U.S. Soccer Needs Some Balls

Lately, Anthony and I have been taking shots at US Soccer in the wake of their embarrassing showings versus Italy and Brazil in the Confederations Cup. Not exactly the World Cup, but it’s still a stage for the U.S. to match up against the very best International teams in the world.

Personally, I had assumed that the US was eliminated from the event until I read the wrap up from the Egypt match which stated that the U.S. had moved on out of the group stage after an unlikely scenario arose where the U.S. beat Egypt by 3 or more (US 3 – Egypt 0) and Italy lost to Brazil by 3 or more (Brazil 3 – Italy 0).

Noraebong Woes

Reasons why I am still a little in between on my feelings on Noraebong:

1)  My voice normally gets so raspy after drinking that there is nothing left for the singing. 

2)  My voice gets drowned up by anyone with a higher voice, so I end up just singing louder and losing more voice.

I Miss HBO

I can’t put this on my Korea blog (esp with the recent dearth of posts) but with a return trip stateside about a month and half from now, I couldn’t help but think about stuff I will hop on as soon as I get home.  One of those things will be the rest of Flight of the Conchords Season 2.

Here is a great clip from Season 1.  The best scenes usually involve Murray, the wonderfully bungling manager and I don’t usually rate the songs as my personal high points from the shows, but this love serenade to Bret’s special lady always gets me.  This scenes doubles as a “things I miss about NYC” memory too because its set with the globe at the New York World’s Fair Grounds in Queens in the background.  Enjoy.

Flight of the Conchords Ep 4 If You’re Into It

Pitch Counts Are For The Birds

“I was talking about this the other day with my Grandfather. I don’t think pitch counts are all that important. If guys just got into the right shape, and learned to pace themselves, I think they could pitch more complete games.”

And so another correspondence was begun between me and my cohort Anthony. Sports Illustrated has taken the lead of ESPN and begun posting email back and forth based articles on their website. The following link is a recent article on the effectiveness of pitch counts.

READ ARTICLE HERE