OT: Hurricanes Lounge XLIV: The Previous Thread Has Been Cancelled

[HisIceness]

Schools are out for the summer. No dealing with being stuck behind school buses or school zones for 3 months!

 

[NotOpie]

Schools are out for the summer. No dealing with being stuck behind school buses or school zones for 3 months!

Counter point....parents with school age children:

 

[hockeynjune]

Counter point....parents with school age children:

Do not miss that part

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

All of Pakistan is going to combust. Losing to not just India but also USA in cricket of all things.

 

[cptjeff]

All of Pakistan is going to combust. Losing to not just India but also USA in cricket of all things.

The US has a national cricket team?

 

[DaveG]

The US has a national cricket team?

there's even college level Cricket... and West Virginia is a f***ing powerhouse at it somehow.

 

[Unsustainable]

The US has a national cricket team?

Give us a sport and we will play it, we won't even call Soccer by it's non American name, though the men's league doesn't win, our women's dominates it.

Counter point....parents with school age children:

They block up miles of traffic to drop off their crotchfruit that is too precious to ride the bus.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Give us a sport and we will play it, we won't even call Soccer by it's non American name, though the men's league doesn't win, our women's dominates it.


They block up miles of traffic to drop off their crotchfruit that is too precious to ride the bus.

Remind me how the last Women’s World Cup went.

The US has a national cricket team?

Yup. And it somehow beat a very populous country at its national sport.

 

[DaveG]

Remind me how the last Women’s World Cup went.

Gloriously considering the level of arrogance that many of the teams supporters have.

 

[WreckingCrew]

Give us a sport and we will play it, we won't even call Soccer by it's non American name, though the men's league doesn't win, our women's dominates it.

*Dominated...the rest of the world is quickly catching up, especially with how much some of them focus on politics instead of their play and teammates

They block up miles of traffic to drop off their crotchfruit that is too precious to ride the bus.

Somewhat true, but I would have had to get up at 5:30 to catch the bus in middle & high school...which isn't really practical for a kid. Also, the busses are just as bad/worse by me bc there's a few places where the bus has 3 stops each 150 ft apart and won't even turn off it's flashing lights bc they're so close together...and they'll f***ing wait for crotch goblins to get ready, leave the house, walk to the bus, get on, settle down, and have f***ing tea before they move. "Back in my day" if you weren't AT the stop, they rolled past, and as soon as your foot hit the floor, they closed the door and drove off

 

[Unsustainable]

*Dominated...the rest of the world is quickly catching up, especially with how much some of them focus on politics instead of their play and teammates

Somewhat true, but I would have had to get up at 5:30 to catch the bus in middle & high school...which isn't really practical for a kid. Also, the busses are just as bad/worse by me bc there's a few places where the bus has 3 stops each 150 ft apart and won't even turn off it's flashing lights bc they're so close together...and they'll f***ing wait for crotch goblins to get ready, leave the house, walk to the bus, get on, settle down, and have f***ing tea before they move. "Back in my day" if you weren't AT the stop, they rolled past, and as soon as your foot hit the floor, they closed the door and drove off

Schools are pretty much prisons with brighter colors anyways.

 

[WreckingCrew]

Schools are pretty much prisons with brighter colors anyways.

And much worse food

 

[Porvari]

Gloriously considering the level of arrogance that many of the teams supporters have.

Now that giant European clubs are directing a slightly less tiny fraction of their resources to their women's teams, it looks like the epicentre of the game is moving inexorably to Western Europe. Spain is already playing a different game to everyone else's, and players like Bonmatí are obviously next level.

 

[Lempo]

Remind me how the last Women’s World Cup went.

Our public broadcasting company and the press in general was asisine maximum in insisting calling it "the World Cup" (or, "the football world championships" as the events known in Finland), like they all in unison had got some massive ukase from somewhere.

People on twitter were asking the reporters, "you're talking about the women's football world championships, right", and the reporters were toeing the company line "I'm talking about the football world championships".

I don't even know if we had a goddamn team in it.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

*Dominated...the rest of the world is quickly catching up, especially with how much some of them focus on politics instead of their play and teammates

High level athletes have the ability to do both at the same time.

 

[Porvari]

High level athletes have the ability to do both at the same time.

Don't know how much North America can actually do to keep up, now that traditional futbol powerhouses (backed by the obscene amounts of petromoney sloshing around in the European game) are shifting things to second and third gear on the women's side as well.

 

[skipnjump]

there's even college level Cricket... and West Virginia is a f***ing powerhouse at it somehow.

There's a cricket park in Morrisville, NC that hosted an international tournament last year and has a number of teams

 

[DaveG]

Don't know how much North America can actually do to keep up, now that traditional futbol powerhouses (backed by the obscene amounts of petromoney sloshing around in the European game) are shifting things to second and third gear on the women's side as well.

ironically another decade+ of not winning the WWC might be what it takes to get the US to take development of talent seriously and drop this completely asinine pay for play system that really took off following the generation where I was coming up. I mean yeah, we had skills camps in the summers, but the IMG academy type stuff that now seems to be the norm wasn't a thing for anything outside of tennis, hockey (with the New England prep scene), and maybe golf when I was coming up in the mid-late 90s. You know, the cake eater rich kid sports. The commoner stuff like football, basketball, baseball, and soccer wasn't yet tarnished by that taint.

You could play scholastic and local travel team soccer in the US when I was a kid and make a pro career out of the sport if you were good enough even if your family was broke as hell. Mine wasn't but I nearly was able to do this myself if I had wanted to go that route before a serious knee injury. There was about a decade's worth of this... and then IMG and all their imitators became the norm and the entire development system in the US went crazy. On one hand the US is producing more players than ever that are capable of making the move to Europe and producing, but on the other end of things they've also cut off 90% of the possible talent pool compared to what we could do even 20 years ago. For example a guy that is almost certainly in the top 3 US non-GKs of all time and is arguably our GOAT right now, Clint Dempsey, never would have been given a chance if he were born even a decade later because of his families background.

 

[Porvari]

...

That's fascinating stuff and a really good post, thanks for taking the time to write it.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Counter point....parents with school age children:

This.

This times infinity.

 

[cptjeff]

drop this completely asinine pay for play system

In the US of profit above all else-A? Fat chance of that. Too many people making too much money off of kids sports for development ever to become more like the European system.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

 

[HisIceness]

A jet missing since 1971 was found submerged in Vermont's Lake Champlain

Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long lost jet in Lake Champlain.

apnews.com

 

[cptjeff]

A jet missing since 1971 was found submerged in Vermont's Lake Champlain

Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long lost jet in Lake Champlain.

apnews.com

It's always in the last lake you look.

 

[MinJaBen]

It's always in the last lake you look.

In this case, also the first and only lake they looked as well. It is weird that it took them that long to find it given the circumstances described in the article.