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Italy's opponent in the final Sunday will be decided in this one. The loser plays Germany in the 3rd place game Saturday.
France has seemingly risen from the dead in this tournament. After opening the tournament with a scoreless draw against Switzerland, France got a tie with Korea. This left France needing to beat Togo by at least two and hoping that Korea or Switzerland did not tie. And that's what happened. France beat Togo 2-0 and Switzerland did the same to Korea.
Portugal has made it to the semifinals for the first time since 1966, when they lost to England 2-1. Portugal went 3-0 in group play, defeating Angola, Iran, and Mexico. Then the Portuguese won a yellow card filled match over the Netherlands in the Round of 16 and then got past England on penalties in the quaterfinals.
And if you think the Portuguese got a lot of yellow cards before, keep in mind that the man in the middle today is Uruguayan referee Jorge Larrionda, a man who red carded three players in the USA-Italy match.
For those curious, FIFA rules strongly suggest that teams stop playing if they can't put out more than seven players.
Contest standings:
Standings:
1) Penarol1916 - 15
2) yankee23 - 11
3t) minxtscore, Phil Birnbaum - 10
5t) Los Longhorns, ddger - 9
7t) Abreck, humma kuvala, John Matthew - 8
10t) adg, Sam DC - 7
12t) jen, Ken Arneson, ravenscar, Suffering Bruin - 6
16) Mr. Customer - 5
minxtscore has Italy winning the final which is worth 8 points. Nobody else can earn any more points. So the Team Togo t-shirt (it's a lovely green) is either headed to Chicago or to wherever minxtscore lives. And I really hopes it's within the U.S. so I don't have to pay more for shipping.
There were 32 possible points in the contest and it looks like, at best, only one person will get over 50% of them.
If you don't wish to scroll down, I had this post earlier linking to a WSJ article about Dave O'Brien and company.
JP Dellacamera and John Harkes are calling the action today.
Also, although Korea was lucky to draw with France, it would still be cool to say that you drew with the WC champ.
Except for the members of the ABI Club, who will be watching this match with keen interest I believe.
Not to mention the dislike these two teams have for one-another after the Euro 2000 meeting.
Except I think he said it in Portuguese.
1986, Game 6, Vin Scully with the call...
I used to play this game a lot but I never had this much time on my hands. Still, it's impressive.
http://tinyurl.com/h8yey
You need to stop writing lesson plans, SB, and surf the web more. Just make it up as you go along.
Viva la France! Viva la France!
See, I think I'm making a new discovery and, you're right, I really need to get back to what I was doing before I started working... surfing the web as a full-time dad while telling my kid, "not now, son, I'm busy."
I am not the leader of the ABI club. I don't have a dog in this hunt after Germany lost.
I think it would be somewhat cool if Portugal could win it all since it is hard for any nation to break into the exclusive World Cup winning club.
Each team is starting five guys with an outstanding yellow.
Oh, and save me a place in the ABI club. I don't want a team I can't respect to win the cup!
Uruguay would still be the smallest country to win the World Cup.
The Italians are extraordinarily graceful and skilled players.
Unless they are in the 18 yard box, in which case, the trip and fall at the slightest provacation.
I should have looked in a dictionary.
That wasn't a typo. That was just a flat out
E - Timmermann (spelling).
England's share of the UK is 130,000 sq km.
I hate it when I don't use the rite spelling.
Was this intentional? Either way, it's worth a chuckle.
Regarding ABI, as a Korea fan, of course I used to be a charter member. But, hate only gets you so far. Italy has fantastic talent. The diving has become so common now that it's not just the Italians. My new least favorite player is Lee Youngpyo of Korea. He gives Totti a run for his money.
Was the penalty justified?
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Woah, nellie! We're not on Dodgerthoughts anymore, are we Toto?
You can only swear here if you do it in Morse Code or in a language written in a non-Roman alphabet.
Feel free to swear in any Cyrillic letters you want.
Which is a Carl's Jr.
Did you know that Carl's Jr. is called "Hardees" on the East Coast?
60 Babelfish? It sounds funny that a polite tone is used while disparaging an ethnic group.
That's my educational goal.
Most people in Southern California already know the bad words of Spanish.
Umlauts are part of a Roman-alphabet based language.
reed leaf/mouth/arm/lion/double reed leaf!
Heiroglyphs are fun!
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91 Dann sicherlich schmeckst du gut!
???? Is a Berliner something edible?
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/jfk_berliner.htm
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