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C. Everett Koop posted:I have no clue what I'm doing. (Last team in each group is third) A: Barca, Napoli, Basel B: Wrexham, Valencia, Marseille C: Bayern, Milan, Videoton D: Arsenal, Benefica, Salzburg E: Real Madrid, PSV, Anji F: Man U, Dortmund, Karpaty G: Juventus, Lyon, Porto H: PSG, Man City, Granada Wrexham goals: 144 goals. I'm also gonna say that Stromsgodset is going to lose their group games by a combined 12 goals. I don't know how good they are, but I'm fairly certain that the Norwegian champion can't stand up to the giants of French football and two second tier teams from the two best leagues in the world. Insertnamehere31 fucked around with this message at 18:36 on May 27, 2014 |
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Group A: Barcelona, Napoli (Basel) Group B: Wrexham, Schalke (Valencia) Group C: Bayern, Milan (Rijeka) Group D: Arsenal, Benfica (Rubin) Group E: Real Madrid, PSV (Slask) Group F: United, Dortmund (Anderlecht) Group G: Juventus, Lyon (Porto) Group H: PSG, City (Granada) Wrexham will score 131 goals.
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1st/2nd/3rd Group A: Barcelona/Napoli/Basel Group B: Schalke/Wrexham/Marseille Group C: Bayern/Milan/Rijeka Group D: Arsenal/Benfica/RB Salzburg Group E: Real Madrid/PSV/Anji Group F: Man Utd/Dortmund/Anderlecht Group G: Juventus/Porto/Lyon Group H: PSG/Man City/Granada 169 goals.
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A: Barca, Napoli; Tel Aviv B: Wrexham, Marseille; Valencia C: Bayern, Milan; Videoton D: The vile filth whose existence I intend to end, Benfica; Rubin. E: Real Madrid, Anji; PSV F: Dortmund, Man United; Anderlecht G: Juve, Lyon; Porto H: PSG, Man City; Granada 170 Goals.
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A: Barcelona, Napoli, Basel B: Schalke, Wrexham, Valencia C: Bayern, Milan, Rijeka D: Arsenal, Rubin, Benfica E: Real Madrid, PSV, Anji F: Manchester United, Dortmund, Anderlecht G: Juve, Rangers, Porto H: Man City, PSG, Granada One Hundred and Eightyyyyyy!
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Group A: Barcelona, Napoli advance (Basel) Group B: Schalke, Valencia advance (Wrexham) Group C: FC Bayern, Milan advance (Videoton) Group D: Arsenal, Benfica advance (FC Red Bull Salzburg) Group E: Real Madrid, PSV advance (Anji) Group F: Man Utd, Anderlecht advance (Dortmund) Group G: Juventus, Lyon advance (Rangers) Group H: PSG, Man City advance (Granada) 162 goals
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In order of appearance the named teams advance, advance and get third. Group A Barca, Napoli, Basel Group B Wrexham, Schalke, Valencia Group C Bayern, Milan, Rijeka Group D Arsenal, Benfica, Salzburg Group E Real, PSV, Anji Group F ManU, Dortmund, Anderlecht Group G Juve, Porto, Lyon Group H ManCity, PSG, Granada Wrexham will score 143 goals in all competitions.
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Group A: Barcelona, Napoli, Basel 3rd Group B: Wrexham, Valencia, Marseille 3rd Group C: Bayern, Milan, Videoton 3rd Group D: Arsenal, Benfica, Rubin 3rd Group E: Real Madrid, PSV, Anji 3rd Group F: Man U, Dortmund, Karpaty 3rd Group G: Porto, Leon, Rangers 3rd Group H: Man City, PSG, Granada 3rd Wrexham will score around 115 goals.
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pre:1 2 3 A: Barca, Napoli, Tel Aviv; B: Wrexham, Marseille, Valencia; C: Bayern, Milan, Videoton; D: Arsenal, Benfica, Rubin; E: Real Madrid, Anji, PSV; F: Dortmund, Man United, Anderlecht; G: Juve, Lyon, Porto; H: PSG, Manchester City, Granada; I copied someone 
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I'm taking it as a personal insult that people think we're going to only score ~2 goals a game. You realize I'm an American, right? I abhor low scoring games. A proper score is 4-2, or 5-4, or even 7-3. Who needs defense if you score every few minutes?
