Jay Lucky

Ok, seriously, what the fuck is wrong with some of these officials? 16 yellow cards and 4 red cards in the Portugal vs. Netherlands game. Come the fuck on… this completely destroyed the game. Valentin Ivanov had no clue what the fuck he was doing, let alone what was going on in the game. I seriously hope he never works again, stupid fuck. Now Portugal is down 2 men for the England game, which, for me is great since I want them to win, but I’d rather have a good game with good teams.

Defnately one of the best games I’ve seen in awhile was the France vs. Spain game that closed out the round of 16. Holy crap what a good game that was, and what a well deserved win for France. I think the Brazil vs. France game will be interesting, and I hope that France can put up a good fight against the powerhouse that Brazil is… they’ve won enough times, it’s time for them to get knocked out.

Round of 8 starts Friday, can’t wait! Let’s hope England can get to the semis!

Okay, first off… the USA team may have had a shitty call made on them when a PK was handed over to Pimpong because Onyewu was supposedly pushing him down. This I will agree with whole heartedly and Bruce Arena wasn’t to kind about it either.. BUT! And this is a big but… USA played like shit. They deserved to lose, I think. Yeah sure, I live here in the good ol’ US of A, but fuck… I don’t care. You play like shit, you deserve to get booted out of the tournament. Where the fuck was Donovan? Where was Beasley? Eddie Johnson tried to work for the ball in the last 20 minutes of the game, but come on, it was a poor showing by the USA. Reyna pretty much gave up that first half goal to Draman in the 22nd minute, good thing he’s retiring. The only saving grace was Dempsey’s bullet of a goal in the 43rd. It could have been won… but players failing to step up, even after the shitty call, ultimately led to them being eliminated. A poor poor showing by the USA. Ghana wins it, 2 - 1. Sometimes I wish I lived somewhere else…

If you want to see how to really play football, look no further than Sweden (at least for today). Senderos nails a header off a set piece and follows through into the face of Jin-Chul. Now that’s how you play for a goal. It was an absolute stunner of a header… one of the better ones I’ve seen so far. Sweden went on to win 2 - nil, scoring another goal after the referee continued play eventhough the line judge called the ball offsides. I watched this play over and over in slow motion on my DVR… this was an absolutely wonderful call by the referee. The line judge called it wrong and the ref overruled it, allowing for Frei to play on and score. Quite a bit of controversy over this goal today, but if you really look at it, Frei was onsides when Margairaz played it. It was deflected forward to Frei by a Korean defender, which is what the line judge mistook for a pass. Brilliant call.

Round of 16 starts tomorrow with Germany vs. Ecuador and Argentina vs. Mexico. I’d love to see an upset here with Ecuador defeating Germany, but I really doubt that will happen. I think Argentina is going to crush Mexico… but we’ll see!

Man, the action is getting quite good lately. First the USA manages to keep Italy to a draw in that absolutely stunning game on Saturday. I have to admit, I wasn’t expecting that kind of game. USA down to 9 players? Italy down to 10?

How about McBride getting an elbow to the face, walking off the field with blood streaming from a gash under his eye onto his jersey. The referee was obviously high on something, probably has a crack problem or maybe meth since that’s the new threat to society these days, because what the fuck was he thinking with all of those yellow cards? Seriously, get a grip… I hope that stupid fuck never ref’s a professional game again. He shouldn’t be allowed near a football, let alone anywhere near a pitch.

Pope and Mastroeni are out for the Ghana game on Thursday now because of bullshit calls. It’ll be interesting to see how that game is, since it’s do or die time for the USA. Really going to have to pull from the bench… And what about Ghana? A shocker of a win over Czech Republic… 2 - Nil. Amazing. Hopefully Italy beats the Czech’s so the group standings work out in the USA’s favor. Thursday looks like a great day for football!

Sunday had a great game with France and South Korea… seriously, best crowd I’ve seen so far. Those South Korea fans are INSANE with their national pride, it’s awesome. Makes for some great background noise for some great football. Absolute shit of a call though on that header by Vieira, though. Domenech (the coach for France) said at a press conference later, “We did not score one goal but two. The problem is that the referee only allowed us one.” No shit… the ball was totally over the line. The ref’s have been pretty bad so far, it seems, but when are they not? Still… open your fucking eyes, jeez.

Today wasn’t a bad day either… with Spain defeating Tunisia after being down 1 - nil for 72 minutes. Two beautiful back to back goals in the 72nd and 76th minutes, and then the final nail in the coffin with a well deserved penalty kick from Torres in the 90th. Switzerland came up with a big win over Togo, which puts them up in the standings for Group G. Looking forward to the South Korea vs. Switzerland game on Friday.

Tomorrows got two great games with Ecuador vs. Germany and England vs. Sweden! Wednesday has Argentina vs. Netherlands, which should prove to be quite a game since Argentina looks like they’re on fire lately with that 6 - nil win over Serbia & Montenegro.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh it just doesn’t stop! How the fuck am I supposed to look for a job when I have to watch 4 to 6 hours of soccer a day! =) Fuck it, if I was employed I wouldn’t get to, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.

I’m convinced that everywhere but the US can play football ( soccer for you fucking morons that don’t know what real football is ). This was confirmed for me when watching the US play the Czech Republic on Monday, I mean, come on, they really got their ass beat. No one on the US team seemed to really care about the game or want the ball. England plays like absolute shit and still comes up with a win, what gives?

The cup so far has been pretty good… I can’t complain, I get to watch almost every game =) I’d have to say that so far, the best game I’ve seen was the Mexico vs Iran game, just purely because they both wanted the ball and the set pieces were sweet. Anyway, off to watch the Spain vs. Ukraine game on my DVR and play some FIFA World Cup on the 360!

So I came up with a project to completely organize the 18000 odd mp3’s that I have… This means that I have to basically go through each album and open it up, retag them with Magic MP3 Tagger, make sure it’s right, double check it, verify that the retag worked, and then finally, delete the old copy. This was the best program I could find out there that did what I wanted it to, but even so, it has it’s quirks that end up consuming a ton of my time. Fuck me this is taking forever!

The reason why I started all of this? So I can play my mp3’s on my 360, natch. =) Plus it gives me something to do for a few hours at night instead of surfing channels on the couch, which is starting to get old since most seasons are over now.

Ok, so maybe I’m a little late with this new XBLA fad… but so what, this game kicks ass. Who knew that playing Uno online with three other people would be so damn entertaining… I sure as hell didn’t think it would be. That is, until I tried it. It’s so much fun that I’ve spent most of the last three days playing it online.

Hit me up if you want to play a few rounds of progressive penalty, draw until play Uno. I need 18 more wins for my last achievement! =)

Can’t wait… a friend and I are going to a bar to watch the first match between Germany and Costa Rica at 9 AM. Early as fuck, I know, but should be worth it. Then we’re going to watch the England vs. Paraguay match at 6 AM on Saturday, again, early as fuck, but how can you not want to see it?

Right now, I’m hoping England and USA win, so we’ll see how it goes. Alot of pre-cup injuries going around, so it should be interesting. France just lost Cisse, which is a HUGE blow to them. Let’s hope Rooney can still play for England…

Everyone’s gotta have one of these, they’re great!

Go me.