Archive for October, 2009

The more things change the more things stay the same. Arsenal and Chelsea had an easy time of it while Liverpool stunk the joint out and lost to Fulham 3-1.

Let’s start with the obvious Arsenal took it to the Spurs 3-0. This match changed on a dime. In less than one minuted it was bam bam two quick goals and you can kiss this baby goodbye.

Robin Van Persie started off the hit parade. Persie was hanging around the right post. Bam! A great pass from teammate Bacary Sagna. Spurs keeper Gomes never had a chance.

The Spurs kicked off after the Gunners goal. This spelled doom for Tottenham. Wilson Palacios lost the ball. Actually he tripped over his own feet. Boom! Fabregas went bam in the other direction. Fabregas dodged three Spurs players. This was all she wrote. Goal. Game over.

Persie added his second goal in the 60th minute. Game, set, match. A 3-0 win for Arsenal.

Chelsea started out slow but by late in the first half the Blues took control of the match.

Drogba took it straight to the rack. Bing! Drogba was tackled by Bolton’s Samuel. This was a straight red card. Lampard nailed the PK in the 45th minute.

From this point on it was all down hill for the Wanders. Goals by Deco, Knight, and Drogba made it 4-0 for Chelsea.

 Drogba is the lynch pin upon which the Blues attack is built. Without Drogba Chelsea would lost.

The crash is hard for the Reds. After dismantling Man U Liverpool came crashing down to earth. The Reds were stunned by Bolton 3-1.

Can you say Liverpool stinks.

This loss was worse than bad.

The Reds played stupid futebol. Phillip Degen and Jamie Carragher were both given the heave hoe.

Goals by Bobby Zamora,Erik Nevland, and Clint Dempsey were all Bolton needed on this day to send Liverpool to their fifth defeat of the season.

Manchester United rebounded from their humilating 2-0 drubbling at the hands of Liverpool by soundly defeating Blackburn 2-0.

The Red Devils didn’t score until the second half.

Berbatov finally found the back of the net for the Red Devils. A great pass by Evra into the box set up the one timed shot by Berbatov in the 55th minute. Boom! Straight into the net. The Rovers keeper  Robinson never had a chance.

This was about time Berbatov.

Rooney finally got on the board in the 85th minute. Anderson fired a great pass on goal. Rooney pegged it home.

Kiss this sucker  goodbye.

Man U gets a much needed 2-0 win over Blackburn.

This was a must win for the Red Devils.

Chelsea is still in the pole position with 27 points. Manchester United is second 25 points. Arsenal is in third place with 22 points. The Gunners have a game in hand. The Spurs are fourth with 19 points. Liverpool is in fifth place with 19 points as well

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Flamengo had a chance to move up the table but Mengao stunk the joint out in a 2-0 loss to Gremio-Barueri. This was a horrible display of futebol. Sure, Petkovic didn’t play but this is not an excuse for reverting to Rubro-Negro’s old ways of getting blown out on the road.

Flamengo didn’t attack. Mengao let Barueri control the match. 

Barueri pressure finally paid off in the dying moments of the first half when Val Baiano found the open net in front of the goal in 48^th minute to give Barueri the 1-0 lead. This was really stupid defending by Mengao. Four guys jump on one cat with the ball.  This left Bruno naked one on two. Guess what dumbos. Goal. Kiss this match goodbye. And this is exactly what happened.

Barueri added the final nail in the coffin in the 69^th minute. Everton struck for gold to put Mengao out of their misery 2-0.

Flamengo wasted a huge opportunity instead the stinko bums drop down the table to sixth place. Sure Cruzeiro and Mengao each have 51 points but Raposa has 15 wins compared with Mengao’s 14.

This stinks.

Sao Paulo defeated Internacional 1-0. This snapped a three match-losing streak at Morumbi for Tricolor. Washington hit the match winner in the 47^th minute of the first half. The ball skidded through the box off the corner kick. Washington was parked near the right post. Oh, gee look what I found. An easy poke into the back of the net for Washington and this was the old ball game.

Three points for Sao Paulo.

Sao Paulo is now in first place with 55 points. Palmeiras is in second place with 54 points but Alviverde takes on Goias on Thursday. Atletico-MG is in third place with 53 points. Galo has a huge date with bottom feeder Fluminense on Thursday. Po-de-arroz is a dangerous team and they can bite you in the butt if Atletico-MG is not careful. Internacional is in fourth place with 52 points. Fifth place belongs to Cruzeiro with 51 points.

