Tag: sports

Yeah, We’re Back

The team closed out last season fairly strong despite finishing in the middle of the table. Among other things, we beat the team that was in top place and thereby gave the title to the team that had been in second. I finally scored for the first time in the spring half of the season, hitting a rocket that went from the top of the box to the upper corner and gave the keeper no chance to save it. Not a top ten all-time goal, but definitely in the top 25. More importantly, since scoring isn’t my primary job anymore, I picked up three assists in the last game and the season-ending league tournament; the family showed up strong in the latter, as we literally contributed all of the team’s goals except three, and we had assists on those three.

My objective for the season was to run more and help out the attack more in addition to my primary responsibility for protecting our weakest defender. I mostly managed to do that all season, and even managed to close it out injury-free for the first time in four years. I started every game but one, but I played a bit less in the second half than before, so my minutes being down a bit may have helped me stay healthy.

I don’t know why our captain decided to get an early start this summer, as it’s usually late August when we start practicing for the new season. Perhaps he was inspired by the Euros and was itching to get back to action, I don’t know. In any event, we had our first practice tonight in a blistering heat, and although everyone’s touch was a bit off, I was pleased to discover that I’m definitely not done yet. My team won 9-3 and I contributed three of the goals, although I did put one mid-range shot wide and lazily lost my man once in a way that cost us a goal.

At my age, every new season and every new return from injury raises the question: can I still do this? After all, I’m 27 years older than my youngest teammate and one of the three oldest players in the league. So, it’s very satisfying to know that this season, at least, won’t be a problem. One thing I like about soccer is that it’s very binary. You can either do it or you can’t, and everyone knows it. You don’t have to be the star, but you do have to do your job or the team will suffer.

One thing that was kind of funny was that right before the last game, the captain told me to spread the ball around more, because the previous two games I’d tended to pass almost exclusively to our star striker. Which was fair criticism; I usually look to give either the one striker or the Magician the ball, and the Magician had missed both games. So, the game starts, I get the ball almost immediately, go down the right side, and send in a cross to the striker, who heads it emphatically home. 1-0, and I turn to the captain and spread my hands in a “hey, what was I supposed to do” gesture. He just shook his head and laughed.

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Why the Media Hates Aaron Rodgers

The man doesn’t merely throw bombs, he drops them in public:

How many Jeffrey Epstein type people are out there? And who is pulling the strings on that? Ghislaine Maxwell has a lot of ties to the Mossad. That would make sense. I mean Jeffrey didn’t seem to get some of the appointments based on merit, someone was putting him in the right spots. I don’t think he’s the only one. I think there is a weird bizarre problem that has a sex component with the elites. There’s a pedophile component to it as well which is really sick…

I would like that to be exposed. Jeffrey Epstein had the goods on everybody. There’s a lot of people that didn’t want him to be alive. The wild story around multiple people being asleep, him not being watched at the time. I just don’t believe in that many coincidences.

The Ghislaine Maxwell trial had next to no coverage. Trafficked to nobody. She is indicted for trafficking kids and nobody who she was trafficking kids to got indicted or named. And all the files still haven’t been released. Super prominent names on the flight log. I’ve seen some interesting things. Been around some interesting parties and gatherings that are strange. Not anything like Diddy party. Even at an Oscar party seeing how some of these people act, a little strange. Parties within the party that always kind of weirded me out a little bit. Getting into conspiracy stuff.

Then you know about secret society stuff the Bohemian Grove. The secrecy around that. That’s not the only secret society. The Skull and Bones at Yale which has produced all those Presidents. And the Freemasonry at its highest level. There is a sexual component to a lot of that. Obviously with Epstein, it was blackmail to get them to do what they want.

How many people are compromised by that that are in positions of power today? You are naive to think it’s none.

It’s a lot. No wonder even the sportswriters are always looking for ways to bring him down and to play up how he takes crazy drugs in the desert, while ignoring everything he says, even when doing so leads directly to their own demise.

