I am Defecting
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It's different following a team that plays abroad, than following a local team. Playing soccer, growing up in the 80's, near Buffalo, we didn't have the best coaching, the fields were comparatively dire, and there were no professional teams, and there wasn't YouTube, so when games started being broadcast on the big satellite dishes, particularly the Prem, and Serie A, leading up to WC '94, it was magical.
Then came WC '94. I taped as many games as I could from that tournament, and it really shaped me as a fan. To me, at 14, it was a tournament of so many new faces. There was Branco and Romario. There was Koeman and Bergkamp. There was Beresi and Baggio. Valderama, Stoichkov, and Tony Meola.
That's why, as a soccer fan, I feel I can switch my allegiances at will. I came out of that tournament following Bergkamp at Arsenal. By the time he retired, Ronaldo was on the rise at Manchester United. I've stuck with ManU, too long perhaps, because I'm tired of seeing Giggs and Scholes every other week. It might be time for a new team, but so long, long a time as a fan, has jaded my feelings about other teams. Rooney and Van Persie together has been sickly sweet, though. I've also loved the way that Anderson and Cleverly play midfield. United's always had such an embarrassment of riches, that it's been fun to watch them play, mostly.
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Arsenal's best player, Robin Van Persie is signing for Manchester United pending a medical. The whole shebang has probably already taken place. As a former Arsenal supporter, I can tell you that he is not quite Bergkamp, but he'll do a lot to fill the void that Ronnie left at Man Utd.
United's midfield is unsettled atm. Scholes will be 38? Giggs will be 39? Cleverly and Anderson may be in need of seasoning till they are considered proven. Kagawa may prove the ying to Carrick's yang. But there are many questions and few answers after last years big-time defeats.
Arsenal are in total rebuild, but Manchester City and Chelsea are posers no longer. Liverpool are stuck in perma-lurk, with Tottenham, and maybe Newcastle once more. Interesting times ahead.
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Yeah, it's conveniently missing from that artist rendering...
The artist's rendering could have been taken from the west shoulder of the Skyway, for those who know?
From recent memory, the rendering is accurate, driving into the city from the south.
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Excuse my posts...I ran out of beer...moved onto some Clamato...now am on a bottle of merlot.
Excellent selections, good sir. May I suggest the Bumblebee tuna as an appetizer?
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Keepin' it real with some Pork Shoulder Butt Steaks, and Old Vienna. Beats the pants off of all that tofu crap that I usually eat.
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Outlaw country:
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Got hired through a temp agency. Took me all night to fill out the online paperwork, because it was ONLY compatible with Internet Explorer. Not my Mac, not even Mozilla, though they let me to believe that it would be, and they NEEDED it within 24 hours. So after downloading a ton of useless ######, plugins, browsers, and ######, on the Mac, I had to fire up the old Compaq Dinosaur to fill out the 10 year employment history, exact dates, addresses, phone numbers, supervisors names, having to Google like a mother, and then ERROR, lost everything. I finished the damn thing at 8:30 am, 4 hours to spare, 8 hours work. No pay.
They made me take a drug test too. Result came back Negative, yes. Negative dillute (NO!) :wallbash: I would have had to re-take, but just then, my dream job called. They hired me to start immediately. ###### you Adecco.
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Van Winkle. Rip?
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Shiznit. As long as Prokofiev is on the table. Montague v. Capulet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sJE0kI6loU
Battle on the Ice is better, though. Shoutout to the greatest living conductor Valery Gergiev.
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Absolutely Prokofiev's "Battle on the Ice"
Nevsky is a film by Eisenstein, and the soundtrack was by Prokofiev. It's Classic cinema, like Citizen Kane. This was Stalin's heyday, though, so imagine him over the shoulder of both the director and composer... and they came up with amazingly subversive things. Both were too popular to kill, at the time.
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Since I see the more physical dman run him over like he is Roy at times. I got no problem with his physical play. But when he is getting checked he either doesn't have the balance to maintain thru it or he has no clue how to take a check.
Sure he gets beat on the check sometimes, but so does Leino. I think checking is one of Tropps strengths. There aren't many on the team who can check better.
