tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32095072010-04-26T11:53:49.514-07:00Ambiguously Disgruntled Manifestowasting your time since 1975Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.comBlogger1278125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-45626014362089097112010-04-26T11:53:00.001-07:002010-04-26T11:53:49.533-07:00The two-for one: Sounders Match 5 & 6, 2-2 @ Dallas and 2-0 @ Toronto So, I decided after Thursday night to write up one report for the Sounders 72-hour whirlwind tour of the continent, with an eye towards finding a common theme to tie the road trip together and establish the fact that they were well on their way to the Supporters Shield.  I had made the reasonable request that the boys pick up 4Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-36748557521227383022010-04-19T13:55:00.001-07:002010-04-19T13:59:58.158-07:00 Sounders, Matchday 4, 1-0 over Kansas City. "Sigi, we have a problem!" "Qwest: the Goal-less Desert" "The Failure of the 4-man 'Switcheroo' Attack" "Now I am just starting to get really pissed off" These were all possible headlines for this post, then Brad Evans saw something on an otherwise innocuous throw-in, and Michael Fucito, on for all of 8 minutes, saved the Sounders from themselves.  Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-51475597925920233052010-04-04T14:15:00.001-07:002010-04-04T14:17:38.911-07:00Sounders Matchday 2, 0-1 loss to RBNY. I don't really want to talk about it. We're all pretty pissed off.  I've even defended the validity of the astonishing 12 Sounders corner kicks as "helping tell the story of the match."   BTW, RBNY had 4 corners, and managed to scored on one of them... Going back through the last 10 Sounders' matches at Qwest, including friendlies (Chelsae and Barca last Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-81154493290983323612010-03-26T15:46:00.001-07:002010-03-26T15:46:01.804-07:00Sounders, Matchday 1, 2-0 over Philly "analysis" You can't spell "analysis" without "anal," which is good because my first in a [planned] series of semi-literate diatribes after Sounders matches will involve a lot of talking out of my ass. First of all, and this is probably to the benefit of the tone of this piece, I have only watched the first half of the ESPN broadcast, and that was last night,Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-76345421703298891972010-03-23T18:29:00.001-07:002010-03-23T18:29:27.655-07:00Yesterday I talked about "Reversionism," the purist and or fundamentalist social/political approach to current American problems, which calls for a return to "simpler times" and while certainly evocative, fails as an ernest methodology for solving problems.   Today I want to explore this a little more, and discuss a growing trend in populism today, which can essentially be boiled down to wrappingJakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-84657185308717692622010-03-22T22:15:00.001-07:002010-03-22T22:15:42.868-07:00Health Care and "Reversionism" This isn't about Health Care insomuch as it is about one of the by-products of the Health Care Debate.  While it is tremendously difficult to search for meaning and intellectualism in a "debate" which has been as childish and downright visceral as the one on Health Care, I would like to look beyond the reactionary comportment of those that oppose such change, and Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-23298283117450562122010-03-16T17:47:00.000-07:002010-03-16T17:47:55.828-07:00The "Business" of Soccer As the MLS season stands on the brink of a strike -- at the very moment Sounder's fans around the region are getting Fed-Ex-ed their season ticket packages -- I would like to offer up some friendly advice to Everyone involved in this troubling little stalemate, and this goes for Supporters and the Media as well as Owners and Players: Stop calling soccer a "business." Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-18353956219744463022010-03-07T17:12:00.001-08:002010-03-07T17:23:54.856-08:00Was "Avatar" a "great" movie or not? I have been intending to write this ever since I saw "Avatar" nearly a month ago, but hadn't got around to it.  Ravaged by the flu and bored out of my mind from sitting around and feeling sick, and with the Oscars on in a few hours, now seems like the time... --WARNING, CONTAINS SPOILERS!--either that, or it won't make any sense if you haven't sen it! I think Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-76006128468868054002010-02-11T13:32:00.000-08:002010-02-11T13:32:22.436-08:00"Global Warming" is the anecdotal moniker for the larger issue of climate change as an observed and projected effect of an increase in atmospheric levels of "greenhouse gasses," primarily carbon dioxide, as a result of human activity.  This is based on empirical atmospheric and climate data, and has gained the approval of a preponderance of scientists involved in climatic and atmospheric studies,Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-76126435079022454692010-02-03T20:38:00.000-08:002010-02-03T21:46:59.863-08:00in an effort to demonstrate the quixotic nature of picking NFL games, many media outlets have taken to employing unusual methods or people to make their picks. In the spirit of this, I present my roommate, Jozy. -ed.Hey everyone! The Super Bowl is this Sunday, and my roommate told to get off my furry ass and post my pick before I forget, like I did for the conference final games two weeks ago. Jozyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05430321659762593783jozypurr@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-66957295555079503472010-01-30T19:22:00.000-08:002010-01-30T19:43:31.884-08:00In a busy week of Sounders and MLS news and activity, one news story was somewhat overlooked.  On Wednesday, Sounder FC management announced that 2010 season tickets would be "capped" at 32,000 (over 31,0000 have been sold).  This, along with existing plans to set Qwest/RBP seating capacity for League matches at about 36,000 means that we can reasonably expect Sounders' average attendance figuresJakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-25855766515750409872010-01-28T16:30:00.000-08:002010-01-28T16:30:18.924-08:00An open letter to the Sounders FC front office, Alliance Council, and Supporter Groups. I have a harder and harder time justifying my sports fandom as the years go by.  In fact, the reasons to not really care about professional or big-time sports severely outweigh the reasons to care, or at least it often seems that way.  