OT: Okay, I'll bite, just how DOES a soccer goalie fail to stop a shot made from 95 yds out?

by Titov on Oct 24, 2009 1:26 AM EDT Comment 9 comments

Well, this is how-- and it actually isn't the keeper's fault, really. You try judging a bounce like that.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/post/Video-SMU-freshman-hits-95-yard-soccer-goal?urn=top,197845

While I've got your attention (and need to hit 75 wds), let's hear it for the Angels-- way to hang in there, fellas, now go light up Pettitte -- and let's hear a round of sustained boos for the Dodgers, whose determination to make the Ph*cking Phillies look good was seriously depressing.

Need more money for college? Welp, take some *from* college, courtesy of the NCAA! Last week illustrated once again, alas, that the smart bets are not always the right bets, most painfully when some unsportsmanlike-happy refs struggled, and succesfully, to keep Notre Doof in a game that wasn't close-- *that* was the crew that should've been suspended, not the SEC's -- and Snodfart receivers started dropping passes, including the game winner, with a sudden and wholly inexplicable flair. Incredible.

But hey, all you can do is keep spreading wisdom, like hay on the stable floor-- just waiting to get shat on. That said, buck up and take 'Zona and 7.5 over UCLA in the desert. SC by 20.5 over OSU in the Coliseum? I'd bet the refs can't do it twice in a row. And yeah, with a new brand of stickum (and a healthy fullback), Stanford will put on a nice more-than-7 show in PA against the Scum Devils. There, spring tuition for ya.

And finally, I'll bet you've never heard of either Kseniya Simonova or sand animation. I hadn't until somebody sent me this. A simply amazing performance (plus, she's kinda hot).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo

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poor positioning?

It was a tough bounce to be sure, but shouldn’t the goalie have been closer to the ball?

Librarians are hiding something

by dfa on Oct 24, 2009 5:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Or further away, as in well back in the box, where a keeper's supposed to be when the ball's that far upfield, right?

But (a) it’s hard to fault a goalie for trying to get as good a look as possible at the upfield play, especially at that point in the game, which is what this guy was probably doing as he wandered that far out; and (b) nobody— nobody — practices their Defense Against the 95 Yard Shot, so: you can’t believe it’s coming, and when it does, you have no idea that by not racing hell-for-leather backwards, you are effectively placing yourself ideally in a tweener position for getting beat, and easily, by the big bounce.

So yeah, in the end I figured the coach probably did the right thing by not killing the kid for a positional error, though that’s clearly what it was.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Oct 25, 2009 1:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

the goalie's position was fine

not so much the reaction time.

big ball in the air coming towards you… lots of room behind for slack…back the fuck up.
stupid goalies. they are the bane of humanity.

by b_duardo on Oct 25, 2009 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

incredible video

who knew sand could be so powerful. i guess ukraine does have talent

"you know what the orioles could use right now? a day off." - joe angel

by swilhelmross on Oct 25, 2009 12:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I've seen the video before

It’s pretty damn cool.

"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer

by Baltimo on Oct 25, 2009 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It was indeed cool

but I didn’t really get the people crying… maybe it’s just all the more beautifully moving as a member of the audience?

by O Nina on Oct 25, 2009 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think the association with WWII, the greatest event/biggest tragedy in most family histories here, is what evokes tears

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Oct 26, 2009 1:38 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, that.

It took me well into minute 6 of the video to even figure out what exactly she was doing, HOW she was making those images… then I wikipedia’d it to make sure. I guess I was concentrating too hard on that and less on the actual content. And was doing three other things at the same time I was watching the clip. And that’s my excuse… the ADD nature of whatever my generation is called (the raised-on-the-Internet generation?).

by O Nina on Oct 27, 2009 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What Titov said

"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer

by Baltimo on Oct 27, 2009 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs