Gatorfreude Women's College World Series Open Comment Thread
by T Kyle King on Jun 7, 2011 7:45 PM EDT
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PrintMy personal preference, obviously, would be to root for the Georgia Bulldogs to win, but, since no Georgia teams are in action today, my second choice would be to watch the Florida Gators lose, which, in fact, the Sunshine State Saurians did in absolutely spectacular fashion last night.
I am sure there are Orange and Blue partisans who would claim my Gatorfreude is a case of sour grapes. It is not; the Georgia softball team swept Florida during the regular season this year and eliminated the Saurians from last year's Women's College World Series. However, I like seeing Florida lose, and I want the Bulldogs to be the first SEC team to win a Women's College World Series, so I am rooting for the Arizona St. Sun Devils to defeat the Gators in tonight's WCWS finals, which get underway at 8:00 on ESPN2.
Join in the fun, won't you?
Go 'Dawgs!
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I mentioned this in a previous thread, but just in case you didn't see it...
… the USA’s opening Gold Cup match also starts at 8:00. Looks like I’ll be flipping between channels!
Go USA!
Go Sun Devils!
America **** yeah!
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Jun 7, 2011 7:53 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
What is it with obscene finger gestures at Dawg Sports lately?
First, there was Jack Nicholson flipping the bird, now there’s an ASU co-ed showing off the shocker!
Go 'Dawgs!
The USA-Canada game will have a delayed start...
… due to the crazy-ass Panama-Guadeloupe game being played before it on the same field.
Guadeloupe really brought the troll-challenges tonight, taking two Panamanians completely out of the game and earning one red card and a penalty that should have been another red card (but was only a yellow).
At this point, I’m hearing that it looks like the US game will start around 8:20 or 8:30.
So come on Sun Devils! Skin the Gators!
(I hate Florida.)
Dang, I'd almost forgotten how much I hate that ******* gator chomp.
I hate Florida. I hate everything about Florida. Nothing about me and Florida could ever work together even on a professional level.
Florida sucks. The Gator Chomp can burn in hell.
I hate Florida.
I think this is one of the reasons I don't like women's soccer as much anymore, in fact.
The biggest star of our team is Abby Wambach… a Florida Gator. In order to win at the top level, she needs to score at least every other game, and I like it far too much when she has a bad game.
On top of which...
The Gator Chomp isn’t even anatomically consistent with the way an alligator’s jaw works.
And yes I am a giant nerd.
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Jun 7, 2011 8:09 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Well what do you know...
… we get a referee who’s not from Mexico, and all of a sudden obvious fouls against us start finally getting called!
What are the odds?
Jermaine Jones is useless.
As I said on Saturday, it’s just our luck that we get the German who’s sloppy and inefficient.
Some amazing chances in front of goal early for the US...
… but still no joy. Scoreless in the 10th minute.
If we keep hammering it like we have been
We’ll get one soon.
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Jun 7, 2011 8:21 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
That's always been our problem with the lesser teams in CONCACAF.
Based on the run of play, we look like we should be winning every game by at least 4 goals. We can’t finish to save our lives, though. We always win 1-0 or lose 1-0 on a cheap counterattack goal.
Carlos Bocanegra with a redirect opportunity in to a basically empty net...
… and he does his usual bang-up* job.
Still scoreless, 13th minute.
* – “bang-up” = “screw-up”
Goooooooooooooal!
JOZY!
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Jun 7, 2011 8:23 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
GOAL Jozy Altidore!
Great shot, but a horrible blunder by the Canadian keeper, who should have had it.
USA up 1-0!
And now we fall into the friggin' age-old trap we ALWAYS DO:
We score to go up one goal and then drop back into a defensive posture that NEVER WORKS FOR THE WHOLE GAME.
Be aggressive, dang it. The aggressiveness got us the first goal… keep pushing until we’re up by 5! Then drop back and play defense. A one goal lead ain’t nothin.
