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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You can spend Christmas with the family too!
From watching the highlight only, Luiz Adriano is on the far end of either the oblviousness or sociopath spectrum. Maybe both.
The best part of that highlight was him managing to get a low five from his teammate after the goal. Also, I wasn't watching the game, but apparently Shakhtar didn't just let Nordsjaelland score after that, either.
It's going to be a quick appointment (rumours are an announcement tomorrow), and Rafa (who appears to feel a need to get back into the game) seems to have the inside track. That should make Torres happy, but it won't do anything to remedy the team's fundamental structural flaws or its Steinbrennerian culture issues.
They didn't, but just as incredible was the fact that they still managed to score anyways on a rather excellent strike. The whole scene was pretty funny -- the Danish guy started dribbling from the restart towards Shakhtar's net, thinking Shakhtar were going to let him score, but one of Shakhtar's midfielders stepped up and won the ball back. The pick-up (basketball) phrase "ball don't lie" seems wholly appropriate here.
70s/80s Steinbrenner is a good comp. There is no small amount of silliness around the Abramovich-run Chelsea team but at the same time they bring in elite players and they are the reigning European champs so it's hard to say that it's been a particularly harmful approach. Of course the late-80s/early-90s Yankees provide a cautionary tale.
I can't lie and say that I'm not embarassed this morning for my club. Today's firing of RDM borders on the ludicrous. Yesterday was a tough defeat, but we are basically playing the last month without a striker whether Torres is or isn't in the lineup and Sturridge hasn't been fit. Chelsea has been better than I thought coming into the season with a transitional lineup with lots of young players, a thin and poor form striker position and the Terry debacle. AVB deserved his sacking, but I don't see how RDM did, especially considering that he's family and has trophies to show for less than a year of effort. Torres and the board that gave him that crazy contract has a lot more to do with our autumn swoon than RDM has.
Obviously it's a problem a lot of teams would love to have and I am not for a moment suggesting that Chelsea are going to finish midtable or anything. But Abramovich wants Chelsea to basically be like late-50s Real Madrid in their dominance and it's just not going to happen. Not everybody wants to play for them and many of those who do play for them - or coach for them - are in it for the big paycheck. They've reached the point of diminishing returns, where the more he meddles the less likely Chelsea are going to become the dominant team he wants but he doesn't get that.
I would also suggest that even if Pep comes it won't change a lot. Abramovich is going to force him to play his guys, he's going to bring in guys Pep doesn't really care for and Pep is going to be there for the paycheck. If he fails out loud everybody will chalk it up to Chelsea being run by a lunatic and he'll be able to walk into any job in world football as if Chelsea never happened. It's also not his club like Barca was, so I don't think he'll bring the 100% dedication that basically forced him to quit the Barca job before he keeled over from a heart attack.
He can't leave NYC now! In a few weeks the family's taking a trip up to do pre-Xmas tourist-y things, and one of the main reasons TE Jr. is excited to go is that he fully expects he will bump into Pep somewhere in our wanderings and be able to chat his up with the rudimentary, 2nd-grade-level Spanish that he knows...
I tried explaining to him that the odds are pretty much stacked against this happening, but in his head, if Pep's spending a year in NYC, why wouldn't he just be wandering around the city all the time, doing all the tourist-y stuff we do? Ah, the logic of a seven-year-old.
Aside from the fact you know you'll get a payout for doing nothing because you're guaranteed to be fired before the end of your contract... why on Earth would anyone with serious managerial ambitions take the Chelsea job? Or maybe that's exactly why: you know you'll get a nice fat check in the end to do nothing.
Just a gentleman's agreement and a general sense of fair play. I think in the replay you can see a half-hearted appeal by the Nordsjaelland players towards the ref and he just kind of shrugs. Nothing Adriano did is illegal, it's just extremely frowned upon. Shakhtar's manager Lucescu said after the game Adriano wouldn't be punished. You can read a translation of his press conference here.
Ridiculous that Di Matteo got sacked. Utterly ridiculous.
I can't imagine Roman liking Rafa's playing style. I seem to recall he played pretty defensively his last years at Liverpool.