It’s easy to see who belongs to Clown World and who doesn’t. Because athletes become successful almost entirely through their own talent and efforts, they aren’t as easily controlled by Clown World as the actors and writers, who can be manufactured and then controlled. And, if necessary, protected when their wrongdoings come to light, as we’re currently witnessing in the case of Neil Gaiman.

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Reject the Olympics

And all its wicked pomps. But, as Owen Benjamin observers, the Christian Right is always more interested in complaining about what the wicked do than they are in either eliminating the wickedness or establishing an alternative to it.

Christians are targeted for mockery with the Olympics because marketing research says they’ll tweet about it with outrage but still watch. Which means free advertisement with no drop in viewers. In fact more will probably tune in to join in on the rage.

It’s actually smart. Most other demographics would then not watch. White Christian’s will not only watch but send it to everyone they know with a “we are under attack” or “disgusting.” As they watch and share. And when the Christian’s share all of these clips but never share local community projects or anything inspiring, the people that enjoy seeing Christianity mocked because of their upbringing will see it and remember to watch the Olympics.

Hope that helps! And you can pretend that I’m attacking Christianity but I’m not, just telling you the truth as to why corporations and politicians love to troll you. They just had an obese woman as Jesus in the last supper and a bunch of trans as apostles. And every right wing grifter is promoting it furiously.

Well, that’s one reason Christians are targeted for mockery. The other, more important reason is because Clown World is quite literally satanic, the people who produce big Clown World events like the Olympics, the Oscars, the Grammys, and the Gotthard Tunnel opening ceremony are satanic servants of Clown World, and the events are used as part of their “revelation of the method” rituals, which is why the 2012 London Olympics hinted at the 2020 pandemic and why the “white rider” that appeared riding over the waters of the Seine likely presages a future depopulation program.

Don’t complain about these things. Just recognize them for what they are and turn them off. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with the sports themselves. But at the very least, skip the opening and closing ceremonies. Let them wallow in their filth. We focus on the Good, the Beautiful, and the True.

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Che Cosa?

We knew the Azzurri were mediocre, but we didn’t know they were this bad.

Switzerland 2, Italy 0

Both Swiss goals were quality. And the Swiss back 5 were excellent. But the combination of Scamacca for the Italians and Embolo for the Swiss may have been the worst pair of opposing strikers that I’ve ever seen at this level.

I sent a text to one of my Italian friends, asking what’s up with the Azzurri. His response was six – no less than six – facepalms.

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RIP Willie Mays

Willie Mays was a genus of one. He was a bolt of lightning, a game-changing force of athleticism and beauty on the diamond that snapped you to attention. There is no second strike of his kind of lightning. The likes of Willie Mays were seen never before and will never be seen again. Mays passed away at age 93 Tuesday, just two days before he and his fellow Negro Leaguers are to be honored at a game between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals at Rickwood Field. Opened Aug. 18, 1910, Rickwood is the oldest ballpark in America. It is the Mother Church of baseball. It is the cradle of the career of the greatest all-around player who ever lived. And now it is where we say goodbye.

Willie Mays haunted my teen years. Not because I watched baseball, but because my younger brother loved a song called “Say Hey Willie” that was sung by some little kid. No sooner did we get into our Oldsmobile station wagon – the white one with the fake wood panels – than he would start calling “Willie, Willie!” And so we’d have to listen to it three or four times every time we got in the car to go anywhere.

Total nightmare. But I did read up on Willie Mays as a result of wondering why there was this song about a baseball player, so it wasn’t a total loss. Requiescat in pace Willie.

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RIP The Logo

Jerry West, one of the most important figures in the history of the NBA, has passed away at the age of 86. West, the inspiration for the silhouette of the league’s logo, was a 14-time All-Star during his playing career with the Los Angeles Lakers.

🔸1972 NBA champion
🔸1969 NBA Finals MVP
🔸14x All-Star
🔸12x All-NBA Team
🔸5x All-Defensive Team
🔸8x NBA champion as executive

Jerry West was so well-respected by his opponents that his longtime rival Bill Russell of the Celtics paid his own way to attend West’s memorial game in LA before his retirement.