I have many friends who couldn't care less and I find myself almost Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-73588882194047129722010-01-27T19:54:00.000-08:002010-01-27T19:54:15.697-08:00Obama stuns congress, nation, with profanity-laden tirade Tonight's much-anticipated State of the Union address took a sour turn when President Barack Obama spent 70 minutes berating Congress and the Supreme Court in a shockingly blue speech. Congress had to take their lumps as he repeatedly referred to their ham-fisted stagnation over the last few months as "history's biggest wank-job" and Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-75002147776604658312010-01-15T21:12:00.000-08:002010-01-15T22:02:41.900-08:00n an effort to demonstrate the quixotic nature of picking NFL games, many media outlets have taken to employing unusual methods or people to make their picks. In the spirit of this, I present my roommate, Jozy. -ed.hey everyone, i just got up from my evening nap and am ready to go!before I begin, let's talk about what it is people do all day. all i know is, it was not a day fit for man nor beastJozyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05430321659762593783jozypurr@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-88566573562718946562010-01-08T17:49:00.001-08:002010-01-08T18:23:18.367-08:00in an effort to demonstrate the quixotic nature of picking NFL games, many media outlets have taken to employing unusual methods or people to make their picks. In the spirit of this, I present my roommate, Jozy. -ed. hey everyone, I just woke up from my mid-early evening nap, and am ready to go! lets get right to it! Its the NFL Wild Card round of the playoffs, which sounds like wild cat, Jozyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05430321659762593783jozypurr@gmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-28355345965137073512010-01-08T17:09:00.001-08:002010-01-08T17:46:47.617-08:00Dr. Strangesuck.. or why we stopped worrying and learned to hate Jim Mora... I actually conceived of the basis of this post in the last few weeks, as I was trying to think of topics on which to re-launch the blog. The events of today provide a far different context for what I have to say, but appropriately enough, don't substantially alter the words much... except for that witty introductory Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-84719040448897889122010-01-07T15:56:00.000-08:002010-01-07T16:02:23.735-08:00What if I told you the Sounders played a 5-4-1?Before you shout me down for being insane, let me take a minute to explain what's going on here. In this interminably long Sounders off-season, I have taken to becoming obsessed with formations. I have helped bide the time by reading the genius that is Jonathan Wilson and following a couple local blogs like Dave Clark's stuff over at Sounder at Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-67500495291060911262009-02-26T14:51:00.001-08:002009-02-26T15:42:43.482-08:00Bobby Jindal thinks you're an idiot!I can think of no other rational explanation for his Kenneth the Page-esque performance [this is where I admit to only seeing "highlights" and not the whole, excruciating affair] in his absolutely bizarre tele-prompter-reading "performance" the other night.Or, more to the point, The Republicans think we're all idiots..."Golly gee, $140 million for something Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-78733196421583516862009-02-11T22:27:00.001-08:002009-02-11T22:45:20.582-08:00I went to the George and Dragon earlier to watch the USA-Mexico match, the first of 10 matches in final-round World Cup regional qualifying. Far from the prettiest match, the USA held serve and won at home 2-0... in many ways, a 2-0 win in Football is the perfect result... people need to enjoy the beauty of a 2-0 win. Michael Bradley, who I have a man-crush on now, scored both goals, in the 42Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-38567373937290645222009-02-11T22:15:00.000-08:002009-02-11T22:26:10.575-08:00people talk about going the "extra mile." That's bullshit, life is about inches, and they're all around us...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4tIrjBDkkIts not going to take a paradigm shift, it will take baby steps. Stop using paper towels. if you don't compost, use a yard-waste bin -- which will take things like pizza boxes and all kitchen scraps. Use biodegradable trash bags. Stop using Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-50762577897103737292009-02-10T17:35:00.000-08:002009-02-10T17:43:14.525-08:00my friend "Joe" wrote this email today, I though it was a good little rant:(some minor editing for publication... you can figure it out)...well, you know how the Republicans are being stubborn, then turning around and accusing Obama of not being bipartisan, like he promised, when Obama has bent over backwards to be bipartisan, but if the Republicans actually acknowledge this it means Obama looks Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-6212337228270402372009-02-01T21:44:00.001-08:002009-02-01T21:50:34.004-08:00Got one more item on Stupor Blow XLIII. One of the things the NHL gets right is the playoff MVP award, called the Smythe trophy, and there is a precedent for it to go to a member of the losing team in the finals -- because it is, after all the PLAYOFF MVP award, and the playoffs last 4 rounds.The problem is, I'm not sure if Kurt Warner or Larry Fitzgerald would get it. i thought Kurt Warner wasJakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-10349022015200763822009-02-01T19:30:00.000-08:002009-02-01T19:38:07.991-08:00How many guys does NBC need for commentary? I'm as big a Holmgren fan as anyone else, but what's his purpose here? I am already weary of the Steelers as champs. Also, calling them "World Champs" should be punishable by public flogging.Steelers... meh...Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-71546227694241161112009-02-01T19:13:00.000-08:002009-02-01T19:17:25.641-08:00When does "The Office" start?Will Joe Namath be sober for the trophy presentation?Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209507.post-89172150289079511922009-02-01T18:51:00.000-08:002009-02-01T19:13:05.796-08:00Another exciting finish. More fodder for the ultimate bandwagon team, the Steelers. I missed my "under" bet. Holmes will probably be MVP. I wish I could get excited, but it's the damn Steelers.*sigh*Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02987678678640943049noreply@blogger.com0