So, it is another crappy day at Dry Rock for all us Flamenguistas.

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We are now in the stretch run of the Campeonato Brasil. After Wednesday and Thursday night’s fun stuff, there will be six matches left.

Oh what fun we will have watching and listening to these encounters on Globo Radio and GOL TV.

Three points separate the top five teams. Palmeiras has had numerous chances to put a ton of distance between them and the rest of the field. But no! Muricy and his stupid club have been playing like  junk for the last three weeks. They have stunk the joint out losing three straight in the process. Way to go garoto. Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Oh, I just love this stuff. Alviverde has only one win in the last four weeks. I tell ya what this will surely bring the Campeonato to Palmeiras.

Verdao has a huge date on Thursday with Goias. This is a must win for Alviverde. Goias is in seventh place with 47 points. Goias is five points out of fourth place. This baby will be a huge battle. The match is being played at Alviverde’s house Parque Antarctica.

Mengao has a big date with Gremio Barueri on Wednesday. Rubro-Negro has to take a trip to Barueri’s house Arena Barueri. Adriano, Petkovic, Ze-Roberto, and the rest of the guys need to bring it to the house and kick some major butt against Barueri Wednesday night. Three points are a must.

Mengao cannot afford to play like crap on the road. This is not the time for a let down. At stake, let me tell ya. Flamengo has a good chance to win their sixth Campeonato title. Lets go get em. Flamenguistas rule the world.

Sao Paulo and Internacional square off on Wednesday night. Tricolor and Colorado both have 52 points. This should be the money match of the day. Morumbi is the site of this epic battle. Sao Paulo’s house has been a horror house for Tricolor. In Sao Paulo’s last three home matches, Tricolor is winless. Can they go for a perfect four in a row? We will find out late Wednesday night.

Gomes is the clown who has engineered this classic destruction of a great team. I love it. Gomes is a genus. I love to watch him work his magic. This is sheer brilliance.

Atletico-MG takes on bottom feeder Fluminense. Po-de-arroz is a very dangerous club. Fluminense trailed Goias 2-0 before scoring two second half goals to secure a two all tie. This wounded duck match will take place in Maracana.   

Palmeiras has 54 points. Atletico-MG has 53 points. Internacional and Sao Paulo have 52 points each. Flamengo has 51 points.

Oh yes, there will be a hot time on the old tonight.

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What is happening to Argentina futebol makes me very sad.  I was born and raised in the good old USA. My wife is Brasilian. I have a Brasileiros heart.

I have a fondness for Argentina futebol. I remember Maradona’s Hand of God goal. I remember when Maradona raced up the pitch and dribbled through the entire English team. He made the English side look stupid. Goal. Baby this was all she wrote.

Futebol has always been a part of my life. I was first introduced to the game in the fourth grade. Mr. Maloof taught us how to play the game.

Back in the early 1960’s, futebol was not real big in the USA. Yet Mr. Maloof took the time teach is the game. We had a blast.

So, what does this have to do with the price of tea in China? I will show you.

I played fullback. It was really cool. I got to work on those two on one  situation. I became very good at defending. I loved it.

In my heart I wanted to be a football hero yet I played futebol. Soccer is what we call it in this country.

My heart yearned to be a football hero. When I entered high school, I gave up playing futebol to play football. In retrospect, this was a mistake. But hey, I was young and stupid. Now I am old and dumb. Go figure. Please tell me something I don’t know.

Futebol players didn’t get the girls football players did.

In Argentina, Brasil, and England it was just the opposite

I used to have this old short wave radio. I used to stay up all night listening to the BBC broadcast the 1966 World Cup.

I was hooked.

Pele made huge impression on me too. I heard stories about he how scored three goals in the 1956 World Cup semifinals.  This is now called a hat trick.

I read that Pele followed up that feat with two more goals in the 1956 World Cup finals.

One of my dear friends Julio is from Argentina. We meet in 1999. We had futebol in common. Julio is from Buenos Aires. He is a die-hard Boca fan. We spent hours talking about futebol.

Julio taught me about the great history of the AFA in particular the bitter rivalry between Boca and River Plate.

