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BrickHorn

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  1. Watching the highlights now. How have we not found a competent left back in the last four years? Dunn is such a liability. No idea what the fuck she was thinking in the 16th minute, jogging 3-5 yards behind her mark and well in front of her defensive line. We’re so lucky Portugal can’t finish.
  2. The USWNT is a victim of its own success. The program has been dominant since the 1990s, largely because the US had by far the largest player pool to draw from. That meant our 11 was bigger, faster, and more skilled than any other 11. We didn’t have to be smart. We didn’t have to strategize. Tactics were secondary, because we could and did win on pure athletic talent alone. And in soccer, a direct team will typically win when they have a significant athletic and skill advantage. It’s dumb soccer, but it can work when you’re just so much bigger, faster, and more skilled. But the world has caught up. Our athletic advantage has slimmed and this WC is making it painfully clear that our skill advantage is loooong gone. So teams with lesser athletes but smarter tactics and more emphasis on possession-oriented skills are outplaying the once-untouchable USWNT. It is time to adjust. We need to teach and develop players for a smarter brand of soccer. Just throwing our best athletes out there and telling them to boot the ball downfield or win one-v-one battles isn’t going to work anymore.
  3. Well that turned out to be a huge understatement. Holy shit.
  4. I meant in past years.
  5. The USWNT is not elite in terms of possession skills (ball control, passing accuracy, speed of play). We have dominated based on athletic superiority and a direct style of play that emphasized size and speed. Not sure that will be enough from now on, with other nations developing good enough athletes in more sophisticated systems that can neutralize athletic advantages.
  6. I can’t keep up with what’s newsworthy anymore. This week, it’s a big deal that authorities found non-human remains. But in the past, people would get all worked up whenever authorities found human remains. Wtf? Make up your minds.
  7. Nah that’s a great song. But the word “sanitarium” doesn’t mean what Metallica thinks it means (and it’s actually a misspelling).
  8. Y’all are fucking sell outs. Metallica peaked with Kill ‘Em All.
  9. Weak ass foul call.
  10. But only because of our athleticism. Our team is tactically unintelligent. And we’re not more skilled than the Dutch.
  11. We still have better athletes and that’s showing as the game wears on.
  12. That was a fucking dumbass foul by Lavelle.
  13. The Dutch are good enough to play keep-away for long stretches and then defend the occasional counter. We are not built to defeat a more skilled, possession-oriented team with good athletes.
  14. We play a style that allowed us to dominate when our athletes were far superior to the rest of the world. European teams play a more possession oriented game and, as the skill and athleticism of their player pools improves, our style will be a real weakness.
  15. Just saw a clip. His right eye drifted way off center during the episode.
  16. Could be a crackhead that got hold of the wrong stuff.
  17. How do you say “undefeated” in Ukrainian?
  18. Zambia is a tomato can, but Spain looks fucking lethal. They were among the best teams in Euros last summer and merely lacked that killer instinct in the final third. (Which is why England beat them after getting dominated for 80+ minutes). But they’ve been ruthless snipers so far this tournament. Japan should be a good test for them.
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    Assuming you’re in Texas, I don’t understand taking the risk to bring home marijuana edibles, which can result in a felony charge, when hemp-derived Delta 9 edibles are freely available here. Is there a noticeable difference in psychotropic effects between marijuana-derived and hemp-derived edibles?
  20. DAMN YOU, SKELETREX!!!
  21. My view is the prequel trilogy should never have been done. A hazy past is a powerful narrative element. It mirrors our own experience in life, coming of age and hearing war stories about the youthful exploits of what are now seemingly responsible, mild-mannered adults (parents, teachers, professional mentors). The war story is most effective when limited to recollected glimpses in a kind of revisionist highlight reel. The lack of detail lends an air of mystery and intrigue to the story. There’s some freedom for the audience to fill in the details on their own, to imagine what it must have been like and to fill in the gaps with their own speculation. Going back and spoon-feeding us all the details inherently diminishes the war story, even if the prequel is well executed. And the Star Wars prequels were not well executed. But the fucking nerds won out and Lucas gave them what they demanded: a detailed view into what turned out to be a pretty banal past fictional reality.
  22. Fuck. Yes. I fucking love me some thrilling tales of fabricated bureaucratic trade disputes that for some reason lead to the mass slaughter of robots and nondescript clones who we don’t know or give a shit about, with a B plot focusing on a weird forbidden romance that leads the Galaxy’s Greatest Villain to make stupid, rash decisions because he’s an emo crybaby. Also… virgin birth!
  23. Yep. My kids are coming up on college decisions in the next few years, and neither has any interest in staying in Texas. We hear the same from other parents and it’s not unusual to hear “As soon as the kids are out of high school, we’re leaving the state” or even “We’re telling the kids go out of state for school because we’re leaving Texas.” It doesn’t help that there’s only one high end public university in Texas, and it uses a singular inane metric to determine admissions. That pushes a lot of great students out of state. But mostly it’s because smart people see where the state is heading and want no part of it.
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