Topic: WE LIKE SPORTS (Read 580631 times)

est · « **Reply #950 on:** 27 May 2010, 16:26 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 08 May 2010, 11:48

Leeds were promoted to the Championship after beating Bristol Rovers today.

I hear that your boys have signed Kasper Schmeichel now. Pretty good buy, I reckon.

This business with Cesc maybe going to Barca maybe not is really frustrating. Barca have always been a bunch of assholes when it comes to how they act during a transfer period, but this season is especially bad.

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #951 on:** 27 May 2010, 16:42 »

It's not really just Barca acting like dicks but the way the media goes into a frenzy any time a transfer is even remotely possible and when it's basically a free for all between seasons they can't get enough. Barca have a lot of money and a great reputation with being one of the world's best club teams so there's always going to be stories surrounding them and considering Fabregas was brought up in their youth system and Arsenal are looking shaky without him once more it's really not surprising that this story has happened once again.

At least Barca don't act like Real Madrid though, buying any player they like then throwing them out like pieces of shit when they don't win anything because they have a dismal defence and won't buy any defenders to shore it up. Seeing as Mourinho is pretty much there though they will likely have to buy a couple after the world cup.

Spluff · « **Reply #952 on:** 29 May 2010, 01:29 »

YELLOW AND BLACK

KaosPilot · « **Reply #953 on:** 01 Jun 2010, 03:03 »

World Cup, World Cup, World Cup, World Cup.

I'm excited.

Looking forward to hearing Capello's 23 man squad at some point today and I'll be backing England during the tournament but think either Brazil or Spain will win it.

Is anyone else excited about the WORLD CUP?

Darke · « **Reply #954 on:** 01 Jun 2010, 03:32 »

Hells yes. I've always liked Spain since I was a wee boy and thought their strips looked cool, so I'll be supporting them. Win or lose I'm sure they'll play some damn nice football.

KaosPilot · « **Reply #955 on:** 01 Jun 2010, 05:19 »

Spain were my team during the Euro 2008 cup when Scotland failed to qualify. I only wish I'd put more than £5 on them to win! Bought their strip yesterday as I'm also a fan of their kit.

I'll be cheering England, and to a lesser extent Spain although if they play each other I will back England to the hilt.

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #956 on:** 01 Jun 2010, 06:04 »

I am completely cynical and will not be supporting England because why would I support a team that contains players that I hate during the regular season?

But other than that WORLD CUP, WORLD CUP, WORLD CUP!!!

I am excited for it because regardless of support who doesn't like watching the best players in the world playing on the same pitch?

KaosPilot · « **Reply #957 on:** 01 Jun 2010, 06:36 »

That is a very good point about the best players in the World. I am expecting cracking goals, amazing saves and lots of nail biting!

Inlander · « **Reply #958 on:** 01 Jun 2010, 06:42 »

I'm expecting lots of skied shots and corners going way over everybody's heads because the designers of the Official Ball of the World Cup have sprinkled the balls with fairy dust to make them do magical corkscrews in flight like no other ball has ever done before it or some other dickery just like at the last World Cup.

Also Australia was the first team to South Africa! If this was the Amazing Race we'd already be world champions!

est · « **Reply #959 on:** 01 Jun 2010, 18:50 »

Quote from: the_pied_piper on 27 May 2010, 16:42

It's not really just Barca acting like dicks but the way the media goes into a frenzy any time a transfer is even remotely possible and when it's basically a free for all between seasons they can't get enough. Barca have a lot of money and a great reputation with being one of the world's best club teams so there's always going to be stories surrounding them and considering Fabregas was brought up in their youth system and Arsenal are looking shaky without him once more it's really not surprising that this story has happened once again.

Yeah I can agree with all of that, but it is like a constant barrage of the club managers being dipshits because the club president is embarrassed over letting him go, their players being dipshits coming out and saying things like "oh, he is here for sure" or "he would fit in really well here" or "oh man, I can't wait to give him that first post-game handjob" or somesuch and the team manager saying "oh, we're not gonna pay too much for him". And then there's Arsenal on the other end saying "hey uh, we don't even have a fucking bid for him yet, what's going on?"

It's all bullshit mind games to drive his price down by trying to make it a done deal before the bid is even in. The problem is that it's so goddamned blatant that everyone involved can see that that is what they are doing, and people are getting the shits to the point where maybe Wenger's gonna stamp his foot and say "no, this isn't gonna happen", and if that's the case he may as well just use Cesc as a waterboy or a benchwarmer or someshit next season for all the good he'll do us in the state he'll be in.

scarred · « **Reply #960 on:** 03 Jun 2010, 00:32 »

The worst call in the history of baseball. Heartbreaking.

Ptommydski · « **Reply #961 on:** 03 Jun 2010, 11:48 »

Fabregas is worth £60m minimum and I'd probably say a fairer fee would be £70-80m.

If they pay less than that, it's literally the deal of a lifetime. Practically theft considering the age and form of the playing they would be getting.

est · « **Reply #962 on:** 03 Jun 2010, 23:58 »

Word on the street (blogs) is that they offered £29 mil maybe plus someone, but not sure what to make of that. The response from Arsenal was pretty great.

Quote from: Arsenal.com

Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas is under contract with the Club until the summer of 2015. He is a highly-valued member of the team and part of our future plans.

We have followed recent speculation linking Cesc with a move away from the Club but as there has never been any official approach for him, only two informal exchanges, in which we made it abundantly clear that we have no interest in transferring Cesc, we have refrained from publicly passing comment. However, yesterday evening we received an offer from Barcelona for Cesc and in response, we immediately and resolutely told them once again that we have no intention of selling our captain.

To be clear, we will not make any kind of counterproposal or enter into any discussion. Barcelona have publicly stated that they will respect our position and we expect that they will keep their word.

Whether this is a flat "NO" or a very strong bargaining position is up for debate, but it is definitely The Way To Do It.

Thomas Edison · « **Reply #963 on:** 06 Jun 2010, 01:33 »

Live stream of Sussex Thunder versus Farnham Knights (maybe if it works)

Stream should start at 1:30PM(GMT), game kicks off at 2:30PM.

valley_parade · « **Reply #964 on:** 06 Jun 2010, 06:31 »

Ryan it would have helped if I knew which number you wore.

Liz · « **Reply #965 on:** 06 Jun 2010, 06:44 »

Numbers wouldn't even help, they're all so leetle.

EDIT: He's #55 if you still want it.

Alex C · « **Reply #966 on:** 06 Jun 2010, 19:01 »

Holy shit, Ray Allen.

scarred · « **Reply #967 on:** 06 Jun 2010, 20:40 »

yay blackhawks

Darke · « **Reply #968 on:** 11 Jun 2010, 05:22 »

It is WORLD CUP DAY!

Man I love a World Cup. Can't wait to see Spain in action again as they play truly wonderful football, and I'm very eager to see if Argentina can actually gel as a team, because if they do they could be unstoppable.

Also I will never stop laughing if the USA beat England tomorrow. Make it happen, America.

Inlander · « **Reply #969 on:** 11 Jun 2010, 07:05 »

http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,24833.0.html

Alex C · « **Reply #970 on:** 15 Jun 2010, 17:30 »

I want the Celtics to beat the Lakers so bad. Mostly because I have a friend who's an LA fan who insists that the Lakers shoulda/woulda/coulda won in 2008 if it weren't for Andrew Bynum being injured. There should be a law that says you can't play the "Everyone knows they were the best team that year," card when said team rolled over in a game 6 clincher and lost by 39 points.

scarred · « **Reply #971 on:** 15 Jun 2010, 17:49 »

fuck the lakers

Alex C · « **Reply #972 on:** 17 Jun 2010, 21:50 »

Another ring for Bryant, yet he crapped the bed so thoroughly that hopefully he set back those "No, really, he had just as good a career as Jordan!!" idiots another 5 years.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #973 on:** 17 Jun 2010, 23:05 »

fuuuuuuuuuck the lakersssss

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #974 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 00:46 »

... so, what's wrong with the Lakers? Undeserved victory or something?

Alex C · « **Reply #975 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 10:30 »

Well, Kobe Bryant calls himself the Black Mamba, for one thing. I hate it when people try to nickname themselves.

scarred · « **Reply #976 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 16:48 »

they're all insanely douchey and their fans are annoying to excess.

they're essentially the new england patriots of basketball.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #977 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 19:39 »

This is stating the obvious but they basically encapsulate everything about L.A. that makes it the sweaty choad of the universe

Aurjay · « **Reply #978 on:** 19 Jun 2010, 11:01 »

USA was robbed... Plain and simple. There was no one offside and if anything the American players were being fouled. No idea what the ref saw and by him being completely silent about the call i'm sure he doesn't know either. Yes we should have never even let them score 2 goals and have the game decided by a bad call but it did and it sucks. If we don't make it out of the group stages im gonna be pissed. Granted England is playing like crap so it looks good we will advance. i still hate it being so close.

Patrick · « **Reply #979 on:** 19 Jun 2010, 11:51 »

Quote from: Aurjay on 19 Jun 2010, 11:01

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Jimor · « **Reply #980 on:** 19 Jun 2010, 16:35 »

Manute Bol passed away at 47.

Alex C · « **Reply #981 on:** 19 Jun 2010, 17:08 »

I always thought it was kinda shitty how so many people would make fun of the guy for some of the ridiculous events he's been a part of, considering the fact that he always funneled that money back to charities. It really shouldn't take a 7'7" guy who's never ridden a horse to start jockeying as a stunt just to get people to donate peanuts to Darfur.

Aurjay · « **Reply #982 on:** 20 Jun 2010, 06:14 »

Quote from: Patrick on 19 Jun 2010, 11:51

Quote from: Aurjay on 19 Jun 2010, 11:01
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BeoPuppy · « **Reply #983 on:** 20 Jun 2010, 18:09 »

Quote from: scarred on 18 Jun 2010, 16:48

they're all insanely douchey and their fans are annoying to excess.

they're essentially the new england patriots of basketball.

... I like the Pats ...

scarred · « **Reply #984 on:** 20 Jun 2010, 18:50 »

WELL YOU AND ALL YR PETS SHOULD DIE

but srsly, one of my best friends is a pats fan, so there's obvsly exceptions. it's broad stereotyping. for instance i am a bears fan, and we put up with this:

it's all in good fun.

but yeah as a pats fan you should probably be aware that the only team anybody hates more than you is the cowboys. just sayin'

David_Dovey · « **Reply #985 on:** 20 Jun 2010, 20:21 »

DAH BEARZ

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #986 on:** 22 Jun 2010, 05:21 »

Well, being in the Netherlands makes it easier to dodge the scorn of irate football fans. So, that helps.

Also, as a Bears fan, you haven't had the best couple of seasons recently so, you know ... /hug.

scarred · « **Reply #987 on:** 22 Jun 2010, 08:58 »

thanks. i'm kind of excited for this year actually, because unless we make a playoff run (we won't) lovie won't come back. it'd be nice to not have keanu reeves as our head coach...

fuck i'll be happy if martz can train jay cutler into completing passes to our team for a change. our defense is in a rebuilding year, too - even with urlacher back and the addition of julius peppers, we have shit and/or rookie corners and lovie's "cover who" strategy. zzzz

if it's not obvious, i want it to be football season very badly.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #988 on:** 22 Jun 2010, 13:28 »

Seconded.

And I hope Urlacher stays healthy for a bit. Last year's injury was just ... sad.

scarred · « **Reply #989 on:** 22 Jun 2010, 14:10 »

and/or upsettingly ordinary.

if brian urlacher's gonna be out for the whole season he'd better be an amputee or something, fer srs.

Alex C · « **Reply #990 on:** 22 Jun 2010, 15:23 »

Sometimes I think he's just too rangy to be as fast as he is and remain healthy the way at middle line backer-- he's like 5 inches taller than Ray Lewis but has always been listed as maybe 5 or 10 pounds heavier, tops. I mean, it's cool that he could play sideline-to-sideline as well as he did, due to being so goddam fast, but I always kinda thought he was secretly mediocre at just filling in gaps without getting clobbered by a 300 pounder. So now he's got a ton of running back type injuries from running around like a maniac and an arthritic back from getting murdered by guards. And I always sorta liked Julian Peterson better anyway.

scarred · « **Reply #991 on:** 22 Jun 2010, 22:59 »

Urlacher's definitely not the tank he used to be, and in recent years Urlacher's definitely let many ballcarriers out of his grasp. Hopefully Peppers will make our defense a little less reliant on Urlacher's less-than-stellar hole-filling ability, but Lance Briggs was always better at that anyway. Now that he can go back to his original position and we don't have to rely on the flimsy, green Nick Roach to fill the gaps, I think our secondary will be a lot stronger.

