IMA ignore the lame Californians for this much more important question.

Man U has a sick nasty defense, and they're gonna do exactly what Chelsea did. Barca is going to need to start launching from outside the 18 to really have a chance in my mind. Also, Puyol and Marquez need to come back.

I spent $6 on a Rocky Patel Lite.
Also, UC: I am now completely, utterly, and miserably, sick. Mostly from nerves from finals et al, but the cigar probably didn't help.

Wait...Totally is a mod too?

We are all mods except for you. Just some of us choose not to display the fact. Go cry about it.

What do you think I'm doing?

puyol will be back; marquez won't. but i think pique's better at this point than marquez is.

barca cannot score from outside the 18, and every time they try, i cringe and comment how they threw the ball away. this will only get truer against van der sarr. their style is to slip eto'o, messi, or henry in behind the back four cleverly and slide one past the keeper one-on-one. they can do it against anyone, as long as that team is not parking the bus and not fouling the hell out of them. unfortunately, with vidic on defense, less physical is probably not gonna happen. (i HATE nemanja vidic. he is like my least favorite athlete.)

they are going to need to shut ronaldo down. valdez is cool and stuff, but he gets surprised too easily, and i can see ronaldo unleashing a 40 yarder like he did at porto. ronaldo's strong and fast, but he's not good at beating his man. keep a dude up in his grill whenever he has the ball and they should be ok on that front.

but more than anything, they need to unleash messi. the slip through simply doesn't happen otherwise. chelsea silenced him pretty well, admittedly. this cannot happen with man u, or barca will lose.

I think someone needs to create a soccer thread if one hasn't already been created.

soccer is in every thread.

deal with it.

Deal with what? I'm not even complaining.

OMG MOD ABUSE MOD ABUSE STOP HARASSING ME DON'T TAZE ME BRO OMG

I TAZE YOU SIR

What?!?! Totally is a mod?

God, I knew something was wrong with DDT.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS IS YOUR SMURFING PATRIOT ACT AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Kobe is bad at life.

what? no he's not...keep your ignorance out of our tazerplay.

NO U

I love how Kobe elbowing Ron becomes a foul...on Ron. Really? REALLY?!

He flopped.

I love how there are tons of blown calls on both sides of the ball in every game, and yet every fan only notices the ones that go against his team. And yes, this applies to me, too.

Dude. It's OCM's trickery. (Looking back on it, I could have just checked the list of mods before I freaked out, but it was too horrifying of a notion and that would have been far too simple.

PS: OCM is posting a lot again.

Favorite part of the game. Also, since Kobe is the epicenter of my hatred for the world right now, I HATE OCM right now.

Oh, no, I notice that too. In this case, it helps that while I root for teams I have a statistician's penchant for analysis. I sort of keep a rough track in my mind in blown calls and I have yet to watch a game where the blown calls are statistically significant in favor of either team. So I tend to blame the team when they lose. The officiating is so bad it cancels itself out...

I feel like this should have happened already and I am glad to see that you are on board.

TEAM TOTALLY...ASSEMBLE

Woah there's a hidden smiley face made from the white of the hair of the back of the old guy's head and his baseball hat

That's honestly one of the better pictures I've ever seen

I like the angry kid on the right.

OCM might be the greatest human being of all time.

He's the anti-Kobe in that case. And I don't think he can accept that.

Kobe is the greatest human being currently. I can accept that overall, through the billions of years that this world has existed, I have an overall better record of being awesome than Kobe, though.

Oh wait, so FAILING to win a state championship makes you better than Kobe? Interesting...

My failures in life >>>>>>>>>>> Your successes

I would have to respectfully disagree. But really, it's ok! Don't worry!

Don't worry about what? Being ridiculed by an insufferable jerkface?

Way ahead of you, palooka.

Yea, I hate being ridiculed by insufferable jerkfaces. Especially ones who love Kobe.

I should stop bashing on OCM. I don't know if he's knees can take it anymore.

It's so cute when you think your opinion actually matters to me.

Ima go ahead and ignore that, and bring this back to where it should be.

Kobe, by the rulebook, should be suspended for game three. Not from a Rockets fan, but rather J.A. Adande

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dime-090507

And honestly, I'm fine with Ronny A getting suspended; also, Derek Fisher should be, but he probably won't be.

Yet, Rajon Rondo is free to run around punching and throwing people as he pleases.

I think Rondo should have been suspended a game, as should Kobe now. Especially since they offed D-Wight last week... it's not like they are opposed to taking franchise players out. They just seem to be opposed to applying a reasonable, consistent standard.

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THE PICTURE IS POSTED

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Basketball bores me, Kobe Bryant plays basketball, therefore Kobe Bryant is boring.

As someone who should be a moderator on this board, I'm not going to allow people to talk about that man. The wounds are too fresh.

I'm still mourning Brad Miller's poor tooth.

Almost as boring as your face.

I've only ever seen you make like 3 different faces in your pictures excluding ones where your hand was on your face, so I wouldn't talk.

Quality over quantity. Something you have neither of.

he has at least a hundred different expressions. you just can't differentiate because you're racist.

All people from LA look the same, mainly because all I can see are silhouettes from beyond the all pervasive veil of smug.

George Clooney+OCM+Kobe Bryant=the Katrina of smug.

you forgot kanye west.