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habeasdorkus posted:I'm taking it as a personal insult that people think we're going to only score ~2 goals a game. You realize I'm an American, right? I abhor low scoring games. A proper score is 4-2, or 5-4, or even 7-3. Who needs defense if you score every few minutes? 7-3 is a terrible football score. Scott Brown? More like Cleveland Browns. 
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Group A: Barca, Napoli, Tel Aviv. Group B: Wrexham, Marseille, Schalke. Group C: Bayern, Milan, Rijeka. Group D: Arsenal, Benfica, Rubin Kazan. Group E: Real, PSV, Slask. Group F: Scum, Dortmund, Anderlecht. Group G: Juve, Lyon, Porto. Group H: PSG, Man City, Granada. Wrexham will score exactly 200 goals.
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Zaodai posted:7-3 is a terrible football score. Scott Brown? More like Cleveland Browns. I'm more of a baseball fan. Like REAL Americans (including those from Latin America). But yes, if a football game ends 7-3 it was probably an awful offensive performance combined with a very good defensive performance. AKA, the SEC.  B1G 4 LYFE! I'm watching the NHL eastern conference finals right now, a player flopped after pretending to be hit by a high stick and was given a 2 minute penalty for "embellishment." The other team tied the game during their 5 vs 4 advantage. I really wish other sports did the same. And that doesn't just mean soccer, basketball is terrible these days and even gridiron football has people trying to draw flags for what amounts to incidental contact on passing plays downfield. Baseball is better, but that's only because there's no common situation where flopping can help a team. eta: The LeBron/West double flop: 
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HAHAHAHAHA.. Keep Watching Habeus. Keep watching.
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This entry is entirely randomly generated. Group A: H. Tel-Aviv and Napoli advance, Basel finishes third Group B: Valencia and Marseille advance, Wrexham finishes third Group C: Milan and Rijeka advance, FC Bayern finishes third Group D: FC Red Bull Salzburg and Arsenal advance, Rubin finishes third Group E: Real Madrid and Slask advance, Anji finishes third Group F: Karpaty and Man Utd advance, Dortmund finishes third Group G: Lyon and Juventus advance, Porto finishes third Group H: Man City and Granada advance, PSG finishes third For the tiebreaker, a random number between the lowest and highest entries so far. Wrexham will score a glorious 166 goals. If anyone finishes below me, they will know true shame.
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Group A) Barca, Napoli, Basel Group B) Wrexham, Marseille, Valencia Group C) Bayern, Milan, Rijeka Group D) Arsenal, Benefica, Salzburg Group E) Real, PSV, Anji Group F) Dortmund, United, Anderlecht Group G) Juventus, Rangers, Porto Group H) City, Granada, PSG. Wrexham has proven time and time again that they only get better, and with how well you played last year I'm going to assume total domination of everything football like. Wrexham will score at least 250 goals.
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habeasdorkus posted:I'm more of a baseball fan. Like REAL Americans (including those from Latin America). But yes, if a football game ends 7-3 it was probably an awful offensive performance combined with a very good defensive performance. AKA, the SEC. Ah, a baseball fan. A sport that is about nothing but drinking and numbers where some fans then rabidly hate others for not looking at the "right" numbers. ERA was invented by Christ himself, and if it was good enough for Jesus it's good enough for you! I'm for all the bullshit stats we can get. Part of being a football fan. Watch guys hit each other, then hear all kinds of cherry picked stats that sound impressive. Our team is leading the league in 3rd down conversion rate with 7 minutes or more to go in the 3rd quarter on cloudy days where the wind blows from the northeast? poo poo yeah, go team!
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Baseball is nothing more than glorified rounders. Real men play cricket.
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If you guys are baseball fans, you should jump over to Smasher Dynamo's Baseball Mogul Super-League thread and create your own teams when the expansion period begins in a week or so. Until then, you can mainline all his writing about random players and owners and wacky happenings. You'll get your numbers, you'll get your compelling narratives, and you can even join us in IRC and continue the madness outside of the thread. It's a fine companion to this thread.
