MLS 2014 Week X Continuous PBP Thread [Multiple R]

Gamecock14 · Jun 22, 2014

Geoff

Knave · Jun 22, 2014

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KensingtonSC · Jun 22, 2014

Oy, Geoff Cameron.

Knave · Jun 22, 2014

Shit that just shouldn't ever happen.

KensingtonSC · Jun 22, 2014

Estados Unidos necessita un timeout.

sitruc · Jun 22, 2014

We're packed in...

This is going to be a long game.

BalanceUT · Jun 22, 2014

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I never got complaining about getting to school. That seems to be a more recent thing coming from our generation and generations before us joking well after the fact. Unfortunately, it seems like many upper-middle class suburban kids actually do complain now that more ride buses and stops are closer than ever. Now it's not uncommon for parents to drive kids to bus stops and either wait or watch the kid from the car. Then the kid will still complain while the parent does everything to pamper the spoiled brat. Meanwhile, plenty of other kids walk to take buses and trains to get to school everyday and others commute more than an hour because people understand the importance of education. I've watched kids and told them they better walk their asses to school or the bus stop and they better not complain because... plausible deniability.

I would sometimes walk the 2 miles when I attended public schools just because I could. I enjoyed the walk. The walk to the bus stop was close to a half mile the opposite direction. For whatever reason, I remember the bus not showing up to go home quite a few times when I began to attend a public school. Fortunately for me, this was before teachers and administrators strictly enforced students only going home the way they were permitted to go home unless they had a pass or something. I will never forget one time that I actually did walk the 2 miles in the snow on a day school was closed early. My bus didn't show up. A few of us decided to walk. I had made it to my neighborhood when the bus drove by. I slipped and fell on ice as it drove by. I can still hear the laughing.

Both of my parents grew up on farms. They worked on the farms. They went to school after tobacco, cows or whatever else needed to be done. My dad is a few years younger than my mom. He always had a bus to school (normally a relative). My mom attended a one-room school for many of her early years in school until it was burnt down by the Klan. I remember when my mom proudly showed me the remains of her school when I was a kid. I asked her how she got to school and she said, "whatever we needed to do." She walked the miles with her siblings and others and hoped someone not busy on the farm would give them a ride. She later attended a more modern school and her brother (only a year older) drove a bus. The route expanded when a late to integrate high school finally let them attend (there's a photo of her, one of her sisters and her brother walking into the school on the frontpage of a local newspaper).

My girl grew up in a rural area and has similar stories about getting to school minus the racism, but with the addition of predators and general perverts. She would have to walk to the edge of town to take a bus the rest of the way.

I won't let my kids complain about getting to school.
The bus that my mom's brother drove as a kid looked like that.

I needed to make a serious comment to calm myself more before the event.
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There was a wonderful ad that ran some time back that had a third world kid come to the US and be so amazed how great the school was while the privileged suburban white girl complained about the injustice of it all.

Knave · Jun 22, 2014

sitruc said: ↑

We're packed in...

This is going to be a long game.
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Not likely, actually ...

onefineesq · Jun 22, 2014

So Erik Palmer Brown is ready in 2018? Geez, so much for Geoff.

PTFC in KCMO · Jun 22, 2014

I feel sick

BalanceUT · Jun 22, 2014

oops… well. no need for panicked swipe at the ball leads to goal for Portugal. Well done.

ArsenalMetro · Jun 22, 2014

Well then.

PhillyMLS · Jun 22, 2014

PTFC in KCMO said: ↑

I feel sick
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Strangely I'm settled now. I now expect us to play like shit and lose since we are behind so I'm good.

Knave · Jun 22, 2014

This is the shit I'm sick of ...

#USMNT has conceded seven goals in the first five minutes of #WorldCup games, most by any team in WC history.
— Paul Carr (@PaulCarr) June 22, 2014

ArsenalMetro · Jun 22, 2014

Fabian Johnson is always faster than I think he is.

KensingtonSC · Jun 22, 2014

Great ball to and play by Fabian Johnson.

PTFC in KCMO · Jun 22, 2014

That's better.

willydonc · Jun 22, 2014

I just tuned in. Not liking a maybe not 90 minutes fit Dempsey alone on top. I would have put both Johannson and Wondolowski at forward and left Clint on the bench to sub for the weaker of the two anywhere from 30-60 minutes.

Knave · Jun 22, 2014

PhillyMLS said: ↑

Strangely I'm settled now. I now expect us to play like shit and lose since we are behind so I'm good.
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Yeah, this pretty much.

But I'm not settled.

I'm pissed.

GreatGonzo · Jun 22, 2014

Look on the bright side - at least that happened early instead of the 89th minute.

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Knave · Jun 22, 2014

GreatGonzo said: ↑

Look on the bright side - at least that happened early instead of the 89th minute.

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Right. It'll be something worse in minute 89.

ArsenalMetro · Jun 22, 2014

Mmmm yellow card?

KensingtonSC · Jun 22, 2014

Falta!

Johnson looks good early.

PTFC in KCMO · Jun 22, 2014

I heart Jermaine Jones.

PTFC in KCMO · Jun 22, 2014

Deuce almost got it