Julio lives and dies with his beloved Boca Juniors. Julio would brag about how great Boca was. He spoke in reverent terms about Basile and Tevez, Martin Palermo, Riquelme, Bianchi, Battaglia, Juan Carlos Lorenzo.

These two clubs have won well over ninety domestic and international titles between them. 

For the past few years, both of these storied clubs have been stinking the joint out. River and Boca have been falling faster than s snowball dropped from the top of the Empire State Building.

This Year River and Boca were unceremoniously dumped from the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana.

Both teams are languishing mid to lower table in the Apertura.

On Sunday, both Boca and River squared off in the Super Clássico. However this years Super Clássico wasn’t so super.

River and Boca are down right horrible. They both stink. The Super Clássico ended in a kiss your sister one all draw. Boring, but this the fate of both Boca and River.

Boca’s and River Plates slide into the abyss correlates to AFA near fatal miss of the 2010 World Cup.

Since mid 2007 the Argentina national team has been just going through the motions. This is why Basile quit. Enter Maradona and disaster follows. Blowouts. Crazy losses and stupid ties plagued Argentina up and down South America.

It all came down to one match for mighty Argentina. Win and you are in. Lose and go home. A last second goal by Palermo saved Maradona’s butt.

To fix Argentina’s problems is very simple. Fire both Grondona and Maradona. Get a coach who has a proven track record. Get the politics out of futebol and let the coach the team.

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A funny thing happened on the way to Liverpool’s funeral. Someone forgot to tell Liverpool to show up. Liverpool shut out the Red Devils 2-0. This was a huge win for the scousers. If the Reds lost they would have fallen out of contention for the league title instead Liverpool salvaged their season with a huge win in the Reds house at Anfield.

Goals by Torres and David Ngog gave the scousers the needed three points.

Manchester United stunk the joint out. The Reds kicked their lily butts up and down Anfield.

The Reds have Manchester United’s number. This makes four straight wins over the mighty Red Devils.

I wanna give a huge shout out and way to go garoto to the scousers for this all-important win over Man U.

The Gunners came up short in a two all tie with West Ham.

Liverpool is now one and one against the big four. Man U is one and one. Chelsea is two and zero while the Gunners have zero wins and two defeats.

Chelsea is in first place with 24 points. Manchester United is in second place with 22. Arsenal and Spurs have 19 points apiece however the Gunners are in third place due to a better goal difference than Tottenham. Arsenal has a plus 16 while Spurs are a plus seven.

Now onto my beloved Campeonato Brasil.

Flamengo is now in a must win situation. The Campeonato race is tighter than banana pants on a duck. Sao Paulo defeated Santos in a wild and wooly shoot out 4-3. Both sides’ traded goals back and forth the entire match until Tricolor keeper Rogerio Ceni nailed the match winner in the 68^th minute. Ceni lifted a free kick from the half moon at the top of the box. The ball rose above the wall. It went ker punk top shelf left for the winner.

If you love offensive futebol, this match was for you. There were lots of goals and little “D”.

This was a goal scorers delight.

Internacional defeated Gremio 1-0. D’Alessandro scored the match winner in the third minute. D’Alessandro was forty yards out. He took a few steps and let a wicked shot fly. The ball went boom right in front of the keeper Victor. The ball bounced into the left corner of the net. This was all she wrote. Victor should have stopped the shot. He tripped over his own feet and fell down. You can kiss this baby goodbye.

Goias was leading lowly Fluminense 2-0 but Goias let Po-de-arroz back into the match and wound up with a two all tie. This tie could severely hinder Goias chances of moving into the top four spots of the table.

The top four teams earn a berth in the Copa Libertadores.

Flamengo picked up a very important 1-0 win over Botafogo. Adriano took it straight to the rack. The Emperor raced from midfield straight into the box. Adriano had three guys hanging all over him. He went bing, bam, boom. Shot. Goal. Adriano had his 16^th goal of the season. The one on four happened in the 31^st minute.

Bruno came up big in the second half. Mengao had a massive brain fart. Penalty late in the match.  Mengao’s Airton commits a dumb foul in the box. He trips Fogao’s Andre Lima.  Flavio places the ball on the spot.  The run up. The shot. Stonewall time baby. Bruno stops the shot dead on. Match saver for Rubro-Negro. Oh, Glory be to God. Mengao gets three points instead of the dreaded one point.

All of us Flamenguistas are happy campers. Sunday night will be a good one for all of us.

The dust has settled on this Sunday evening. We have a log jam at the top of the table.

Palmeiras is in first place with 54 points. Atletico-MG is second with 53 points. Internacional and Sao Paulo each have 52 points apiece but Colorado is in third place with a better goal difference. Internacional has a plus 16 while Tricolor has a plus ten.

Mengao is in the fifth place with 51 points.

At the bottom end of the table Botafogo, Santo Andre, and Nautico each have 32 points. Santo Andre is one step above the heave zone in 16^th place. Ramalho’s goal difference is a minus 13. Nautico is in 17^th place. Timbu has a minus 17-goal difference. Botafogo is in 18^th place even though their goal difference is a minus seven. Fogao has only six wins as compared with Ramalho and Timbu who each have eight wins each.

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The predicable happened today in the EPL. Chelsea cleaned Blackburn’s clock 5-0. This match was pretty much over after the first twenty minutes. The truth of the matter is this. The Blues started out on the prowl and never let up. Chelsea came out breathing fire.

Lampard almost scored in the opening minute but his header was just wide of the mark.

The Blues scored their first goal in the 20^th minute. Michael Ballack stole the ball at midfield. He fired a great pass to teammate Nicolas Anelka. Anelka drove the left flank. He fired a great low ball into the box. Rovers Gael Givet stepped in front of the pass. Low and behold, the ball went flying past his own helpless keeper Paul Robinson. Bam. Own goal for Givet. This made 1-0 in favor the Blues.

The rout was on.

Lampard finally got his first tally in the 48^th minute. Lampard knocked home the winner to make 2-0 for the Blues. Essian fired a great pass to Drogba. Drogba missed. Here is the kicker. Rovers defender Lars Jackson made a half assed clearance of the ball thus handing a gift goal to Lampard.

Lampard’s PK in the 59^th minute gave him the daily double.

Drogba and Michael Essian each scored as well.

The Rovers looked like they were freaked out. Blackburn played scared all match long. They got their butts handed to them.

The victory gives Chelsea first place. We will see if the Blues will stay there for Man U and Liverpool have a tussle on Sunday. If the Red Devils win, they move back into the lead.

Spurs had a chance to keep pace but Tottenham lost to Stoke City 1-0. Glenn Whelan found the back of the net in the 86^th minute to steal the three points for Stoke City.

Peter Crouch had two chances to find the equalizer in the final moments but each time the ball was swept away at the last possible moment.

This was heartbreak city for Spurs.

Saturday is heartbreak for all us Flamenguistas. Atletico-MG held serve and beat Vitoria 1-0. This was a must win for Galo. Atletico now has 53 points. Galo trails Palmeiras by one point. Diego Tardelli scored his sixteenth goal of the season in the 27^th minute to lead Galo to the win. This goal was a classic bing, bam, boom move the ball down the pitch for the score. 

Flamengo needs to beat Botafogo to have a chance to move up the table.

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I have been looking forward all week to this day. Yep you guess it. It is Saturday.  Saturday is futebol day. Oh glory day for my wife and I will spend most of the day either watching or listening to Campeonato Brasil.

But first, we will go hear Michael Reagan speak at The Church On The Way.

For those of you who are asking yes we do have a pretty active life. But I am a futebol nut through and through. 

Flamengo has a great chance to move up the table if a few things happen. First Mengao needs to take care of business at Engenhão on Sunday.

Three points are a must. Adriano and Ze-Roberto will be up front leading the attack. But my other main man Petkovic needs to have another bang up game for Rubro-Negro. Petkovic has scored three goals in his last two matches.

Mengao will be missing a few key players. Williams and Ronaldo are suspended for having to many yellow cards. Alvaro, Kleberson, Everton, and David will be gone due to injuries. This is not good but Mengao should win.

Adriano will come up big and score a boatload of goals. I am hoping he’ll knock in at least two for us Flamenguistas.

The other match of interest is Sao Paulo and Santos. Tricolor is on a three-match slide.  Another loss will almost certainly kill their chances for a four peat. Lets sure hope so if  Tricolor gets bounced Mengao will move up the table to maybe second or third place.

In a nut cutting match third place Internacional takes on eighth place Gremio. Colorado has 49 points. Flamenguistas need Internacional to lose big.

Atletico-MG has an important date with Vitoria on Saturday.  Atletico-MG is in second place with 50 points. Vitoria is in ninth place with 44 points. All good Flamenguistas will root for a Vitoria win.

If this all plays out the way Flamenguistas need it to by Monday morning Mengao will be all by their lonesome in second place with 51 points.

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Flamengo is on the verge of moving into the top four spots in the Campeonato Brasil. Mengao for most of the season has been hovering mid to the lower end of the table. Then bam it all changed for Rubro-Negro and all of us Flamenguistas. The guys went on a kick ass hot streak from about mid-August until now.

The Boo-Mengao is currently in fifth place with 48 points. Flamengo trails fourth place Tricolor and third place Internacional by one point. Colorado and Sao Paulo each have 49 points.

The Emperor is tied for the golden boot award. Adriano, Atletico-MG Diego Tardelli, and Internacional’s Alecsandro each have fifteen goals apiece. But remember Adriano missed Mengao’s last two ball games due to World Cup qualifying duty the past week and half. Now the Emperor will be back in full force so the rest of the Campeonato better be careful.

Flamengo and the boys are back in town. It is time so lets get ready to rumble. This is a little WWF (World Wrestling Federation) lingo. Those wrestlers know how to put on a show.

Botafogo and Flamengo have a huge derby coming up this Sunday. Mengao travels across Rio de Janeiro to Engenhão to take on heated rival Fogao.

Botafogo so far this year has been struggling. Botafogo is currently in seventeenth place with 32 points. Santo Andre has 32 points but Ramalhao is in eighteenth place because of two more wins than Fogao. Botafogo also has a game in hand.

When we beat Botafogo on Sunday, this will drop Fogao further down the table.

Palmeiras had a chance to put some distance between them and Atletico-MG when Verdao took on bottom feeder Santo Andre. Not in this lifetime. Can you follow the bouncing ball and say upset city. Ramalho took it to Palmeiras 2-0.

Santo Andre scored off a wicked counter attack in the twentieth minute to take the early 1-0 lead. Camilo led the jailbreak after a turnover by Verdao at midfield. Camilo took it straight to the rack. He laid off a great pass to a streaking Nunes. Nunes belted home the easy winner into the naked goal.

Nunes added his second tally of the night in seventy-seventh minute. It was another one of those bonehead defensive lapses by Verdao. Ramalhao reversed the ball and quickly fired a spilt the seam in the defense pass. Camilo waited until the ball cleared in front of him. Camilo drew the keeper off his line. Verdao defender Mauritius was forced to stop Camilo. This was one of those two on one fast break opportunities. Camilo poked the ball to Nunes. Nunes said Oh look what I have. The melon is my hand. Nunes walked the ball into the open goal. Kiss this sucker goodbye. It was 2-0.  Turn out the lights the party’s over.

This is three straight loses for Palmeiras. Palmeirenses are now calling for Muricy’s head.

Now it looks like Alviverde is falling off the face of the earth.

The door is ever so slowly opening for Flamengo to win their sixth Campeonato Brasil.

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On Tuesday, the English clubs really stunk the joint out however on Wednesday it was a totally different day. Chelsea kicked some major butt in a 4-0 whitewash of Atletico Madrid at Stamford Bridge while Manchester United minus Wayne Rooney performed admirably in a 1-0 road win over CSKA Moscow.

The big upset of the day happened when AC Milan took it to everybody’s favorite to win the Champions League Real Madrid 3-2.  I love this stuff. It was great. Way to go garoto to stick a huge fork in Real Madrid’s phony pride and braggart ways.

The Red Devils were hard pressed in their match against CSKA. Man U was minus their super star Wayne Rooney. Dimitar Berbatov replaced Rooney as the go to man but he has yet to play up to expectations. I mean he misses time after time. This is not a good sign especially with a huge fight with Liverpool coming up on Sunday.

Man U started out slow. By the halfway point of the first half the Red Devils seized control of the match. Nani, Scholes, and O’Shea all had great scoring opportunities however they couldn’t quite pull the trigger.

The Red Devils didn’t give up and pressed the attack even more in the second half. Berbatov, Nani, and Owens all had excellent scoring chances but they came up with zero-zippo- nada until Valencia tickled the twines in the eighty-sixth minute.