The Gators are up 1-0 on the Sun Devils.
I ain’t turning the channel back until someone tells me the Gators aren’t winning anymore. (Or halftime of the soccer game.) I don’t need to watch the Gators win something again.
The Gators aren't winning anymore.
It’s tied, 1-1. Arizona State has the bases loaded with no one out.
Go 'Dawgs!
Cherundolo with a truly impressive level of fail
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Jun 7, 2011 8:32 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Yeah...
… but in all fairness, it was a really nice give and go between him and Donovan. As usual… great moves, no finish.
I’m practically screaming BE AGGRESSIVE DAMMIT at my TV. This really grinds my gears.
I noticed you used the plural.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
The Sun Princesses of Darkness skewer the Gators!
3-1 currently.
I say stick a fork in the Gators… they’re done.
And THAT'S why you don't stop being aggressive after one ****** goal.
After being dominated for 30+ minutes, Canada’s Dewayne DeRosario should have just tied the game up with an amazing one-timer shot, but it went just wide.
This Canadian goalkeeper seems to be having a lot of trouble with some relatively routine shots.
Let’s hope that continues.
Looks like the field is pretty poor, too, though. That can’t be good.
J.P. Dellacamera can be so clueless sometimes.
TV shows a large group of USA fans chanting, “We hate Canada (clap clap clap clap clap)… We hate Canada (clap clap clap clap clap)…”
Dellacamera says, “Lots of great support for Canada tonight… (realizes mistake)… and the United States.”
USA up 1-0 at halftime.
Could have been more, perhaps should have been, but that’s what happens when you stop being aggressive after you score just one ****** goal.
Wait...
… did the announcer just say that the Florida second baseman had time to “sit and spin?”
I like this announcing team.
(I hate Florida.)
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Is that the same cheerleader from the picture you previously posted, . . .
. . . or do they all look like that at Arizona State?
And by “like that,” I mean “hot in a skanky Penthouse-not-Playboy sort of way”?
Go 'Dawgs!
As I understand it...
… that look is known as “Arizona-State-hot.” It seems to be quite common from all the google image searches that I could do without my wife in the room.
"Wholesomely hot" is the look that works for me; e.g., . . .
. . . Kristin Davis, Helen Hunt, Kristin Kreuk, Emily Procter, Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman, etc.
Arizona State girls don’t so much skew wholesome.
Go 'Dawgs!
Agreed . . . and not just to avoid the wrath of podunkdawg.
Skanky’s not a look that works for me.
Go 'Dawgs!
see
Duke, Daisy and pretty much every female character on Dukes of Hazzard, ever.
I can bake like a demon.
Oh hell Kyle
No trailer park sex? Ever? No slidin’ the slinky thong in that little bedroom on the end? You will never make Georgia A.D.
We're the ones who fire our athletic directors for that sort of thing.
One-night stands and short-lived flings are more the style of Mike Hamilton, at least where his coaching hires were concerned.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Jun 7, 2011 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
2nd half now underway.
Looks like no halftime subs.
My guess is that Jermaine Jones gets subbed out around the 65th minute as long as Canada doesn’t score. He’s been useless.
Not trying to be political but help me understand
how there can be both of the following headlines on the same day:
1. “Obama expresses concern about slowing economy”
2. “Obama dismisses double dip recession threat”
I honestly would be asking the same question regardless of who the president is at the time. It’s either slowing and there’s a threat of recession; or it’s growing and there is no threat – it just can’t be both at the same time. Slowing yet no threat of recession seems contradictory to me.
I can bake like a demon.
I get this is Women's Softball
and not Men’s baseball, but really, do we need to wear ribbons in our hair like 5 yr olds?
I can bake like a demon.
well when i see it
i think i’m watching 5 yr olds with ribbons and bows and braids and it just bugs me.
I can bake like a demon.
Fair enough.
