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yeah for real. Two of the four game so far have gone to PKs. However, I do expect France to win pretty easily tonight. I think the Ecuador-Mexico tie will be super interesting. I think Ecuador could steal that one, and frankly, though I dislike both sides, I think that's what I'll be rooting for. Norway-Cote d'Ivoire is another interesting one. I sort of expect Norway to win that (with their starters, hopefully) but CIV could be dangerous. I'll probably be rooting for CIV since my brother and his wife both served in the Peace Corps there so there's kind of a connection. I like Norway too, though. That should be a fun game and I'll be happy regardless of the result.
You don't know ball lmao it was an incredibly weak call. Homey is standing and gk initiates contact and falls down
Edit: yeah Germany appealing is sour grapes but that call was *bad*
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Don't get me wrong, I quit deer hunting 15 years ago or so, but it was a personal choice as the hunting was getting easier and easier as the years passed. I would still hunt dove, and hope to find some fields in the Shenandoah to hunt, but I pretty much gave up on hunting in general as I aged, and spent more time on the water instead.
The problems in Blacksburg will just get worse, disease and property damage will eventually necessitate more drastic measures that will likely serve to further inflame the debate. Having been raised by a hunting father, I have enjoyed the pursuits and feel sorry for those who want to see more wildlife, but aren't willing to get out before sunup day after day, or sit in a deer stand all day, peeing in a jug and eating power bars. Or the joy of hunting with well trained bird dogs or of coming down a mountain trail with a big ole gobbler over your shoulder, the taste of a roasted wild duck, deer tenderloin or grilled dove breast wrapped with bacon...
I don't know how you can defend being in the way and knocking into the goal keeper on a corner, but that appeal will fail.
That's crybaby mentality and even more reason not to like Germany.
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Springfield represent!
During hunting season in Craig County as a kid, every single roadside shoulder on Ponds Mountain had a camp site. Opening Day and Doe Day sounded like a gun range. The last year I went before Dad got sick, it was completely empty. I went from seeing a deer in the woods happening once every couple of years to seeing 15-20 a day in the backyard. The numbers are skyrocketing, and there isn't enough food for all of them.
Unfortunately Blacksburg has a lot of idiots that are calling for outright banning hunting of deer never thinking about the effects on their population, overbreeding, and overall health as a result. That and kids today are not as interested in hunting growing up.
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Germany got hosed by the officials and have rightfully appealed the result. They actually won in extra time.
As I've mentioned, I am house sitting in Giles (Newport) for a spell, on a knob above 460 with a great view of Salt Pond Mt. (Mt. Lake) and a surprising amount of close up wildlife encounters. Deer daily within 20' of the house, more rabbits than I thought could exist even in a big yard like this house has, and this morning, strolling by was a bear, maybe a 2 yr old. Wife and dog were outside, wife saw bear, bear saw wife and dog, dog is very small so she was looking at the ground and didn't see the bear, thankfully, and wife was able to come back in and call me to see.
One thing has struck me during the weeks we've been here is the abundance, maybe the overabundance of deer in the county. On the roads, in the yards, singly or with fawns, and as many as 15 or more browsing in fields.
I guess the changes in how and why people hunt deer have produced an interesting, if not worrisome population growth. The younger generation is increasingly not interested in outdoor pursuits and wouldn't understand what it used to be like and how unusual it was to see deer routinely, at least here in Virginia.
Still, it's been like a zoo trip and a good respite from the blazing heat of the Bay. Oh, and for those of us who haven't been there in decades, what they've done at Pandapas Pond is nothing short of amazing. I may even rustle up a rod and try fishing a little next week. They stock it in the late fall and winter with rainbow and there are probably other panfish in the pond. Clean, well managed and a totally different experience from the weed choked mud hole that was Pandapas back when I lived here.
And lastly, the Palisades restaurant is still awesome.
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Not much has me breaking out the fly rods these days, but when it comes to panfish (excepting crappie), there's no better way to catch them if you can move around and have room for the backcasts. Mitigates the grass problem to some extent. Curly tailed grubs on light jigheads is a go to for me as well, but I've caught a surprising number of redeyes on smallmouth tube jigs fished on the bottom in slower, deeper water.
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small 1/32 tube jig...blue w/ white tail (caught a few thousand bluegill, redears, and warmouth on this color combo) black with blue tail or fire tail would be the backup color combo
small spinners...had best luck with blueish grayish roostertail...if they still make them (or something close to that color)
Good OL and DL and a QB with a quick release came make up for many ills.
What a first full day of knockouts. And everybody thought the round of 32 was going to be awful because of the expanded format and 3rd place teams...
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6 of our 7 top recruits for this cycle are players who will spend their time in the trenches (one of those 6 is a TE). I really like what we are doing right out of the gate. Set that foundation, then build everything up from there.
Paraguay and Germany will be remembered as one of the best games of the tournament, and it might not even be the best game of the day, with Netherlands and Morocco later today.
The goalie was stationary when the offensive player moved into him and put 2 hands on him, THEN the goalie moved towards where the ball was going and fell down with some weak contact. The foul was for moving into the goalie and grabbing him with 2 arms and then never making any attempt to do anything other than block the goalie on that play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-FDXckDpwk