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A Tartan Tory posted:Baseball is nothing more than glorified rounders. Oh go wiggle your wicked googly. Actually, I want to learn to appreciate cricket, I was in the UK for the Ashes last summer and got to listen to the home team get dismantled both before and after lunch each day by the Australians, but despite the similarities the gap is large enough between the two sports for me to not quite be able to get a hang of it trying to learn as an outsider. At least soccer I played as a kid and have more opportunity to watch. Of course, even if I got into cricket I'd probably become a Twenty20 fan and be given severe side-eye. And baseball is great. I will hear no argument. My biggest complaint with my parents is that they didn't teach me to pitch lefthanded and thus crushed my dreams of making the majors. Which, admittedly, points to an idyllic childhood. eta: it also points to a serious overestimation of my own ability. I wasn't horrible as a 12 year old, but I also seldom started on my little league team, and I didn't play into high school. Being a lefty wouldn't have solved that fundamental problem. Zaodai posted:Ah, a baseball fan. A sport that is about nothing but drinking and numbers where some fans then rabidly hate others for not looking at the "right" numbers. ERA was invented by Christ himself, and if it was good enough for Jesus it's good enough for you! Excuse me, I'm a modern baseball fan. OPS+ and ERA-! If the stats aren't normalized for offensive level and park effects, they're not poo poo. How else can I compare a player from 1914 to one from 2014? I worship at the altar of WAR, and if you try to tell me that Miguel Cabrera was the best player the last two years over Mike Trout, I think there's something fishy with the way you determine Most Valuable Player. I also do like football, NFL more than college. And now I'll plug FootballOutsiders.com as my favorite advanced stats NFL site. cbx posted:If you guys are baseball fans, you should jump over to Smasher Dynamo's Baseball Mogul Super-League thread and create your own teams when the expansion period begins in a week or so. Oh snap, I used to consider myself a dab hand at Baseball Mogul. I need to remember to make a team. The Kalamazoo Grundlecrunchers will ride again, in their 250'-350'-250' bandbox! habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 03:59 on May 28, 2014 |
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If you want to learn to appreciate cricket, start by imbibing a large amount of beer, then dress up in a strange costume and pop down to a big game. I am literally the only cricket fan in Scotland, hear me roar.
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habeasdorkus posted:Oh snap, I used to consider myself a dab hand at Baseball Mogul. I need to remember to make a team. The Kalamazoo Grundlecrunchers will ride again, in their 250'-350'-250' bandbox! That's not that crazy anymore, not since the introduction of the Dinger Temple. But seriously, have a go at it, it's always fun to see what kind of teams people produce.
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If you want to learn to appreciate cricket, hang out in a bar packed to the gills with drunk Indians. I still have no idea how cricket is played, but getting shithoused at a bar in Jamaica, Queens with a bunch of drunk-rear end Guyanans/Indians while watching the India/Pakistan match was easily the best time I've ever had watching sports on TV.
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habeasdorkus posted:I'm more of a baseball fan. Like REAL Americans (including those from Latin America). But yes, if a football game ends 7-3 it was probably an awful offensive performance combined with a very good defensive performance. AKA, the SEC. Someone didn't watch the SEC this year, I can't remember watching a game where teams didn't break into high 20s, low 30s. Hell, UGA was 40+ PPG for a while there. In other words the O was amazing and the D sucked balls.
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KKKLIP ART posted:Someone didn't watch the SEC this year, I can't remember watching a game where teams didn't break into high 20s, low 30s. Hell, UGA was 40+ PPG for a while there. Yeah, I was just funning. As proof that I wasn't serious, I acted like the Big 10 wasn't loving awful.