Inlander · « **Reply #992 on:** 24 Jun 2010, 09:17 »

While everyone's been distracted by the World Cup, Wimbledon has just hosted the most ridiculous game of tennis ever played. John Isner has just defeated Nicolas Mahut in five sets. The final scoreline: 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68. 70-68. SEVENTY-SIXTY-EIGHT. The game went for a shade over eleven hours, spread over two days.

Unbelievable.

(Incidentally, the Guardian Online has, as ever, a highly amusing live blog of the match, if you can summon the energy to read the entire thing. The match went for so long that it had to be live blogged in two parts: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jun/23/wimbledon-2010-tennis-live & http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jun/24/wimbledon-2010-isner-mahut-live.)

amok · « **Reply #993 on:** 24 Jun 2010, 11:54 »

The last set alone was significantly longer than every single match in Williams' title-winning Wimbledon last year put together.

evilbobthebob · « **Reply #994 on:** 24 Jun 2010, 11:57 »

My favourite moment from that match was the scoreboards all breaking when they passed 50 games apiece, because IBM didn't think that would ever happen

Alex C · « **Reply #995 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 18:09 »

I still can't believe LeBron James has a timeslot set up to announce which team he's going with. I think the universe must hate Cleveland fans or something. It's the only way any of this makes sense.

Spluff · « **Reply #996 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 21:58 »

Cleveland should just give up on sport altogether.

Ptommydski · « **Reply #997 on:** 07 Aug 2010, 03:33 »

Ah, thank fuck. New football season at last. I hope everybody is excited as I am.

Leeds had a decent preseason, despite a fairly pointless trek to Slovakia and being buried at Bury (ahem) we bounced back to thrash Hartlepool and Wolves (including this strike by the ever mercurial Max Gradel). I know preseason doesn't count for much but we've also made some decent, if inexpensive, acquisitions and the new team has both width and pace, something we were usually lacking in League One. The defence is still a little bit shaky despite having been replaced entirely but that's sort of becoming a Leeds tradition. I don't think we'll go down and realistically I can see us finishing around the top of the bottom half of the table, which would be a decent outcome for any newly promoted side.

Out - Beckford, Ankergren, Kandol, Marques.
In - Paynter, Sam, Collins, Bruce, Connolly, Schmeichal, Bessone, Watt (season long loan from Arsenal), Clayton (month long loan from Man City).

First game of the season is today at 5.15pm against Derby County. Lots of links to watch the game online will appear here later in the day. Should be entertaining!

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #998 on:** 07 Aug 2010, 08:19 »

And yet the real season starts next week.

The new regulations on squad sizes and home-grown players in the Premiership can only be a good thing, hopefully with plenty of young players being given the chance to play some games and impress as only young players can. A few teams have been caught out by these regulations, a surprising one being Blackburn Rovers, just showing the fragility of the Premiership teams and how the league needs these kinds of changes to bring it, and I guess the national team, more credulity.

As for Liverpool, this season is already starting on an iffy note, with the many speculative takeover attempts and whether there will actually be any transfer funds available even if they happen and some not very impressive pre-season performances. However, youngsters Dani Pacheco, Martin Kelly, Stephen Darby, Nathan Ecclestone, David Amoo, Thomas Ince (son of Paul), Lauri Dalla Valle and new young signings Danny Wilson and Jonjo Shelvey should all get some first team game time under "Uncle" Roy Hodgson and maybe a 4th place finish will be possible although top 6 is more likely.

valley_parade · « **Reply #999 on:** 07 Aug 2010, 09:10 »

Yeah Rob, Liverpool are going to be dreadfully mediocre again this year, deal with it.

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