Statistically speaking, every group of people is probably going to contain a few idiots- except, apparently, among the readers, commenters, and voters here at Avoiding the Drop. While pouring over the results of this year’s voting I often found myself thinking, “Really? You voted for him?!” Upon reflection, however, I realized that I was reacting [...]
Archive for June, 2011
The 2011 Droppie Awards: The Results
Posted in Awards, Bundesliga, English Premier League, General, La Liga, Ligue 1, MLS, The Droppies, The Football League, Whimsy, World Cup 2010 on June 7, 2011 | 9 Comments »
MLS Pick’Em – Week 13
Posted in CONCACAF Gold Cup, MLS Pick'em, USMNT, tagged Canadian National Team, Chicago Fire, Chivas USA, Colorado Rapids, Columbus Crew, D.C. United, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, Los Angeles Galaxy, New England Revolution, New York Red Bulls, Panama National Team, Philadelphia Union, Portland Timbers, Real Salt Lake, San Jose Earthquakes, Seattle Sounders, Sporting Kansas City, Toronto FC, USMNT, Vancouver Whitecaps on June 7, 2011 | 22 Comments »
Let’s start by pretending the USA/Spain game just didn’t happen. Most of our pickers got the winner right, but the final score…that’s right, we’re forgetting it. Otherwise, jjf3 saw the writing on the wall for Major League Soccer and the writing spelled D-R-A-W. He picked nearly every draw and the wins for a total of [...]
“When you get knocked down, you see what you’re made of.” – Tim Howard
Posted in USMNT, Weekend Open Thread, tagged Spain, Sunday open thread, USMNT on June 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
So that did not go well. Reactions: Grant Wahl Jen Chang Leander Schaerlaeckens Martin Rogers Ives Galarcep Stephen Bondy Frank Dell’Appa I could link more, but I think you get the general gist of things. I wish I knew what to tell you this morning other than the few things I gathered from that demolition [...]
“I’m worried about the quarrels between my players during these clasicos, which I hope don’t find their way into my dressing room.” – Vincent Del Bosque
Posted in USMNT, Weekend Open Thread, tagged Saturday open thread, Spain, USMNT on June 4, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I think if you had said to me just a short time ago that the titans of Spain would be potentially sharing pitch time with Freddy Adu, I would have said you were crazy. Yet, here we are. I am going to plea with you all to not over-react to the result from today’s match [...]
Your Weekend Preview: Pretty Sweet Internationals Edition
Posted in CONCACAF, CONCACAF Gold Cup, General, Gold Cup, Homerism, Matchday is for Homerism, MLS, USMNT, Weekend Preview, World Cup 2010 on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New England Revolution v. F.C. Dallas (Saturday) It was announced late this week that New England’s Marko Petrovic has had season-ending knee surgery- will this be enough to force the Revolution to go out and get the play-maker and/or goal scorer that they so desperately need to compete in MLS? No, it probably won’t. I’m [...]
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged Alberto Aquilani, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Bayern München, Brad Friedel, Copa Libertadores, Egyptian National Team, FC Schalke, Hans Backe, Internacional, Jens Lehmann, Leandro Damiao, Lionel Messi, Liverpool, Millwall, Miroslav Klose, MLS All-Stars, New York Red Bulls, Norwich City, South African National Team, Spy Stuff, Steve Morrison, Tottenham Hotspur, Trabzonspor on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What you missed while MI6 was swapping cupcake recipes with al-Qaeda…
The Thursday Challenge: Natural Disaster Edition
Posted in English Premier League, General, The Droppies, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on June 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
That’s right, I put together this challenge while Mother Nature was kicking ass and taking names “tornado style” just on the other side of the Connecticut River from me. Luckily I work on a laptop so it was no problem to slide it under the bed with me where it kept me company until I [...]
