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With that said we still looked a little ugly on some giveaways that led to counterattacks. Against a stronger offense it might have been a different story. And at times our back four have looked a bit incapable, but I believe in JURGEN

It makes me happy to see the US beating teams by use of controlled possession and letting the ball do most of the work. It's like we almost understand the game now and possess the skills to compete!

It's time once again, my friends. Let us celebrate the journey to the globe's biggest sporting event. http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1666165/782307509.gif The ‘Catrachos’ defeated Jamaica, 2-0, last Tuesday, but in the process they have found their team in shambles heading into Tuesday’s match against the USMNT. Standouts Oscar Boniek Garcia and Maynor Figueroa are injured, stalwart centerback Victor Bernardez and starting midfielder Luis Garrido are suspended, and forward Jerry Bengtson, who scored the game-winning goal against the U.S. last February, has reportedly left the Honduran camp out of frustration with not being used in the team’s win vs. Jamaica. Throw in apparent injuries to Osman Chavez and Jerry Palacios, and you have a Honduran camp in rough shape heading to Salt Lake City for Tuesday’s showdown vs. the United States. In fact, only 15 players were available to train when the Honduran team convened for a training camp in San Jose, California on Thursday. http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/67/lmzd.png http://imageshack.us/a/img341/7383/usasoccerfans.jpg And here's an article VAMOS!

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Finding 8 random people for 28 board matches seems extremely difficult to me. Finding times to coordinate a series of 28 board matches for a group of teams across some time period seems impossible. Good luck OP! If you find yourself one player short for your matches, please resist the urge to recruit star players. None is interested, thanks!

[citation needed] "The numbers for Live-minus-30 coverage of the WSOP on ESPN are in. About a half million viewers on ESPN 2, 23 million minutes of click-friendly eyeball time on ESPN 3, and a “cute” little 646,00 viewers for two hours during prime time on ESPN 1." Zel, it's 2013. Culbertson died nearly 60 years ago, and bridge is much less a household hobby now. Just because you say that bridge is just as entertaining or marketable as chess or poker does not make it so, especially now. Close but still wrong! Poker is popular because it's watchable in a completely mindless format while hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars can swing on any given hand, even one seemingly mundane. Poker on TV is also great because the producers can edit the content into a pretty exciting 30-minute broadcast with very little lull in the action by cutting out what I assume is hundreds of hours of mind-numbingly boring folding. The exciting stuff in poker is a tiny percentage of the game, but it can still be pretty exciting even if the casual fan only understands bet, raise, fold as the only actions in any given situation. I would argue even chess is viable on TV for what gwnn said. Experts can analyze and post mortem positions for hours, explaining variations, discussing pawn structure and the value of connected rooks and strong diagonals and win equity etc etc. It might not be the most appealing entertainment, but it can be engaging to the right audience. It's certainly not exciting and it's difficult to really get passionate about, but it would certainly be informative and full of content. Contrast this with bridge where you have to be a pretty serious fan AND you have to follow the whole play of the hand to really grasp what's going on. On top of that, the analysis is often pretty anemic. "Well he has to guess the queen of clubs now. He'll probably tank for 8 minutes before he makes the play. He knows xyz about the hand, so he should get it right. The guy at the other table also got it right, so it'll be another push." Yeah, not watching that. As far as personalities go, I guess you're right that watching the cast of Jersey Shore play a high stakes money bridge match would be some amazing TV, but I assume that's not what you meant. Was Ely Culbertson or some other expert a great TV personality when bridge was popular? Well, that has nothing to do with bridge being good for television and everything to do with Culbertson being good for television. And for the record, personality isn't really as important in poker as I think you make it out to be. Yeah, it helps the ratings that they have some interesting heroes and villains, but even online poker games are well railed when the players are often anonymous and the railers can't see the hands. Watching so much money change hands so fluidly is interesting; it's really that simple. This is why I assume you're trolling, but it's so many words I guess you're serious. Poker, chess, and bridge are COMPLETELY different at the core of the games themselves. To steal a phrase from jdonn, comparing the three games isn't even apples to oranges, it's like apples to tubas. Of course the interest in poker hands themselves is less. The hands themselves are almost entirely meaningless. Poker is enjoyable for an audience even if you never see the hands! You could play poker with dice or a deck of Uno cards or colorfully painted rocks and it would still be viable for television. You're right about chess, at least, except the part about "quick draws repeated 100%". [citation needed] again. Your conclusion seems to be that all three are watchable despite your own concession that bridge needs to change before it's watchable and in the face of evidence that poker is and has been successful for television for nearly a decade.

This is so wrong I assume we're being trolled.

what didn't you understand? wank is right of course

I'm content giving up on partner having a prime perfecto with good diamonds in favor of the opponents not knowing what's going on. I think my stealing 3NT EV is greater than the EV from slam bidding or stopping on a dime in 4D or something.

Stayman and bid 3NT if no H fit

While certainly @kendrasaurusrex and @acute_delirium are two of the most influential TV critics of our time, and we must concede that game of thrones does, indeed, suck, as fluffy so accurately foretold, the frauds at Grantland wrote a pretty good review of the most recent episode.

With all the above, I concur.

This game is nuts Moro - Naka

lol carlsen lol karjakin

Oooooh Kemo Sabe

itt saskatchewan and alberta are completely indistinguishable from pretty much everywhere in the world

Using this rule I just binked this http://i.imgur.com/ucFwY3R.png

Damn, thought I recognized the location instantly. Wasn't close. fuuuuuuuu

Also, someone else wrote this better than I could. Parents giving their offspring the tools to eliminate themselves is some sort of expert meta-natural selection, right? This should be given some sort of advanced level 2 Darwin Award nomination, though admittedly there is no humor to be had from it.

I also sort of wish we lived in a society where it was acceptable to shame the parents into realizing they're unfit to raise children and have them sterilize themselves immediately.

What a disgusting article. The parents absolutely should be held responsible for the murder of their 2 year old daughter.

OK, thank you. I realize that I always slash the top, but the loaf still finds a way of deforming itself while it bakes, so maybe even something as simple as slashing it properly will improve the quality. I guess that's the sort of attention to detail that makes baking difficult for me. I'll also pick up a digital scale. Is it safe to assume that recipe can be doubled without any consequences?

I apologize for the necro, but I'm curious if some years of experience has improved anyone's technique enough to offer advice. I, too, am hopelessly bad at baking. Cakes and cookies terrify me, and I'm not much of a dessert person, so this is OK. Having said that, I jumped on the No Knead wagon and have had some great results. Specifically, I've let the dough ferment in the fridge for maybe 10-13 days, placed a boule in an oiled, 12" Lodge cast iron pan, let it rise for a couple hours, and then pressed it down to make some excellent pan pizzas. I've never had criticisms for either taste or texture. For my personal preference, the pizzas are excellent. However, when I want to make a traditional loaf I can't quite get the right balance between hard exterior and light interior. Mine end up too dense inside, even doughy sometimes. I mean, my goal is to achieve this: http://i.imgur.com/ZpyaF.jpg but my results always end up like this: http://i41.tinypic.com/zxw6dd.jpg Are my measurements off? My equipment? Something else? I use 6.5 cups flour 1.5 T fast acting yeast (2 packets) 1.5 T coarse kosher 3 cups lukewarm water I bake at 450F for 30-35 on a cookie sheet with parchment. Hrothgar et al, if you read this, is the dutch oven and/or pizza stone necessary for the right texture? Is a water bath in the oven necessary for steam for the perfect loaf?

Weird, my parents saw him live in concert less than three weeks ago.

It still is afaik. Does your question suggest you didn't get the reference?