Wednesday, December 12, 2012
2013 Results: Bonds, Clemens, Piazza and Biggio are elected to the Hall of Merit!
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Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza and Craig Biggio have been elected to the Hall of Merit!
The timing for our first year electing 4 candidates could not have worked out better, since class of 2013 is the strongest in terms of electees that we’ve ever had. The top of the 1934 ballot included Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, Pop Lloyd, Smokey Joe Williams and Cristobal Torriente, but only 2 were elected.
Bonds and Clemens were each unanimous at 1 and 2. I believe that’s the first ...
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< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >His goal yesterday was pretty sweet.
Inability to take care of the ball in midfield is the main problem right now. Nobody in the middle of the park will take a man on and try to dribble through, not Thud, not Sandro, not Dempsey. Desperately missing a fit Dembele at the moment. Until he's ready, I would play Carroll who at least puts himself about and finds space. Dempsey worked reasonably hard today, but just doesn't have it together and has been a passenger in every game he's played.
Brilliant shift from Adebayor. Hands down MOTM from Tottenham's point of view. More please.
I love Caulker and thought he was great for 90% of the game, but I have to agree with all of this. On the second goal in particular Caulker was completely caught off balance by a pass that was pretty but definitely foreseeable for a good CB.
Sorry if this is a dumb question (I don't follow Spurs as much as many on this thread). How much of their problems in the midfield are related to the change in managers and strategies? They seemed more of a direct or quick-striking team under Redknapp.
One thing about Keane in MLS: he still plays with a lot of intensity and has really helped LA. He and Donovan combined really well again tonight.
Mike Magee is a fun player to watch. I'd like to see him get a look in the January USMNT camp. He can play a couple of roles (including GK!) and plays hard and smart. He's not more than a bench player for the Gold Cup but you need role players with a head on them and a good work ethic. Magee can be that guy.
They're ahead of Barcelona in average height, alcohol tolerance, number of players named "Liam", all kinds of statistics.
Brilliant shift from Adebayor. Hands down MOTM from Tottenham's point of view. More please.
At City, Adebayor worked hard and played well for his first few games. Then just the games vs Arsenal. Then not at all. Seems like he's found the same pattern at Spurs.
I think they'd be having just as much trouble, and probably more, under Redknapp with the same personnel. Modric was the guy who made Harry's 4-4-1-1 work. He's gone. So even if Harry hadn't been sacked, I think he would have been forced to adapt somewhat.
Spurs are still a direct, counter-attacking team really. They're just rubbish at it right now because they're missing their most direct midfielder (Dembele, who's as critical to the current iteration of Spurs as Modric was to the last one) and Dempsey and Sigurdsson are, apparently, terrible. My biggest criticism of Villas-Boas so far, aside from persisting with Friedel, is not giving Tom Carroll a shot in league games. He would seem to suit AVB's preferred style of play so much better than Dempsey.
I don't know where you're getting this. Adebayor was pretty uniformly excellent throughout last season. He had two or three poor games that I can remember, but there was never a prolonged slump or evidence of disinterest.
Yesterday was his first start in the league this season, after recovering from various niggles. We'll see if the energy and dynamism he showed against City and Maribor hold up in the future. On the balance of his Tottenham career thusfar, I see no reason to believe they won't. Especially with Arsenal up next. Ha!
Mattbert - it's true that Adebayor was very good for most of his first season at Spurs. I just don't think he's a player you can count on to do the business over a prolonged period of time, as Arsenal and City learned. He could certainly prove me wrong this year.
As for City, I'm just happy we have Silva back. He's what makes us go.
I should also correct something I got wrong in #103. City's first goal came from a counter-attack, not a throw-in. There was a glorious scoring chance they created from a throw-in deep in Tottenham's half, but I remember now that they failed to convert it. Aguero with a left-footed shot that went just wide of the far post, so similar to the goal. Regardless, Caulker defended Aguero poorly both times!
I think Adebayor is one of those many footballers who needs to be The Man and needs to feel loved to be at his best.
Yeah, this is totally right.
That's the draw? Wow. How do the English stations decide the tv broadcast? I'm sure if they show it, FSC will show it.
Wimbeldon didn't look that good in the 1st round replay; their opponent was down a man for over 80 minutes. But no doubt they'll be up for this one.
The majority view seems to be that they won't show up for the game, or a replay if one takes place.
Crispix - most games at MK Dons are an annoying spectacle, with the ground usually one thirds full at best, and many of those who are there being let in for free. The whole thing was a disgrace and remains one.
This team plays dumb, and it starts at the top with Klinsmann. Another lineup with 3 defensive midfielders. This game doesn't count, experiment a little.
I don't know if you've seen a replay of what happened, but it was so colossally dumb that yes, it's for the better.
I thought Gatt (not Gott!) looked pretty solid as a first cap.
Lots of talk about the hexagonal schedule, are we think 4 points in those first four games is a satisfactory start or am I aiming to low? We CAN do more but I'm trying to get myself set for what is likely to be a rough start to the qualification run with three road games in the first four.
Four goals on the evening. The fourth a bicycle kick from at least 30 yards out.
Altidore didn't seem to have a horrible game, but pretty funny the other two guys' hold up plays turn into goals and his nice cutback gets launched way over the goal.
Bradley was impressive tonight. He had a few very good long passes in addition to that nice volley.
He's started about two-thirds of their games, and been subbed off in half of those.
He also has a below-average player rating from kicker (with some particularly bad ratings before games for which he was dropped).
He was a local youth sensation when we lived in Frankfurt, and has always been seen as a talented guy who often failed to produce the goods.
He's far from their best player but he starts in Champions League. That's a pretty good barometer of his role on the team.
My point was that it isn't as if he's been amazing for Schalke and crap for the USMNT.
I just don't see any real skill of his. Yeah he's big and strong, but in the few games I've seen him play, I don't see him as an enforcer or a good defender. Edu at least seems like a decent defender. Bradley has to be our box to box player that is asked to put in incredible shifts.
Fabian Johnson has played well when I've seen him.
Is it just me or is Bocanegra seriously flirting with being washed up? I don't really see how he's going to be - or at least should be - a starter in the World Cup. The fact that he didn't seem to get a better offer than a second tier SPL team is pretty indicative of what teams think about him.
If Cameron, Gonzalez or Goodson or others can play their way in front of him so be it but I don't think Preparing for the future is the job of next twelve months.
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