Berbatov hit a great header to Valencia who was hanging around the back post. Valencia nailed the match winner and this was all she wrote baby. Three points for Man U and now on to Anfield.

Chelsea was in top form against the out matched Spanish Club Atletico Madrid. Atletico Madrid looked like a one legged man in a butt kicking contest. Yes, it was that bad. The Blues took control of the match from the opening bell. Chelsea played like we’re tired of this BS. Let’s steam roll em. This is what happened.

Salomon Kalou had a double. Lampard scored in the sixty-ninth minute. And to add insult to injury Atletico Madrid’ s Luis Perez found his own net late in the match. This was a great redirect of Chelsea’s Florent Malouda’s free kick by Perez into his own goal. When it rains it pours baby. Find a hole and jump in.

For me the best match of the day happened between Real Madrid and AC Milan. The Duck Man came through for the Italian club in the second half to puncture  the high and mighty Spanish giants pride and ego. The Duck Man Brasileiro Alexandre Pato scored twice in the second half to give the Italians the win.

His fellow countryman Kaka was stunned by the turn of events in the second half for it looked like Real would win. Not so fast buckaroo for when the Duck Man scores everybody listens.

I love it when teams like Real Madrid get knocked off their high horse.

Keep em coming Pato.

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What in the hell is happening to the Reds?  They stink to all mighty heaven. Liverpool needs to trade the entire team for the swine flu and start all over again. This is getting bad fast folks. Rafa needs to go.

Mark this day down as a turning point in the Reds season. Liverpool has dropped four straight.

Yossi Benayoun found the back of the net off a scramble ball to give the Reds a 1-0 lead just before half but Liverpool’s “D” let them down when the Reds gave up two second half goals. The nail in the coffin goal came when Sidney Govou sent a pass that went skittering across the goalmouth. Cesar Fabian Delgado saw the ball walking towards the left post. Oh, look what I found. This is surely a gift from God. Goal. This last gasp goal in injury time sent Liverpool packing with a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Lyon in Liverpool’s house Anfield.

The Reds had trouble all match long dealing with Lyon’s speed. This is one thing you can’t coach. Speed. Either you have it or you don’t. Liverpool is slow.

Liverpool has three points and they must win all their remaining matches in Group E play in order to move on.

The Reds are next to last with three points. Lyon has nine points.

Sure, injuries are part of the problem but Jeez coach this why you have back ups. If the back ups stink whose fault is it? Rafa.

This goes back to what I kept harping on over and over again since the season began in August. Liverpool was not prepared to play this season. This shows.

Rafa, you brought this on yourself. This is tough toenails dude so deal with it.

The Gunners suffered a let down at the end of the match. Arsenal led late until AZ Alkmaar scored off a great set piece in the dying moments of the match to level this baby at one all. David Mendez Silva one timed home the winner off a great header pass from teammate Graziano Pelle.

The result is a disappointing one all tied between Arsenal and AC Alkmaar.

Fabregas scored for the Gunners in the thirty-sixth minute. 

What do coaches always warn about? Turnovers baby. Those stinking horrible turnovers will always lead to a club’s destruction. And guess what? It was a TO baby that led to the Gunners only goal. AC Alkmaar defender Moisander made dumb pass in his own defensive end. Arsenals Alex Song intercepted the pass. Song fired a great ball to Arshavin and we’re off to the races.

This was classic tick, tack, doe futebol. Van Persie had an easy walk in goal.

The Gunners still lead Group H with seven points.

Do you want to talk about a shocker how about Barcelona’s 2-1 loss to FK Rubin Kazan. 

I never even heard of the FK Rubin Kazan. Where the hell are they from?  From Russia, that’s where they are from. Who would have known that without looking it up? Surely not me that’s for sure.

I bet this score sent shock waves through the rest of the futebol world.  I sure bet Barcelona knows where Rubin Kazan is from. Oh, by the way did you get the number of the Russian truck that just ran us over?

Dynamo Kiev tied with mighty Italian club Internacional two all. Kiev outplayed “The Genius’s” club throughout the match. Sure Mourinho’s club almost pulled out the win in the end but this was close but no cigar. Jose your team played like crap.

It sure looks like the big boys have the case of lets play like crap week. Snake eyes. You lose. 

So gag me with a spoon why don’t you. For these high and mighty types think that they can play shoddy ball and get away with it. Not in this lifetime.

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