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north fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 24, 2014 - 11:05am PT
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I think you are calling the wrong guy Dracula. Suarez is gunna have to start playing with a Hannibal Lecter mask. Wtf is he thinking?
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Jun 24, 2014 - 12:05pm PT
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All divers should be given red cards and publcally spanked for behavior unbefitting a man. Funny thing is, you rarely see such theatrical diving in the woman's game.
JL
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jun 24, 2014 - 12:13pm PT
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I'm not a big Football fan, but, let's go Colombia!
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Festus
Social climber
Enron by the Sea
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Jun 24, 2014 - 12:35pm PT
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TradEddie,
You see it exactly as it is, wish I could clone you! It's amazing how hard it is to convince other parents to simply do the math. Their local high school will carry maybe 16 kids on varsity, and how many of that number each year will get a college scholarship? A few at best. Now divide that number into the number of kids playing on club/travel teams who feed into said high school. It's easily in the hundreds for every grade level where I live. And $2K a year for a decade isn't even going to get your kid on his high school team unless he or she is a damn good athlete. And if the kid is a great athlete he'll make that high school team in every sport he falls in love with and hungers to excel at. $2K a year for a decade can't buy that love and hunger, nor can declining to participate in the $2K a year scam prevent him from making his high school team if he's got that love and hunger.
You're also absolutely right that kids will play any sport for the love of it if they're attracted to it, and no doubt money plays a huge role in that attraction if only (for kids) in the amount of press and ESPN highlights the best paid athletes get. Since this World Cup seems to be the most watched yet by kids, by far from what I see in my community, maybe we start seeing a few more of our best athletes take up futbol.
I only know that it won't happen until you start seeing more pick-up games in far more places than you do now.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 24, 2014 - 04:50pm PT
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I love how Suarez holds his teeth like he was fouled. His Cup has got to be over and with that his teams will be too. I have always been a Suarez fan, but nobody likes a biter. It's so weird, it's almost comical.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 24, 2014 - 05:04pm PT
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How do you suppose he got that overbite? Or did I put the cart before the jackass?
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Jun 24, 2014 - 05:07pm PT
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apparently it is not his first bite (he has two priors)
the weapons are there to use
the solution
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Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
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Jun 24, 2014 - 05:08pm PT
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How do you suppose he got that overbite?
By biting people in the English Premiership. I think he was banned for 10 games the last time he did this.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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Jun 24, 2014 - 05:51pm PT
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He bit someone when he played in Holland too. They called him the Cannibal of Ajax. Really weird.
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Gal
Trad climber
going big air to fakie
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Jun 24, 2014 - 08:31pm PT
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Hey Brandon, I'm with ya, Go COLOMBIA!!!!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 25, 2014 - 10:22am PT
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Go Bosnia and Nigeria!
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2014 - 10:29am PT
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Haha, that's awesome TT. Those odds will be going down though.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 25, 2014 - 10:43am PT
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I was going to say that but for a couple of glaring exceptions, Dzeko's
against Nigeria being the most egregious, the linesmen have been rather
decent but then Iran just scored when 4 or 5 guys were wildly offside! WTF?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 25, 2014 - 12:58pm PT
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Allons enfants de la patrie!!!!!!!!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jun 25, 2014 - 03:45pm PT
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A great job by Ecuador, down a man, holding France to 0-0!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jun 26, 2014 - 08:25am PT
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There is justice.
Suarez banned for 9 matches, including the Cup
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 26, 2014 - 08:36am PT
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Yeah 9 international games and four months from all football activities. Guess he's not goin to Barca Steve.
I kinda feel bad, I'm a Benedict Arnold today. Go Germany!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 26, 2014 - 08:52am PT
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Alex Song gets 3 games for swiping at a guy's back and Suarez' third bite
only gets 9 games? So much for 'Fair Play'.
Glad to see Cameron out of this game.
edit:
8 minutes in and we've had the ball 20 seconds and two excellent chances? This could get ugly.
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