Before I post my thoughts on Group D, I just wanted to share some great news: thanks to commenter Alison Parker, we have a Balloon Juice Bracket on ESPN. Click here. The name is BalloonJuicers and the password, appropriately enough, is tunch. Post your predictions!
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TooManyJens
Excellent motto.
Alison
Thanks, Randinho!
And hopefully there’s nothing I need to do having once set up the group because I know fuck all about it :P It’s just for fun, though, right?
Also, feel free to invite others if you want.
Yutsano
Italia all the way. No I have no rhyme nor reason for this prediction.
Alison
@TooManyJens: Haha, thanks :) I’ll be honest: I refreshed the BJ site a handful of times, waiting for one of the rotating taglines to give me inspiration, lol
Randinho
@Alison: Thank you Alison. You did the heavy lifting!
Alison
@Randinho: It was tough, man. :P
BGinCHI
Thanks Alison. I was begging for that last night (or the night before).
Randy, what does the winner get??
Randinho
The only thing I can offer now is bragging rights and an FC Porto sweatshirt that I discovered after buying it last year at Estadio do Dragão, that the G for grande was a teenager’s large. Maybe I can find something or think of something. We’ll see.
Alison
Winner gets to choose a commenter to ban forever. :P
Wag
tunch as a password doesn’t work
Alison
@Wag: Hmm…don’t know why? Others have joined. Are you using any caps?
Randinho
@Wag: You need an ESPN ID and once you have that and are signed in, you can sign into the group with tunch.
Splitting Image
Made my picks. All of you people who cheer for Spain and Germany will be shocked when Greece plays Ireland for the title and I win the bracket.
Unlimited corporate cash!
Wag
@Randinho:
ah, Grazie!
J.W. Hamner
Picked chalk mostly… though I’m not even sure what counts as “chalk” in Group A exactly.
Went with Germany over the Dutch in some sort of awkward and painful WWII metaphor.
Randinho
@Wag: Niente!
Mr Stagger Lee
Deutschland Deutschland uber alles!!!
J. Michael Neal
Germany over the Netherlands in the final.
J. Michael Neal
@Splitting Image: By the time this tournament is over, Germany will own Greece.
CW in LA
@Yutsano: Questo, tuttamente!
pete
OK, I’m in (as peteshan9). Voted my heart not my head. Of course that means if I win, I win huge. Because I’m not going to.
The prophet Nostradumbass
There are now 31 entries in the pool, cool!