Zombie action go!

I read Strange Maine and I came across them talking about Zombie Kickball.  Now, I am wondering if there is like a Zombie kickball league?  Like, I am not sure how they would organize it cause zombies don’t seem to be very organizationally inclined.  But it’s a really good idea.  Have regular humans make the teams, do drafts, make up the schedule.

I guess you’d keep the zombies in some kind of…barn or something until it was time for the big game.  The visiting team would probably have to stay in the back of a big truck.  No sense having a bus since they don’t remember how to sit or anything.  But then when it was time for the game they could all get ready and the coach (who would not be a zombie) would get them out in the field and make sure the right one goes up to kick.  And there would be people packing the stands to see the game and there would be clever promotions and giveaways like zombie player bobble-heads and all the concessions would be blood and brain themed.  And.  Wait.

I just spent like 10 minutes talking about a zombie kickball league.  What the fuck is wrong with me?  Video of the game after the jump!

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Here they are celebrating a goal. Later, at dinner, shit would be kept real, however.

Well, or maybe not like Beckham. Because, according to this book that was excerpted in Sports Illustrated this week, Beckham isn’t quick to pick up the tab and that kind of irked his broke-ass MLS teammates.

Here’s an ESPN summary of the article, but they focus on Landon Donovan calling out Beckham for being a bad teammate and not Donovan lines like:

“He’d better be picking up meals too,” the excerpt quotes Landon Donovan.

I don’t so much care about the interaction on the field, because it’s MLS and not quite real soccer yet, so I mainly just want to hear more stories about MLS players whining about Beckham inviting them to a steak dinner and then keeping his millions in his pocket.

That stuff has great potential. I mean, with my eyes, I can see that the team is terrible, keep this backstage, who is paying for what meals drama coming. Maybe Beckham and Donovan went out for beers and Beckham only tipped like 15% and Donovan called him out on it. It could be a great sitcom to help promote MLS.

David Beckham

I will say, I was shocked to read this article on SIs website this morning. The article detailed how ESPN plans to give fairly full scale coverage to the World Cup next summer.

ESPN does do things right. I know that. However, being the only sports network in America sometimes they just throw stuff at you and don’t give a damn what they are doing. I mean, for the Confederations Cup the announcers were calling the game while watching it on TV from Connecticut. Sure, saves money, but gives the viewer less of a feel for what is going on.

Now, it seems not only are they sending announcers to the World Cup, but they plan on having multiple reporters with the teams, and not just the United States, which is a great move.

Said one ESPN executive,

We will treat this for what it is: one of the two great quadrennial sporting events in the world.

The other great sporting event being the Olympics.

In short, ESPN is setting their mind to covering the World Cup better than anyone else in the World. While USA might not accomplish everything they want on the field, ESPN should be able to accomplish putting out the best coverage if they put their mind to it. As an American soccer fan, I think that is almost more valuable to the sport than team USA making a solid run in the Tournament.

Cleveland traded all these ladies to Phoenix.

This, for all intents and purposes, ends Lebron’s time in Cleveland.

The reason I say that is because this move probably makes them worse, not better. It was a panic move. They lost, they needed to do something. So, my guess is that they take this move and go to Lebron in the offseason and try to get him to sign an extension. Shaq still has tons of credibility with players. He won’t, but, I’m less sure about that.

They needed a big man that could play defense. Not a big man that will clog the lane. A lane Lebron uses as the biggest part of his game. Basketball wise, this should not help them win games.

Now, if they paint this to Lebron as “we’ve got Shaq for a year, but if you re-sign now, we’re going to make a run at Chris Bosh after next season” then maybe it works out.

USA! USA! USA!

…we will CRUSH you.

USA got up 1-0 against Spain and for the first 38 minutes held tempo and was the better team.

After which? Well, it was a Spanish onslaught. But, USA never panicked and played as if they knew this was going to come at some point. They were all over the place. Blocking Spanish efforts one after the other. For the first 20 minutes of the second half Spain was doing this at will, but NEVER SCORED.

Then, the skies cleared and the tempo was slowed a bit and went back and forth. USA had some good chances down field and eventually got one to make it 2-0.

Great win for USA soccer. Now, they face the Brazil/South Africa winner, so, yeah, Brazil on Sunday.

All last week United State soccer was getting smoked by the likes of Brazil and Italy. The downward spiral was disgusting. They had a 1-0 lead against Italy in game one and things looked great. Then, they took a red card and went down a man. Things fell apart. They couldn’t hold and lost 3-1. Then, they were completely outclassed by Brazil in a 3-0 defeat.

They looked done. And then? Well, Sunday came around. Needing Brazil to win 3-0 against Italy and for the US to beat Egypt 3-0, it was improbable that USA would advance in this Tournament.

Fuck all that.
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