winterbadger | Entries tagged with usmnt

Posted as I nervously check the US-Mexico ticker for news. Sounds like the US isn't doing a good job at bringing the ball out of the back...

ETA: Whew! Halftime. And the US Soccer match tracker looks flashy, but it's cr@p at refreshing.
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Current Mood: worried

Ticket to Gold Cup Double header: $40

Parking: $15

Two cups of Guinness, actually well poured: $15

Seeing 20,000 rabid Honduran fans shut their pieholes and sulk home after their team gets hammered by the US 'odds and sods' side: priceless

Actually, the other truly satisfying incident was seeing one totally out of control US fan scream and rant at the rest of the US supporters for singing in Spanish ("This is AMERICA! AMERICA!" Bwuh? Yeah, so? Lots of Americans speak Spanish) and be so unpleasant that the stewards asked him to leave, and when he wouldn't, a couple of Metro Police "escorted" him from the stands in a full nelson, because he tried to push *them*. Idiot.

Shouting (the good kind), singing, clapping, cheering, baloons, beer showers, smoke bombs...I don't want to sit in the supporters' section every match, but for national team fixtures, it feels good.

redactrice, Nicole the Ticket Mistress asked after you and was very glad to hear you're coming back to DC for a while; she didn't even ask if you'd come and work in the (new, fancy) ticket booth--I think she's just glad you'll be back in town.

Current Mood: ecstatic

Packed up my 20mm SCW guys and mailed them off to a nice fellow in California in exchange for a nice bundle on PayPal. Ka-ching!

DC whupped up on NJ last night (2-0--it's as 'whup' as we get right now until some of the older more broken players retire and the younger ones get more experience...)

Playing ASL tomorrow, having dinner and a movie with friends, and taping the USMNT game against Honduras to watch Sunday morning.

Sunday probably consists of aforementioned WCQ, maybe a trip to the farmers' market, another attempt to clean the flat, and a test of Polemos ECW.

Hopefully Monday I will get another game of Battlefront with Basileus Frankos if he has recovered from his minor surgery.

Finished a game of The Burning Blue with

vikingcat, about to start another (Guilford Courthouse) with him.