Posted on 07/08/2014 4:00:29 PM PDT by Cecily
There is always the wife & kids, or you can kick the dog.
Makes you wonder what the fans are going to be like during the final, doesn't it?
As I type this, Grant Balfour is pitching for the Rays against the Royals. Given the way he has blown opportunities to hold or save games for the Rays, it would be easy for a watches-every-game-they-play-Rays-fan (like me) to hate him. I confess I feel trepidation when he takes the mound, but hatred? There are worse things in life than losing a ball game--but you don't learn that lesson until you learn that there are far better things in eternity than winning a ball game.
P.S. Balfour just got out of the inning, leaving runners at the corners.
http://pmreddick.wordpress.com/category/sports/soccer/
Good site that compares soccer goals to: hockey, basketball, baseball and football
The mound is a dangerous place. Anyone who goes there without proper qualifications deserves what he gets.
“I’m thinking the severe drubbing the Germans gave the Brazilians will encourage angry Brazilian fans to return the drubbing on the streets, especially to loud, boastful, partying Germans.”
More likely they’ll vent on their government, which wasted a lot of money on this event that would have been better spent elsewhere.
Torschüsse macht sie nicht frei
Thanks for that link. Not quite sure if a simple approach like that is the final answer, but for sure, a 7-1 beating in soccer, at this level of play, is unheard of, and I cannot remember or imagine a drubbing like this in another sport.
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