Since Roman took over they've won 3 EPL titles, 4 FA Cups, a Champions League, been Champions League runners up and advanced to the Champions League semis four other times. It's a short term gig but it's one that is going to come with a lot of money, a lot of attention and ultimately should come with at least one significant accomplishment. Not terrible for six months work.
Obviously you go in with eyes wide open but if you do that it doesn't seem the worst option in the world. It's not like going someplace where you're goal is to avoid relegation. Of the recent crop has any manager seen any meaningful decline in his reputation? It doesn't seem like it to me. Maybe Grant.
Pep's daughter goes to school in NYC with my friend's kid, and my friend has gotten to know him a bit through school functions and birthday parties, which Pep seems to faithfully attend. He's apparently living a normal Upper West Side life in relative anonymity. No clue whether he'd leave that for Chelsea midyear, but I sort of doubt it.
Gentlemen's agreement, but on ethat is pretty universally accepted (unlike, say, not bunting in a no hitter). My guess is UEFA levies a fine or Shaktar does it to themselves. Luckily, the game ended in a blowout so no replay was necessary (unlike last time this happened in the FA Cup - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whO5GAFBp30).
Agreed. Liverpool complain about their talent but at least they have Suarez. Chelsea has absolute shite up front and has been beat up at the back. Not replacing Drogba with a similar striker was unforgivable.
Yep. Don't see Juve losing a game in which a draw gets them through. Hope I am wrong though.
That's awesome. In the back of my mind I sort of hope he expresses a desire to take over the Red Bulls and lead them to CONCACAF Champions League glory while bringing tiki-taka to NYC.
The real question: Does your friend know if Pep likes skating at Bryant Park? And, if so, would he be doing so sometime the week of December 3rd? A certain seven-year-old would love to know... ;)
I'd heard of the Arsenal-Sheffield game but never seen the clip. Interesting that only a small number of fans behind the net seemed to be celebrating the goal.
Dunno their attitude to skating, but would think that Wollman (or even Lasker) would be a more likely destination than Bryant Park, which is really just for tourists and denizens of midtown.
Lots of reports that Rafa will be unveiled this evening.
I'm a Chelsea fan, but I'm sort of weirdly excited about this, because I have tickets to Chelsea-Nordsjaelland, and it might be a bit exciting to see a game that really matters! Although I'd rather they'd beaten Juve, of course.
Rafa might actually suit Chelsea. More organisation, more discipline will help, I think.
Guess Rafa's role is to keep the seat warm for the future big name then. That elusive long-term dude.
They weren't able to produce that much in 15 minutes today, but I think it's a really competitive lineup for the premier league.
It looks like I'm going to be going to the Spurs-Panathinaikos in two weeks. That should be fun, one hopes.
As for the game, Lloris probably grabs the headlines with a sensational shift. Hopefully AVB sticks with him for the weekend. Carroll wasn't as effective as he was against Maribor, but it was a disgrace that his peach of a through ball for Bale to score early on was wrongly chalked off for offside. That's three, maybe four, perfectly good goals that've been called back over the two Lazio fixtures. Good grief.
It sure was great to see the Moose back out there late on. Someone who'll take a man on in midfield and beat him! I'd nearly forgotten what that looked like. Lazio (and everyone else Spurs have played since Dembele's been out) had it too easy insofar as they knew pressure on the ball in midfield would almost certainly result in a sideways or backwards pass. Hoping for a 4-3-3 against West Ham with Sandro, Dembele, and Carroll in midfield to give Spurs a little more authority in their buildup play.
That's a pretty strange suggestion.
Ugh! Just incredible.
Edit: wait, the suspects are Roma fans? That seems even more effed up.
It's a really odd headline.
He says he "fancied" the Ukraine job. The newsmill says QPR had to act before he took that job, which is why Hughes got the sack now. Not that they really needed an excuse for firing him now.
Super Caley were fantastic, Celtic are atrocious.
Well, Spurs are scoring some goals, so there's that.
They stayed up last season with 37', and three seasons ago the best relegated club only managed 30.
35 won't be easy, but it could very well be enough.
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