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  1. Well, Billy Kennedy was on sideline for WSU. Loved the dive for the ball and the straddle on the baseline for the lead by the UH players before WSU three to tie it. Obviously WSU could have used a to after the three. I see Kennedy in the huddle in double ot and damn that guy looks familiar.
  2. dogbreath

    USMNT 2022

    Spot on https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/the-usmnt-s-pulisic-problem-lessons-learned-from-el-salvador-what-to-expect-at-c
  3. dogbreath

    USMNT 2022

    While I’m sympathetic to this argument there is no way DLT is replacing a wing. I could see with a 2-0 lead where DLT instead of Acosta replaces Musah. Don’t think the coach trusts him yet but I’m still open to see if there is evidence of pro Msl conspiracy. One of the English broadcasters mentioned early this week the he thinks that pulisic has never recovered the speed he had before the hamstring injury against arsenal in 2020. Back then he was on the verge of being a world class player. That makes sense to me because he was really good then. He’s had moments since but not consistent quality. Confidence is huge too and something is up when he couldn’t outrun that Liverpool defender on a dead heat to the ball. Going from tuchel yo-yoing him to ggg’s poor offensive strategy hasn’t helped. ggg is a bad offensive coach at the international level. No idea how he was in mls.
  4. Nightmare Alley on tcm noir night. Theres a remake so I’ll hide my comments.
  5. My question for this team is who scores when necessary in last five minutes of games. They are good enough defensively to be in games but someone needs to step up. Fortunately conference games will provide plenty of opportunities for the players. Allen is terrific as a complementary player but doesn’t shoot well enough from the outside to be the guy. Mitchell and Disu aren’t going to create from the perimeter. It’s gotta be a guard. Let’s see if someone does it.
  6. Whatever happened to the peoples elbow?
  7. Thinking there had to be somebody from Diner but fuck everyone had a great career even if it was uneven for some. Guttenburg, Reiser, Stern, Daly, Barkin, Rourke, Bacon. I’ll go with Chris Eigeman who’s was in whit stillman and Noah baumbach movies.
  8. Park Row by Sam Fuller. Fuller did it all as no studio was interested in journalism's early days. Enjoyed it and it led me to this article where the writer objected to the schmaltz and self-congratulatory AFI list at the time. I haven't seen half of what's on this guy's list, but do agree that there is some crap on the AFI list at the time (1998), list-o-mania
  9. Viva Texas Rivers is a new book coming out that features Graves and others on the topic. https://texashighways.com/culture/viva-texas-rivers-celebrates-texas-storied-waterways/
  10. My mom played the shit out of Rod Stewart doing Reason to Believe after her first divorce but I prefer the original from Tim Hardin. My dad loved booze, sports and himself. He especially liked music about booze. My divorce song was the faces losin’ you. It was the ringtone for my ex for many years. I think I’ve shared this before but she’d call every Saturday while I coached my sons soccer game to find out what the schedule was. 5 little kids on the sidelines started moving In sync when they’d hear the guitar riff and bass and the song would go on for awhile because I wouldn’t answer the phone. My daughter wanted to be more than a band geek in 7th grade and taught herself guitar. She played Folsom Prison Blues for me and I told her if she could play it and sing it then I’d sign her up for guitar lessons. A week later she did. Her guitar teacher was a 6’6 Arkansas good ole boy whose specialty was Spanish classical guitar. He was perfect. She learned so many songs but one of my faves was Malagueña. I have a version by Danny Gatton from a Josh Charles recording but it’s not on YouTube. My son got to do a dj shift in college last year and his first song was… So many powerful emotional songs out there.
  11. dogbreath

    USMNT 2021

    Adams played rwb and then rb for most of the Honduras game. He didn't move to dm until Sands went out. It was Sands and Acosta in mf of a disaster 3-4-2-1 and then there was some stability with a 4-3-3 after Brooks went out. Team didn't take off until Adams moved to dm with Yedlin subbed in to play rb.
  12. I got my Sweet 16/Elite 8 in San Antonio tickets today. I fully expect Texas to be there.
  13. So excited to see new posts on Texas basketball, so disappointed it has nothing of importance.
  14. dogbreath

    USMNT 2021

    Pepi made some nice unlocking passes, but the possessions didn't amount to anything. We weren't precise enough with runs or passes. Our three wins are against a disorganized Jamaican team and two teams on the third game in the window. One who is too old and one who made poor substitutions. We've been out coached and out played in the other games. No third game for the next window, so let's meet and beat Mexico's quality at home and hope that Jamaica still sucks.
  15. Interesting that no Febres is in the eleven mentioned.
  16. Naming a few that I didn't see on the list. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen Lyle Lovett - first album We are the Village Green Preservation Society - Kinks Del Amitri - first album Armed Forces - Elvis Costello Shoot out the Lights - Richard and Linda Thompson Old No. 1 - Guy Clark Zoolook - Jean-Michel Jarre
  17. "To create the new version of the RS 500 we convened a poll of more than 250 artists, musicians, and producers — from Angelique Kidjo to Zedd, Sam Smith to Megan Thee Stallion, M. Ward to Bill Ward — as well as figures from the music industry and leading critics and journalists. They each sent in a ranked list of their top 50 songs, and we tabulated the results." It's really a list of top 50 songs by various people that is compiled in a recency bias order. Hmm, I did an essential 100 song list for my kids. May have to revisit that list now that kids are grown and there's been enough new music to re-evaluate.
  18. dogbreath

    USMNT 2021

    Ocho thoughts. If Concacaf is going to foul Pulisic then put him at attacking mid where he can be fouled in or near the box. Why waste the fouls in the midfield. It should be clear that A.Robinson has locked down the starting left back spot. I'd tell Araujo the right back is wide open and waiting for him to commit. As much depth as there is at RB, it's either too inexperienced, too Chandleresque or too average. Araujo can win that position. From here on, use two CB's out of these three, Robinson, Richards and McKenzie. Get them experience in playing together. Use Brooks as a luxury CB and all others as depth. No more Aaranson in the midfield. McKennie looked like crap in his only game. I think that he's not in game playing shape with season just beginning. I expect him to be better as season progresses. Is he a team leader like he was in NL games or is he a goof off? Can't wait to see Musa against Concacaf. I'm ready for a forward pool of Pepi, Zardes and a healthy Dike. The aspirational talents of Seargent and Prefok are not enough. Somehow Gregg is going to fuck this up.
  19. dogbreath

    USMNT 2021

    Yueill fuckin Yueill. Hope the sister was worth it.
  20. Never knew how much I like Wyler movies. Saw Dead End and with additions of thinking highly of Best Years of Our Lives, Little Foxes, The Letter and Dodsworth. Big Country was a good band and an ok movie. There's some I resist seeing due to perceived cloyingness such as Wuthering Heights, Roman Holiday and Mrs. Miniver and a general annoyance in watching Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl. What good Wyler movies am I missing?
  21. Skatepark Los Reyes - La Ruta del Skate https://goo.gl/maps/nj5EgGad6B7AT4kq9
  22. Los Reyes - set in a Santiago, Chile skatepark, it's a documentary about two street dogs from their point of view. Good movie.
  23. dogbreath

    USMNT 2021

    Jochem Sauer, director of Bayern Munich’s youth academy: "The [soccer] education that young players get in the States is completely different now. The quality of the coaches is better. Combine this technical and tactical improvement with athletic ability, and these are the reasons some players are performing on the highest level. "The level of MLS clubs has grown extremely since, say 2010. When MLS players came to train in Germany 10 years ago, the speed of play — how fast the ball goes from player to player, how quickly you have to anticipate what to do next — was too much for them. Now we’ll get FC Dallas players here on trial, and they need only two or three training sessions to adapt." Sauer: "I think it will continue. If MLS clubs keep bringing young players of 17-18 into the first teams like [Canadian star] Alphonso Davies in Vancouver or Tyler Adams in New York, the country will have an excellent national team in the future. If things keep going the way they are, the U.S. will have a very competitive team in 2026."
  24. dogbreath

    USMNT 2021

    Good suff here. https://www.foxsports.com/stories/soccer/young-american-soccer-stars-pulisic-mckennie-adams-reyna-dest-doug-mcintyre
  25. Is it a golden generation or is it just access to players who played in a better development system? Without DA, I think players like McKennie, Adams, Richards and multiple others would have switched to HS football. Pulisic and Reyna would have been studs based on family background. The DA's sharpened players by competing against good players in a 10 month season. There would be mid season and end of season tournaments that had a huge number of college and pro scouts to watch the tournaments. The progressive MLS teams integrated their youth players in first team practices. Just looked at Tajon Buchanon's profile and it shows he played 3 years for Real Colorado while in high school. He moved from Ontario to Denver. Had no idea who he was as a youth player, but my son played that team twice a season during those three years. My son plays for a D3 school that is known as a power with national championships, but almost every game is competitive now. The coach could recruit good players in the 90's and 00's and would outclass teams with talent and coaching. That's not true anymore as the coaching has gotten better and the depth of good players has increased. DA has gone away, but MLS youth league has taken its place. Why does LigaMX want to combine leagues with MLS? Is it better access to the mexican-american player?
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