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  1. On 10/3/2021 at 5:44 PM, Lobo said:

    No, they have always, and will continue to marry down.  The new model suggests, and quite accurately, that it's about to start happening at large scale though.  That's the head scratcher.  Will it go from the regional anecdote to the prevailing model across the entire nation?  

    Anecdotally, the househusband/manny population has exploded in the past decade in the burbs.  There is an even larger number of men who "work" and have college degrees, but who are essentially diaper carriers/child taxi drivers.  From what I can tell, these guys have relatively stress-free lives (other than coming to grips with their wife being pounded over the desk by another partner in the firm) in no small part because the wife/mother continues to also perform an outsized share of the domestic responsibilities compared to men who are the breadwinners.  An emasculating existence without question, but it has its advantages.  

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  2. It's emblematic of playing safe by design (ggg's awful tactics) instead of putting the opposition under pressure, the slow pace of play of the MLS lifers (players who came to the US and will never get back to Europe) and a lack of confidence/skill of the MLS lifers in attacking.  These weaknesses combine in a shit stew to somehow provide Panama a goal scoring opportunity when the US should have, at the very least, had the ball in the Panama box.

    This is all on ggg because he is picking players who simply aren't good enough for international soccer and telling them to play safe instead of putting Panama under pressure.  Pussy soccer basically. 

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  3. 1 minute ago, goatsaag said:

    This is a terrible video to illustrate the points he's trying to make. As the dude says, even in the US's "slow" play, they are setting up a dangerous attacking chance with a numbers advantage. That just gets fucked by Acosta's awful touch. The whole "see, this is what you get with MLS players, they play slow" and then contrasting this play with a play with involves two MLS players playing big roles? Lol, that uh, doesn't demonstrate that point at all.

    It demonstrates that despite how pathetically slow the US players are to move the ball, they can still progress to a dangerous situation because of how poor Panama is.  If the US moved the ball with speed and precision, their advantage would have been even greater because less Panamanians would have recovered to defensive positions.  #3 and #15 on the left side are brought back into the play by Arriola hesitating and Acosta's stupid pass to Zardes (who actually does relatively well) instead of to Musah or directly to Lletget.  Lletget completely ends the play by cutting back instead of going one-on-one.  If Lletget gets past that defender, the CB has to make a tough decision whether to come to Lletget and leave Weah basically open on goal.  If you can't take on a Panama defender in that one-on-one situation, you shouldn't play for the USMNT.

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  4. Berhalter's USMNT is perfectly encapsulated by Acosta's first touch and the back pass from Lletget.  

    The US hasn't scored in the first half for 8 games running. 

    I will try to heckle Berhalter on Wednesday. 

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  5. Austin will likely always be in the running for a qualifier against the Caribbean nations and Canada.  The qualifier in 2029 against T&T should be electric.

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  6. US and Mexico have had extremely similar results so far.

    Mexico beat Jamaica at home 2-1.  US beat Jamaica at home 2-0.

    Mexico tied Canada at home 1-1.  US tied Canada at home 1-1.

    Mexico beat Costa Rica on road 2-1.  US beat Honduras on road 4-1. Costa Rica and Honduras both have 3 points through 4 games.

    Mexico tied Panama on road 1-1.  US tied El Salvador on road 0-0.  Panama and El Salvador both have 5 points through 4 games.

  7. The more Euros that leave for the US at 18 and end up living here, marrying Americans and having American kids, the better for the US Ryder Cup team.  The Ryder Cup ultimately becomes a competition between Euro immigrants to the US and US born players.  Sergio and Rahm were speaking to each other in American English during the Ryder Cup rounds. Hovland almost has an American accent.  

  8. 2 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    Well, it's Westwood and Poulter playing in what is almost certainly their last RC. They would have rather died on the course than lose, especially Poulter. That's the message they're sending to the younger generation of Euros, and why the US had better keep their shit wired tight or else they're gonna be in for a rude comeuppance in Italy in 2023.

    The younger generation of Euros better come quick because there are 8 Americans who didn't make the American Ryder team (Horschel, Reed, Simpson, Burns, Na, Kokrak, Homa and Zalatoris) who are ranked above half the Euros who made the Euro Ryder team.

  9. 36 minutes ago, Hate said:

    About what?

    Koepka and Berger berating the officials.

    JT and Berger pounding beers.

    Jordan arguing with Rahm’s caddies.

    “Classless” yank fans.

    The English are basically aggy in terms of self awareness

     

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  10. An optimist could also look at the pairings and say the first match should be a walkover for the USA, the second match could be a slugfest 2 on 1 with Rahm isolated, the third match could bury Rory if he can't best English/Finau and the fourth match provides the opportunity for JT to play himself back into form against a beatable pairing. 

  11. I assume he rested Koepka and Morikawa (fine), benched Berger (fine) and chose JT over Spieth (stupid).

    Splitting Xander and Cantlay is idiotic.  Why not just pair DJ and JT?  Also worried that Rory will get his mojo back against English/Finau.

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