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Every time I think of the Aud Club... :(
I simply love you, more than I love...
Life itself... (doo whop, doo whop, doo whop)
And I guess that's why they call it the Blues.
Time on my hands, could be time spent with you.
Laughing like children.
Living like lovers.
Rolling like thunder...
And I guess that's why they call it the Blues. :(
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Paille was better than Kassian?
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Has the Russian market dried up?
It may be Dry, but there's also Ky. But don't you also have olive oil?
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I was thinking of Tropp. Some other brother from a gentle mother distracted me, inadvertently. No. I was thinking of Paetch. Damn it, wasn't Paille a defenseman at some time!
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You are dissing him by comparing him to Paille. I've never seen Paille try to turn a defenseman inside out. The thought of Paille trying to turn a defenseman inside out is depressing.
Tropp can muscle a player off the puck, and he can pass, and shoot, and fight better than a 7th defenseman turned forward.
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Tropp's not playing as a top 6 right now, to be fair. You can see why Lindy is hesitant to label a "first" line, though, because I wouldn't call Vanek a "non top 6" player.
If we were willing to call Kassian a top 6 player, then why not Tropp?
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I appreciate your use of the word "hope," because that's all it is. We had Drury for longer than the Rangers did, so we had more time to incorporate his power of leadership.
Did you f'in see Ennis go after that dude that touched him with a stick? That's "Drury."
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Pommer has had a very good year. The team he is captaining has had a very poor year. They have earned a chance at redemption, but they haven't done anything yet with that chance. Let's see if they do so before we start comparing him with Drury, who was an absolute rock.
I'll be comparing him to Drury. Granted he has a Cup to live up to. From what I've seen lately, Pominville has it in him, and Hodgson can be his first mate.
Drury's accomplishments with the Sabres will be surpassed, by Pominville, I think.
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I think you'll find that comparing Pominville to Drury as a captain is not a joke. I don't do stats, but maybe I should, in reference to Hodgson, of course.
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Hodgson, Ennis, and Pominville are the captains of their respective lines.
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The link, by the way, is to Niagara Cycle Works. They do a lot of mail order business, but if you're not too far from them, you can pick it up yourself and save the shipping costs.
But, even the employees at NCW will admit, that the money is better spent at Campus Wheel Works, on Elmwood, where they know bicycle parts, or Ricks on Allen, who are Raleigh fiends. You younger men and women are also more likely to meet hot ladies at either Buffalo store, than you are through mail order companies.
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Real men self-propel. This is why bicycles are AWESOME. My collection:
'91 Bianchi Broadway. Red. $25 paid for frame. Alfine 8spd rear hub. Alfine generator front hub. Both hand built wheels. SKS fenders. Winter Beater
'05 Bianchi Volpe. Green. 28spd. Schmidt dynamo. CR18 rims, and double butted spokes, on hand-built wheels. Front and rear racks. Touring Bike
79' Custom Sutter. Red-white-and blue. Reynolds 531. Handmade in France. $65 at garage sale. Hand-built tubular wheels on Wolber Aspen rims ($2 ea. at Amvets)
I've got a three bike personal limit, but also have a wife:
'69 Raleigh Competition, purple, paid $100, w/ tubular wheels
'66 Raleigh Superbe, green, paid $25 w/ Brooks Saddle
'89 Bridgestone CB-1, black, paid $35
Steel-frame lugged bikes are awesome, but the age of being able to find them for next to nothing is OVER, in my experience.
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Did you really believe that Pommers would be a better captain than Drury?
Soccer (Football) ~ Everything About The Beautiful Game
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Regarding whom I followed, as a soccer player myself, I always felt that I wanted to expose my eyes to the very best, because fine Soccer was so rare in my country (USA).
My feelings were that the US team were the excrement at the foot of Soccer Mountain. The were hoof and chase neanderthals in a Game that was supposed to be Beautiful. It didn't take a mathematician to figure that I had better watch the better players from elsewhere.
Alas, wanting to be good must be sustained and fostered and even nurtured, alas.