere in the show. The biggest problem with the show is the lack of hope. Stark supporters in the North? Cut. Repercussions for the Bolton involvement in the Red Wedding? Cut. (Actually the Boltons in general have impervious plot armor) The North Remembers? Hah. Lady Stoneheart? Cut. Nymeria's Wolfpack? Who knows. Just character death after character death without any weight or storytelling payoff. The Red Wedding was very well done, except for all the screen time Robb and Talisa got in season three to build up the shock value. The mutiny felt like a personal attack, not members of the watch who were pushed into it. Just weaksauce.

I love me some Tyler Ennis. Plays the game the right way, is fast, tough, and slippery. I expect him to be around a 50-60 point player.

(all spoiler tags in this post are for the season finale of season 5) Eh. Underwhelming. Character deaths aren't good drama in and of themselves, as the showrunners seem to think. Cersei's scene was pretty heart wrenching and probably twice as long as it should've been. In Meereen, everybody started talking in exposition voice. It was like they were all trying to audition for narrator in the middle of the episode.

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