If that’s the price we have to pay for college softball players to maintain their youthful enthusiasm and joy for the game, though, I’m willing to tolerate it.
Go 'Dawgs!
good points
maybe i need to wear more ribbons and bows…i just get overly girly and perky (sort of like a chihuahua) from it – i’ll work on seeing youthful enthusiasm and joy for the game :)
I can bake like a demon.
In all seriousness, they do bring a strong "fun" factor to the proceedings.
The meetings in the circle, the chatter in the dugout, and Alison Owen’s omnipresent smile give a Georgia softball game a sense of genuine enjoyment.
Go 'Dawgs!
I don't know if all softball players do it, but my eight-year-old son noticed . . .
. . . that Taylor Schlopy wears silly bands on her wrists while playing softball.
Go 'Dawgs!
Taylor also has wicked eye black & I love her
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
by tankertoad on Jun 7, 2011 9:28 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Announcing team are pointing out how bad the field is.
A) You can actually see the places where the pieces of sod are separating from each other. Lots of them.
B) This sod was apparently laid just a couple of days ago… right on top of the field turf in Ford Field. LOLWUT
This is going to get somebody hurt.
Players are slipping and falling on virtually every single run on both sides of the field now.
This is like Keystone Kops.
OMG DEMPSEY
Clint Dempsey would have actually scorpion-kicked a cross into the goal there if a Canadian defender hadn’t deflected it out.
In related news, CLINT DEMPSEY IS AWESOME.
Dempsey one-timed an awesome ball that he had about 0.1 seconds to hit.
Awesome goal.
And just to tie up the ends of my parent post above, if you don’t know what a scorpion kick is, this was the first one to be televised (at least, on a worldwide stage).
Kevin James, a talking gorilla, a talking basketball, and the NBA finals.
I’m sorry, but there’s a point at which the guys in marketing just have to say “no” to a cross-promotional campaign idea.
Go 'Dawgs!
Make that three long outs.
Arizona State remains out in front by four runs heading into the fifth inning.
The Sun Succubi—-I’m sorry, but what else would you call female Sun Devils?—-need to record nine outs before allowing four runs.
Go ASU!
Go 'Dawgs!
The Sun Tzusi's?
Actually, I like the Sun Princesses of Darkness. Sun Succubi has a nice juvenile-giggle factor to it, though… I have to call it a draw. :-)
Huh-huh, huh-huh . . . he said "suck-you-by."
See “Arizona State girls are not wholesome” tangent, supra.
Go 'Dawgs!
Tim Howard made an unbelievable save.
That’s why he’s one of the best in the world, no question.
Still 2-0, USA, 71st minute (out of 90).
Thank you for the parenthetical "out of 90."
Had I been asked to hazard a guess, I’d have supposed a soccer game (match?) lasted four hours.
Go 'Dawgs!
You have to be kidding me. Sacha Kljestan is coming into the game again.
This guy must have naked photos of Bob Bradley with Osama bin Laden or something. He keeps getting playing time for the national team, and he’s OMGHORRIBLE at the international soccer level.
Sun Devils have two aboard with one out in the fifth.
Here’s hoping Arizona State extends its lead.
Go 'Dawgs!
ASU brings one run home, but a great play by the Gators in the outfield . . .
. . . prevents another from scoring. Dang it.
Go 'Dawgs!
Correction:
One down in the bottom of the fifth.
Florida is hitting the ball hard, though. I think that’s four straight flyouts to the warning track.
Go 'Dawgs!
TIM HOWARD IS A BAD (expletive deleted)
He just saved 2 point-blank shots on goal to preserve the shutout.
2-0 USA, 86th minute.
I'm so glad Spurs got Friedel
Now you and I can both enjoy bald American goalkeepers… albeit not at the same level performance-wise.
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Jun 7, 2011 9:53 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Friedel is about as old as Kyle (no offense, Kyle)...
