Finally, Good News
December 10th, 2009 . By: DJ Walker
I know I’m really reaching for something to be happy about here, but on the other hand, it has been a rough year.
I know I’m really reaching for something to be happy about here, but on the other hand, it has been a rough year.
If FIFA had any sense of humor at all, they’d have let Thierry Henry make the first draw.
Generally I am against introducing video replay technology to soccer . . . But
Strike One: Artificial Turf
Strike Two: I hate both these teams (soccer hate – not real life, evil, wish-you-would-die hate.)
Strike Three: Dema Kovalenko.
It’s been such a weird season. For me, too many distractions caused by my old nemesis, “Real Life” to write many columns, or for that matter, to even watch many matches. Of course I kept up with what was going on, but I felt disconnected to the team somehow. We didn’t make it to even one game at Pizza Hut Park this year. Not one.
Think of this as a public service announcement.
Again with the sparse crowd at Pizza Hut Park. It’s so quiet you can hear the hand dryers in the restrooms (this is know as hyperbole, for you literal-minded folks out there). Twenty minutes in to this game and the preceding sentence is the most interesting thing that has occurred to me. The Lovely Cid observes that Marvell Wynne has, in her words, “presence” on the field.
Don’t read this if you Tivo’d the FA Cup Semifinal
Don’t read this if you Tivo’d the Masters
I like the CBC play-by-play man, though I didn’t catch his name. He has that calm, authoritative voice that only the English can pull off just right. If he was calling the live report of the Apocalypse, you’d come away thinking “Eh, it’ll be okay”. Think of him as the Anti-Vitale, and you’ll have it about right. Though to be fair to Dick Vitale, I can’t possibly imagine this guy calling the Duke-Carolina game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.