Cugalabanza

Uh, this is the thread for the fight between TYTT and Turbo. If you want to flirt with Gugny, you can start a new thread called "Gugny: Here's Your Chance."

Your sentence was, "The US can't play the game to the highest levels it achieves." Makes no sense.

This is kind of a sweet tribute to the man. Someday it would look very nice on his gravestone. My only note would be to replace the word "maybe" with "oh dear god yes!"

Congratulations, you have successfully stated the obvious. Even though your sentence makes no sense (I think maybe you meant to use the word "aspires" instead of "achieves," or something like that.) Anyway, bravo.

If Laverne & Shirley never heard the word impossible, how do they even know what it is, proper usage, pronunciation, etc...? I'm calling schlemiel on that bull ****!

You're half right (I am a bastard)

That's an excellent point.

This place is bonkers

I win

Chile is a good team. I was surprised they got bounced. Agree to disagree about CONCACAF, I guess. I think 3.5 spots out of the 32 in the tournament is about right. Some not-so-great teams make it from the other regions too. Everybody can't be Germany or Brazil.

It's not all that black and white. From top to bottom, obviously uefa tops concacaf. But in the last WC, Mexico, USA and Costa Rica all made it to the knockout rounds. Costa Rica won their group (over Italy, England and Uruguay) and very nearly made it to the semis. I think Mexico and CR could do well next summer too. Honduras and (maybe) Panama, not so much.

I think that's exactly what you should do.

As a big fan of the USMNT, it's kind of like, for a Bills fan, if the Bills bombed out so bad, they were not even allowed to play in the NFL next year. So, of course you knew they weren't going to win the superbowl,...you knew they probably would miss the playoffs yet again, but you still wanted to at least get to watch them play some games. But nope. Oh, well...

Nope

Hey Gug. Obviously, the "entire U.S" is not invested in this. For the few of us that follow this, it's a big deal and it sucks.

'86 was the last time. This is just awful.

Trump hasn't kicked Mexico out of North America just yet. They take soccer pretty seriously. ...and, they showed themselves to be the class of CONCACAF once again. Plus they managed to play this last game just soft enough to help the USA get knocked out. Well done, El Tri.

I'm destroyed. Complete shame for USA soccer. !@#$ed.

I can't believe it. I'm !@#$ing heart sick. This sucks. Lots of blame to go around. Don't know what else to say. The USA program is totally lost.

And Iceland was amazing in that tournament. Of course, not as amazing as your beloved Portugal, who won the freakin' thing.

The CONMEBOL playoff will be with OFC (New Zealand). CONCACAF's playoff will be against AFC (Australia).

My understanding is that the playoff will be against a team from Asia (AFC), so it would be against Australia, two legs in November. But yeah, best not to deal with that at all. It's bad enough that the USA is now consistently the 3rd best in this region, behind Mexico and Costa Rica.

USMNT needs to not lose to Trinidad & Tobago tonight in order to take the third & final confirmed WC spot for CONCACAF. If they lose, they could slip to 4th place, which would mean a playoff situation, or to 5th which would mean elimination. Should be no problem to get the win or draw tonight, but the game's at T&T, the field is water-logged and T&T has nothing to lose. No English speaking networks are carrying the game, so I'll watch in Spanish on Universo.

I agree that Hillary's book (and most of her words & actions since the election) makes her look "bewildered, angry and confused." I happen to think that Hillary is a firecracker to Trump's nuclear arsenal on the scale of incendiary incompetence, but I guess that doesn't matter much at this point. The adult day care center is our nation as a whole. Buncha !@#$ing idiots we are. We broke it; we bought it.

Well, in George's defense, he's just trying to be very clear and precise here. He's not one for a lot of symbolism or subtlety. He wants the listener to make no mistake about the fact that when he's drinking, he literally does not want other individuals to be located in that immediate vicinity during the time that he continues to imbibe. It's as if to say, please don't interpret this as some existential statement about alienation or the disconnectedness of modern man. It's nothing like that--he's not interested in any crap like that. He just very simply does not want any mofos hanging around while he gets his swerve on. Gool old George, king of the single entendre.