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habeasdorkus posted:Yeah, I was just funning. As proof that I wasn't serious, I acted like the Big 10 wasn't loving awful. Its all good.  SEC defense meme is just funny to me, especially last year where it looked like nobody at all had a defense.What I am really trying to say is MACtion all day every day
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habeasdorkus posted:Yeah, I was just funning. As proof that I wasn't serious, I acted like the Big 10 wasn't loving awful. Michigan State Spartans 13-1 Big Ten and Rose Bowl champs 
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Instead of finishing the update I watched sports all night. That included the US game with Azerbaijan, wherein the Land of Fire played straight up with the Land of the Free for 75 minutes before we stopped being awful. If Aron Johansson isn't getting playing time over loving Chris Wondolowski in the World Cup, I am going to hunt down Jurgen Klinnsman and choke him to death with a pukka bead necklace.
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habeasdorkus posted:Oh snap, I used to consider myself a dab hand at Baseball Mogul. I need to remember to make a team. The Kalamazoo Grundlecrunchers will ride again, in their 250'-350'-250' bandbox! You're a MI guy? I work for the Tigers. 
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A Tartan Tory posted:If you want to learn to appreciate cricket, start by imbibing a large amount of beer, then dress up in a strange costume and pop down to a big game. I started getting into Cricket was because But now it seems there's some shifty poo poo going on with the big three (India, Australia and England) teaming up to decide who matters and who can play in what tier. It's headed by India who is wielding their massive population like a weapon. It's rubbish! I am still new to the fandom, though. Sri Lanka rules, Pakistan drools.
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cbx posted:You're a MI guy? I work for the Tigers. If I say I'm a Michigander, can I get tickets? Does that go double if I'm from the UP? Sadly, no. I'm from Massachusetts. I was gleeful about how we slipped past your Tigers on our way to our third world championship in ten years. I will never forget Torii Hunter going over the fence in a desperate attempt to keep Big Papi's grand slam in the yard. 
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After a multi day marathon (aided by a poor sleep schedule) I've finally caught up with the thread after losing interest around when you first took over Wrexham. Oh me of little faith. This LP has kinda reignited my interest in football. Also, you're apparently a Bostonian lawyer who wants to be on Jeopardy, which is basically me in five years. Next time you're in town proper let me or the local thread know and I'll buy you a pint.
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Jenner posted:I started getting into Cricket was because The one thing that binds all non-Indian cricket fans together is "gently caress the BCCI", a collection of corrupt nepotistic arseholes who'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
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habeasdorkus posted:I'm watching the NHL eastern conference finals right now, a player flopped after pretending to be hit by a high stick and was given a 2 minute penalty for "embellishment." The other team tied the game during their 5 vs 4 advantage. I really wish other sports did the same. In my opinion ice hockey suffers from inconsistent refereeing - maybe not so much in the NHL but every year in the IIHF world champs. In addition the crowd favorites seem to get a ridiculous advantage from ref calls, like the disallowed goal from Latvia against the host country Belarus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1n8ozHh7x0) For the final match the head coach of Russia was banned from coaching and from partaking in the post game ceremony (he made a cutthroat gesture to the Swedish assistant coach http://www.iihfworlds2014.com/en/news/znaroksuspension/) and you can see what happens in the match in the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQgzLzOcYpk (the Jormakka tackle was from the group stage, not the final) Naturally the Swedes and the Finns were pissed off with these antics. Russia finally took gold (with 4 powerplay goals out of 5), they were the best team by a mile: they had Ovie, Malkin and Bobrovski, and the top 3 in scoring leaders of the tournament were Tikhonov, Zaripov and Plotnikov. In comparison Finns had Rinne (two-time Vezina nominee goalie), Olli Jokinen (played 799 matches in the NHL before reaching the playoffs for the first time) and Haula (Minnesota rookie). Sorry about the derailed rant, but football is not that big in my country and I thought that a little infodump about the IIHF worlds would pique the interest of some of the readers. I've gotten the impression that it's not so popular in North America?
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habeasdorkus posted:If I say I'm a Michigander, can I get tickets? Does that go double if I'm from the UP? Sadly, no. I'm from Massachusetts. I was gleeful about how we slipped past your Tigers on our way to our third world championship in ten years. I will never forget Torii Hunter going over the fence in a desperate attempt to keep Big Papi's grand slam in the yard. Somewhere, the Ghost of Kirby Puckett laughs and laughs and laughs.
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