This is not your father’s Japanese team: when just a few years ago most of the players played in Japan, fourteen players play their club football in Europe.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.
The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.
The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.
A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals
They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!
Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard
When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.
Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!
“They all knew.”
… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop
Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)
Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?
Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.
Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.
Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.
The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.
You cannot shame the shameless.
Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.
Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.
There is no right way to do the wrong thing.
Usually wrong but never in doubt
Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.
Amir Khalid
And Brasil are already one up. That was quick.
NickT
Sadly, it isn’t grandfather’s Brazil either. I guess nothing is.
Randinho
Japan’s defense appears to be your father’s Japanese team.
MattR
Figure this is the right place to ask if anyone else is having issues with the HD feed of ESPN. Trying to watch the “normal” feed and it is painful. How did we ever survive 10 years ago?
Randinho
@MattR: It’s cut out a couple of times, but seems okay now.
red dog
This sport has so many critical qualifying games for one cup or another that any relevance left my mind many years ago and I am pre-boomer. If it keeps people so busy they can’t bomb me then I’m all for it.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@efgoldman: Next year in Sochi. Bring your skates and skis.
MattR
@Randinho: Still out for me :( Serves me right for saying nice things about Comcast recently.
Amir Khalid
And it’s 2-nil to Brazil. Japan don’t seem to have the finishing to stay in this match.
Thlayli
I just turned it on at the start of the second half. Is Kagawa playing?
Randinho
@Thlayli: I believe so, but he appears to be invisible.
Hawes
You know, my father owned neither Brazil nor Japan. I’m not sure who your dad is.
NickT
@Hawes:
Cthulhu-sensei has noted your interest in his corporate holdings and will be sending some friends of his over for a friendly chat in the near future.
burnspbesq
@MattR:
I’m willing to make a small wager that ESPN isn’t causing the problem. Pretty much every World Cup-related infrastructure project is behind schedule, over budget, FUBAR, or some combination thereof. Next year is likely to be a public relations disaster for Brazil, and the 2016 Olympics could be even worse.
? Martin
@efgoldman: And full of lies! How can they have a confederate cup without a team from Alabama, suitable hooded and armed?
Yatsuno
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): I’m wondering if the IOC isn’t taking a good hard second look at the Sochi games after the anti-gay law passed the Duma. They made China change their anti-HIV laws before the Beijing games under threat of pulling them. It would be a nightmare if they did but I have to think there will be some kind of pressure there.
@Randinho: :: hugs Randinho ::
Hi. :)
Amir Khalid
Three – nil! Not a surprising result, but a more even match than one might have expected not so many years ago.
MattR
@burnspbesq: That was why I asked. ESPN2 was bradcasting in HD so I was curious if there was soemthing with the feed from Brazil or with my cable company. Given Randinho’s response, I have a feeling it was both.
And isn’t that part of the purpose of the Confederations Cup? To give the upcoming World Cup host a chance to do a dry run and see where work still needs to be done (I have read that Brazil is having issues, but I seem to remember reading the same thing 4 years ago about South Africa)
? Martin
@Yatsuno: If we send a team from Gayistan, would they have to break their law and acknowledge it?
I propose that Congress allow the confederate states to secede as they are desperate to do, but only on the condition they name themselves Gayistan and send an all-gay team to the Sochi Olympics. I think everybody wins there.
pseudonymous in nc
@MattR:
Yeah, 2010 wasn’t all peachy, but the infrastructure was in place. Let’s put it this way: this will be the last World Cup in a while where the world actually gives a flying one about the host nation. There is a lot of goodwill towards Brazil finally getting its chance, and it’ll be ready one way or another.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@pseudonymous in nc:
1950?
scott
A Neymar that can finish!