Australia Gets Their Beatdown - Deadspin Comments

Australia Gets Their Beatdown

Marcel Mutoni — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:26:34 EDT

i couldn't agree more, cliffx.

those fans are awful. it's quieter than at the local Y.

Australia Gets Their Beatdown

CliffX — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:05:44 EDT

Wyanlda can be a really insensitive, whiny commentator sometimes.

Anyways, I realized yesterday why I don't care about the FIBA World Championships: because these Chinese crowds are horrifingly awful. They sit on their frickin' hands for 90% of the game. Terrible atmosphere over there.

CliffX

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YNBA — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:58:02 EDT

Eric Wynalda's heart attack over the no-call was pretty damn amusing, though, I have to say. But, man, I haven't seen a clearer penalty in a long time.

YNBA

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SuperFrankieLampard — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:24:28 EDT

yeah, espn was running it on a one-hour delay, creating the possibility that the "bottom line" on the screen could run the final before the game was over on tv. but i fell asleep before i could see if it happened.

and they did in fact delay it for an mls game. which, as yostal said, featured one of the worst calls seen in a long long long long time.

SuperFrankieLampard

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Skeets — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:16:14 EDT

Yeah, a buddy in Japan just told me that USA beat Germany, 103-85.

Skeets

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Matt Sussman — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:11:01 EDT

Maybe it was live and the front page of ESPN just had a really, really, really good guess.

Matt Sussman

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Yostal — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:01:55 EDT

When I read what time the game would be on, an ESPN story did note the 1 AM start was tape delay (and they were showing Houston/Chivas USA, which featured one of the worst calls I have ever seen in soccer.), but yeah, I think they that you've called it right, I just don't know that they were trying to pass it off as plausibly live.

Yostal