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If You Can’t Beat Them, Beat Them Up

Africans in the WNBA are literally beating up Caitlyn Clark because she is a popular sports star.

  • Chicago player appears to call Caitlin Clark a “b*tch” and then drops her away from the ball. This wasn’t a called a technical foul.
  • Angel Reese just hugged her teammate for shoving Caitlin Clark to the ground and calling her a “bitch.”
  • The WNBA player who appeared to call Caitlin Clark a “b*tch” and hammered her with a cheap shot is now liking tweets about how it was justified and she should do it again.

There is an easy solution. If Africans hate having white players in their leagues, they can simply enjoy their own segregated sports leagues. Perhaps we could call it, oh, I don’t know, something like the Negro Women’s Basketball League?

It’s a good thing for Livvy Dunn that gymnastics isn’t a contact sport. Caitlyn Clark isn’t even blonde or particularly attractive. And apparently, the men want their own Negro league too.

In December, former NBA guard and thug Gilbert Arenas encouraged black players on his podcast to “take out” white players on the court because they were coming for “our league.” Since then, Pistons’ forward Isaiah Stewart punched Suns’ forward Drew Eubanks during a confrontation before the teams’ match-up in February, Draymond Green struck Jusuf Nurkic in the face, and stomped on the chest of Kings’ guard Domantas Sabonis during a game.

It’s always informative how the white people who can spot racism in their fellow white people more easily than a shark scents blood in the water never seem to be able to detect this undisguised race-based hatred.

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Real Madrid 2, Borussia Dortmund 0

The Champion’s League final was over at halftime, as Dortmund had failed to capitalize on its three chances in the first half. When you’re playing a team as good as Real Madrid, you have to make the most of all your opportunities, because you’re just not going to get very many over the course of 90 minutes.

I thought the Dortmund defense simply ran out of gas in the end, first giving up one lazy goal on what should have been an unnecessary corner, followed by a horrific backpass that went right to Vinicius Junior at the top of the Dortmund area and would have been unacceptable at the scuola calcio level. And the goal that would have made it a game at the end was correctly ruled offside.

While it’s fun to see a new team make it to the final, there is a reason it’s usually the most-expensive, top-quality teams meeting there.

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Free Speech is Forced Speech

Forced speech is the end game of Clown World’s so-called “free speech”:

Professional footballer Mohamed Camara, who plays for AS Monaco in France, has been benched for the next four matches for refusing to take part in an anti-homophobia campaign, the French League (LFP) announced on Thursday.

During a Ligue 1 match against Nantes on May 19, the jerseys of Monaco’s players featured a logo to mark the World Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. However, 24-year-old Camara, a Mali national, chose not to support the LFP campaign and used white tape to cover the logo on his uniform and refused to join his team for a photograph.

The match, which was the final game of the season, ended 4-0 in favor of Monaco, with Camara scoring from the penalty spot. After the match, the footballer was referred to the LFP for disciplinary action.

“After hearing the player Mohamed Camara, and noting his refusal during the meeting to carry out one or more actions to raise awareness of the fight against homophobia, the commission decided to impose a four-match suspension,” the LFP said.

Silence is not enough for Clown World. Its social justice warriors always demand complete submission and compliance, which is what convergence means. This is why it’s absolutely necessary to stop trying to be nice, inclusive, and more responsive to the purported “feelings” of others than to the truth. Give the clowns an inch and they will view it as both a confession of weakness and an invitation to take a mile.

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RIP Bill Walton

Bill Walton, a two-time NBA champ and Hall of Famer who later became a legendary announcer, died Monday after a battle with cancer, the NBA announced. He was 71 years old. Walton won two national championships under John Wooden at UCLA and was the No. 1 overall pick by the Potland Trail Blazers in the 1974 NBA draft. He led Portland to a NBA title in 1977 and was later the sixth man for the 1986 Boston Celtics team that won the championship.

If you weren’t an 80’s basketball fan, you’d have to read the chapter of Bill Simmons’s book on basketball devoted to his pilgrimage to Bill Walton’s house and subsequent interview of the man to understand what a unique athlete, and unique individual, he was.

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