As if on cue, my car has begun making a strange noise when it revs low. Just when I have about 1,000 miles of driving to do in a weekend. It has occurred to me that, perhaps, my religion/soccer talk offended somebody (or, Somebody). So, let this be a public apology to either Peter Bondra, Thor, or Zeus, whichever was offended ( Read more... )

Quick rant ( Read more... )

I don't know what the fuck to say about the CL final. It seems my teams are destined to have at least one very short period where they give up 3 goals per season (DC-LA last year, now this). What can you do? When Paolo Maldini scores his first European goal in 11 years...inside the first minute of the game...and then Hernan Crespo scores twice ( Read more... )

Insomnia, when it happens for the first time in awhile, doesn't make itself apparent. It sneaks up on you, while you're doing something mundane or pointless to while away the hours before you go to bed. In my case, this means playing CM and Pac-Man on ebaumsworld. Before you know it, it's a little over 2 hours before you were going to get up for ( Read more... )

WorkPast mistakes mean that we are in pretty bad money trouble. Bad enough that the shop guys are on 32 hour weeks, and the office staff on salary (read: everyone except me) may have to take pay cuts. The owner has also taken himself off the payroll for the time being. So that's been fun. We thought we were out of the woods a month ago, but now we' ( Read more... )

Well, I look like an idiot now. Good thing I put that up there ( Read more... )

Just so it's on record:

Fuck Pumas UNAM. Fuck Gerardo Galindo and his diving, fuck Ailton da Silva and his diving, and fuck Hugo Sanchez and his stupid jeans-and-sport coat ensemble.

DC 1:0 Pumas, DC wins 2-1 on aggregate.

And so, the week of the curse has apparently begun.

Sunday: Watched US-Mexico with Troy, Pat, and Pat's dad at the Front Page. It was, mostly, miserable. I can't even remember the last time we played so poorly. Mexico took what they were given (which is 2 goals on a fucking platter) but couldn't do anything with what they actually earned. Thus, ( Read more... )

I'm not sure I can sum up the game. MLS hasn't had a game like that before in the playoffs, I don't think. People have mentioned the San Jose-LA second leg last year, but that was one team mauling another one. This was end-to-end, dead even, for 120 minutes. This had 4 top class goals, a disputed penalty, a keeper making a critical error only to ( Read more... )

One more note on that rant: I'm watching the KC-LA game, and I hear Max Bretos say "watch DC United host the RED HOT New England Revolution ( Read more... )