… so there’s no way Tim Howard doesn’t have a step on him. In his prime, however, Friedel was the best in the world.
I think he was born the same year as my Dad...
But he’s at least consistent… which puts him at least a step up from Gomes.
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Jun 7, 2011 9:59 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Heading to the sixth inning with ASU up, 6-1.
Sun Devils need six outs before surrendering five runs.
I hope tankertoad is preparing an “Oh, no, we got Succubi’d again!” .jpeg for the occasion.
Go 'Dawgs!
USA wins 2-0.
Overall, good win for the U.S., and Howard made his usual miracle save to keep the clean sheet. This level of play will be good enough to get us through the group stage, but we’re going to have to play far, far better to beat Mexico.
That was a massive shot, too.
Can’t you just imagine how soul-crushing it was for the Gators team to see that huge shot?
I love it.
(I hate Florida.)
by vineyarddawg on Jun 7, 2011 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice HR by the Princesses of Darkness!
She honored the troops in the last row of the outfield bleachers by hitting a home run to them!
Big deal.
If she really wanted to honor the servicemen, she’d have sent ’em one of those skanky ASU cheerleaders!
Go 'Dawgs!
Present for duty sir.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
by tankertoad on Jun 7, 2011 10:40 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
Walked her.
Hopefully, that sets up the double play.
Nasty changeup for strike two, though.
Go 'Dawgs!
ASU pitcher is starting to have control issues.
I don’t believe I’d send her out to pitch the seventh.
Go 'Dawgs!
Dang it.
Walked another one.
I’d make a change now, with two on and two out. You don’t want to give Florida any chance to claw its way back into this one.
Go 'Dawgs!
Exactly.
Don’t give them even one reason to start doing that stupid chomp.
by vineyarddawg on Jun 7, 2011 10:16 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Heading to the bottom of the seventh.
Arizona State still up, 7-1.
Three outs to go. Come on, Sun Succubi!
Go 'Dawgs!
By the way, what is the deal with the Burger King commercial that plays Ravel's "Bolero"?
That song makes me want Bo Derek, not fries with that.
Go 'Dawgs!
Yes, but if you grease Bo Derek up with lotion and let her sit out in the sun for a couple of hours...
… ok, well, I got nothin’. I generally don’t like Burger King anyway.
by vineyarddawg on Jun 7, 2011 10:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Base hit after fouling off a zillion pitches.
Not a good start.
Come on, Sun Succubi. Double play here.
Go 'Dawgs!
This pitcher definitely looks like she's getting tired to me.
They said she’d thrown every pitch of ever postseason game for ASU thus far.
What, they don’t have any other players who can pitch?
by vineyarddawg on Jun 7, 2011 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't care who you are, . . .
. . . rally caps look stupid on you.
That goes double if your caps are orange and blue.
Go 'Dawgs!
Base hit makes it 7-2.
Florida scores in trash time, just like the Gators did last night.
That run is of statistical significance only.
I hope.
Go 'Dawgs!
Don't fret guys
The National Champion UF Women’s tennis team is throwing a bitcheous welcome home party for the softball girls in G-ville. Grey Goose, brewskies and nary a shattered soul. Come on September!
I hope everyone has a roaring good time!
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow Satan may arrive in Gainesville to claim however many immortal souls he was promised by Jeremy Foley 21 years ago!
Seriously, there’s no other way to explain it.
Go 'Dawgs!
That would explain a lot about how my life has been going.
Do you have a number for Daniel Webster? How good are you? Do you represent …. Oh hell.
Boy, that'd be a tough call, choosing between the Devil and a Gator fan! :)
It reminds me of the bumper sticker I saw on an Alabama fan’s vehicle that read: “If you see me wearing a turban, it means Auburn is playing Al-Qaeda!” :)
Go 'Dawgs!
That shouldn't be funny - yet it is .
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
by tankertoad on Jun 8, 2011 1:53 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
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