I have today off from work (since I have to work 12 hours for an event we are having at my building tomorrow) so hopefully the games are good...

Go Austria...

6/16/2008 12:15:30 PM

I forgot to set my DVR for today's games.

6/16/2008 12:19:54 PM

Not the best slate of games today (Germany overwhelming favorites, Croatia with nothing to play for) but hopefully Austria can make things interesting

6/16/2008 12:25:25 PM

here we go

6/16/2008 2:36:15 PM

which game promises to be more entertaining?
Germany v. Austria
Croatia v. Poland???

6/16/2008 2:47:37 PM

i like the announcers better for pol-cro but it's not in HD

6/16/2008 2:49:25 PM

ahahahaha mario gomez, you are awful. andy gray is lettin him know about that miss. jesus he had the entire goal to shoot at from like 3 yds away

^ugh, you like tommy smyth? that guy is an idiot, i really could do without him.

[Edited on June 16, 2008 at 2:52 PM. Reason : f]

6/16/2008 2:51:21 PM

Germany-Austria should be better... they both need a certain result to survive... whereas the Croats don't...

^^ I really like Derek Rae, so I agree... but Andy Gray lays smackdowns left and right..

[Edited on June 16, 2008 at 2:51 PM. Reason : x]

6/16/2008 2:51:34 PM

how did the german striker not score in the 4''??

6/16/2008 2:53:12 PM

its gomez, he sucks...he shouldnt even be starting, he has done nothing this tourney.

6/16/2008 2:53:43 PM

gomez didn't want it to be that easy - the ball did look like it took a weird bounce but he had a second chance with the header and just kind of hung out

6/16/2008 2:54:01 PM

I was shocked Neuville wasn't in the starting 11...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQByStr7DI0

Do Germany and Austria dislike each other as countries?

[Edited on June 16, 2008 at 2:56 PM. Reason : most famous goal of the group stage last world cup?]

6/16/2008 2:54:38 PM

isnt he like 35 by now? i was surprised to his name on their roster when this tourney started

6/16/2008 2:58:58 PM

Yeah, he's older but he can still finish... There was lots of talk that he would replace Gomez...

6/16/2008 3:00:47 PM

austria are holding their own here...very nearly had a 1v1 with lehmann a second ago

6/16/2008 3:06:55 PM

nice quick shot there

6/16/2008 3:08:15 PM

these refs need to let the game go, they call everything so tight

6/16/2008 3:20:20 PM

if gomez had been insidegoalside he couldve gotten to that flick off the header

6/16/2008 3:20:40 PM

yea this germany austria match sucks with the reffing right now

6/16/2008 3:24:08 PM

the german defense looks like shit, theyre just standing around not closing-down anybody

6/16/2008 3:24:10 PM

is he serious? sending off the coaches?

6/16/2008 3:26:15 PM

I just missed what happened... coaches got sent off, or it's an until halftime thing?

6/16/2008 3:27:33 PM

what happened between the coaches?

6/16/2008 3:27:46 PM

wtf are coaches getting sent off for?

6/16/2008 3:28:19 PM

it didn't appear to be anything blatant - they weren't kicked completely out - just got downgraded on their seats it looks like

6/16/2008 3:29:04 PM

no ttheyre out, im pretty sure if you get put in the stands, you can't talk to your team or anything. It's the same thing to being tossed out of the game in baseball

6/16/2008 3:30:26 PM

after watching the highlights from the pol-cro game - it looks a lot more exciting - croatia had some really nice opportunities

6/16/2008 3:39:34 PM

austria pwnt. stay home.

6/16/2008 3:51:41 PM

Fuck you, Ballack bashers.

6/16/2008 3:51:49 PM

^ahaah where did this guy come from?

6/16/2008 3:52:45 PM

^^ really......, really?

nice goal ballack.

and the germans have been rather sloppy on D

[Edited on June 16, 2008 at 3:59 PM. Reason : ]

6/16/2008 3:54:31 PM

boring, if austria couldve finished off one of their 10 thousand crosses,they wouldve killed germany

6/16/2008 4:40:06 PM

def a boring day

6/16/2008 4:40:41 PM

def a boring tournament

6/16/2008 4:41:13 PM

did you watch the turkey game yesterday? craziest shit i've seen in a while

6/16/2008 4:49:53 PM

i gotta say, i hate hearing julie foudy talk about soccer. shes annoying as shit. Im pretty sure andy gray and tommy smyth hate her

6/16/2008 4:50:35 PM

everyone hates holding midfielders, it's not just her

6/16/2008 4:51:39 PM

roy keane is awesome though, and gattuso is kind of a funny guy

6/16/2008 4:54:27 PM

"fuck you, Klasnic bashers"

6/16/2008 4:57:47 PM

Quote :

"did you watch the turkey game yesterday? craziest shit i've seen in a while"

what are you talking about. The first half was shit. The second was better, but what pissed me off was that turkey won. They're shit and dont deserve to advance. They played shit that game and got lucky on the 2nd goal.

6/16/2008 6:18:53 PM

doesn't change the fact they overturned a 2 goal deficit in like 15 minutes -- the equalizer was a mistake by one of the best goalkeepers in the world, and it was followed up by one of the best goals in the tournament for a winner only two minutes later

how is that not entertaining as hell

6/16/2008 6:27:46 PM

^the problem being what was said earlier, that game bored me enough that i left around the 70th minute i think...maybe a bit before, it was right before turkey apparently scored. im mad i missed the great ending, but turkey were boring as hell for the first hour

6/16/2008 6:52:09 PM

well I thought the last 30 minutes was more than enough to make up for it... Czechs also had two really nice goals and one off the post that could've made it 3-0

6/16/2008 7:27:26 PM

one thing you can say for sure is you will not see anything like that game for a long time.

6/16/2008 7:41:46 PM

turkey had been coming on really strong about 15 minutes before their first goal

Quote :

"The second was better, but what pissed me off was that turkey won. They're shit and dont deserve to advance. They played shit that game and got lucky on the 2nd goal."

Most goals involve luck. I'll show you playing like shit: allowing 3 goals in 15 minutes despite having Petr Cech as your keeper.

[Edited on June 16, 2008 at 7:58 PM. Reason : words]

6/16/2008 7:57:53 PM

Quote :

"They're shit and dont deserve to advance. They played shit that game and got lucky on the 2nd goal."

it sounds like you didn't even see the game

6/17/2008 10:49:03 AM

^^^.

The announcer was joking that after the 2 goals, and then the two yellows and a red, that even a space ship could land on the field an not seem out of place.

6/17/2008 10:57:15 AM

predictions?

I'm going to go 2-1 Italy, 1-1 in the other game


Toni should've made it 1-0 early

[Edited on June 17, 2008 at 2:50 PM. Reason : .]

6/17/2008 2:49:10 PM

ribery is gone, ankle injury

6/17/2008 2:55:59 PM

damn, that is a killer for the stinky french

6/17/2008 2:56:37 PM