2008 Summer Olympics

[Roranora]

I know I'm a bit late on the China bashing, but seeing those god damn Chinese girls beat our clearly-above-16 girls pisses me off so badly. I really hope we end up beating them not only on the total medal count, but the gold count as well. I know we have some ground to make up; hopefully we can dominate track and field.

And while Shawn may not "fuckable" cute, Alicia most definitely is.. >.>;


Edit: Oh yeah, I'd recommend not missing the 100m Free Final tomorrow night. It may not be a Phelps Final, but I'm really hoping Sullivan will beat Bernard. And who knows, maybe Lezak has some magic left; as long as Bernard doesn't get gold, I'll take some satisfaction out the race. :D

[BarthelloSylph]

It's OK guys, I'm finally here for soccer, despite it being 5:20 AM EST.

US 0 - Nigeria 0

Let's go USA!

[BarthelloSylph]

God, what a waste to get up this early, we look shitty and will get bounced from this tourney. Can't believe we fucked the win against the Dutch.

[BarthelloSylph]

OK, cancel that - that actually looked good.

[BarthelloSylph]

God, it's tough being a fan of USA soccer.

1 - 0 Nigeria, 45th minute.

[Slapper]

Thats why im watching mens cycling right now.

[BarthelloSylph]

Didn't realize we were playing down a man.

Japan is tied with the Dutch so far - if that results stands, we advance.

But I fully expect Dutch to win and us to lose.

[Kurp]

I don't know much about soccer, so why are the US playing with only 10 people for the at least the last 50 minutes since I've started watching?

[BarthelloSylph]

Last chance for USA...

[BarthelloSylph]

We had a player ejected in the third minute - you cannot replace ejected players.

[Kurp]

We had a player ejected in the third minute - you cannot replace ejected players.

Oh damn, that's harsh. What did he do?

Also, pwnt by the crossbar.

[BarthelloSylph]

Nigeria 2, USA 1

Combined with Dutch 1-0 win over Japan, USA is eliminated from the soccer tournament.

So close...

[BarthelloSylph]

Elbow to the face of Nigerian player.

If that last header would have gone just below the crossbar, that would have been 2 goals in 2 minutes - one of the greatest comebacks in history, especially since we were down 1 player.

[yayaok]

america just lost to korea in baseball 8:7, IN YO FACE NIGGA

[Kang]

Ok with a little research it wasnt MLB players at all, it was A-AAA. None which curently are promininet or even playing in the MLB currently.


P Brett Anderson February 1, 1988 Midland RockHounds (AA)
P Jake Arrieta March 6, 1986 Frederick Keys (A)
IF Brian Barden April 2, 1981 Memphis Redbirds (AAA)
IF Matthew Brown August 8, 1982 Salt Lake Bees (AAA)
P Trevor Cahill March 1, 1988 Midland RockHounds (AA)
P Jeremy Cummings November 7, 1976 Durham Bulls (AAA)
IF Jason Donald September 4, 1984 Reading Phillies (AA)
P Brian Duensing February 22, 1983 Rochester Red Wings (AAA)
OF Dexter Fowler March 22, 1986 Tulsa Drillers (AA)
OF John Gall April 2, 1978 Albuquerque Isotopes (AAA)
IF Mike Hessman March 5, 1978 Toledo Mud Hens (AAA)
P Kevin Jepsen July 26, 1984 Salt Lake Bees (AAA)
P Brandon Knight October 1, 1975 New Orleans Zephyrs (AAA)
P Mike Koplove August 30, 1976 Las Vegas 51s (AAA)
OF Matthew LaPorta January 8, 1985 Akron Aeros (AA)
C Louis Marson June 26, 1986 Reading Phillies (AA)
P Blaine Neal April 6, 1978 Toledo Mud Hens (AAA)
IF Jayson Nix August 26, 1982 Colorado Springs Sky Sox (AAA)
OF Nate Schierholtz February 15, 1984 Fresno Grizzlies (AAA)
P Jeff Stevens September 5, 1983 Buffalo Bisons (AAA)
P Stephen Strasburg July 20, 1988 San Diego State University
C Taylor Teagarden December 21, 1983 Oklahoma RedHawks (AAA)
IF Terry Tiffee April 21, 1979 Las Vegas 51s (AAA)
P Casey Weathers June 10, 1985 Tulsa Drillers (AA)



Thats their entire roster.

Is this the Olympic roster? From your first sentence, it seems like you were trying to refute that there are MLB players in the world baseball classic judging from our earlier conversations on that subject.

Anyways, Canada just beat Holland 9-2 in softball so they are looking strong for their next game against the States.

The main host just said that a dominant reason why softball won't be at the 2012 games is because the U.S. team is so dominant in the sport. They outscored their opponents 61-1 in Athens.

To me, I think this is one of the dumbest reasons ever to ban a sport. You punish the sport because one country is so dominant? Give me a break! When the U.S. men's basketball team dominated the 1992 games, did they ban it in 1996 to save everyone's feelings so they wouldn't get slaughtered? No. The other countries stepped up their game to match the U.S. and now many countries are right up there with the States.

The domination of the Americans in softball is good for the sport because it will drive other countries to compete harder and will over time, slowly cause other countries to become more competitive.

Banning a sport because one country is too good is just beyond mind boggling. Fucking IOC.

[Kenshiin]

The new rumor out of China is that most, if not all, of the performers in the opening ceremonies were part of the military. I guess they were forced to stay there over 24 hours a few times to practice.

[Elesirdur]

So bot the Canadian mens and womens ball teams have some tough opponents coming up: Canada v. Cuba for baseball and Canada v. USA for softball. Going to be interesting to see how they hold on against these traditional powerhouse teams.

Also, Canada v. USA in women's soccer - yikes. It should be a good match no doubt, especially since there's no love lost between the Canadian and American ladies when it comes to soccer, but I honestly don't hold out much hope for our women's team against the yanks.

[sirdude]

I just wish that there was american football in the olympics because i want to see USA vs anyone.

[octopus]

I just wish that there was american football in the olympics because i want to see USA vs anyone.

Did you miss the American Football world cup?

[Acturus]

I just wish that there was american football in the olympics because i want to see USA vs anyone.

Why?

We'd just own the sport for the first 2-3 olympics, culminating in what would be called the "Dream Team", only to watch subsequent "Dream Teams" fall short of expectations due to a lack of taking the event seriously, before returning a decade and a half later as the "Redeem Team," which actually has to work a little harder than expected to match up to the nostalgic team that set the bar so high.