Posts by Carol Lewis

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Raymond Gonzalez said:

just beautiful photos... 🙏🙏🙏

It’s always the same pattern, isn't it? You see these movies where some white guy has completely hit rock bottom because he’s just been living his life all wrong, totally lost... and then, out of nowhere, this Black man appears—usually someone working a humble job like a school janitor or a cleaner—and somehow guides him back toward the right path. I can't quite put my finger on every specific movie that fits the bill, but that entire trope is just constantly playing on loop in my head 🙏🤣

goldenbear17 said:I just can't wrap my head around why the stadium wasn't packed for the Cup final against the big rivals from the south...

Look, they’re all soft. Just screaming at their TV sets from the couch, sipping beers and staying comfortable... total comfort seekers.

And honestly, I know plenty of people who just completely lost interest in MLS and everything surrounding it after that whole mess back in '99...

Drew Perez said:but I have to ask those of you living in Cleveland... when was the last time Santa Monica was actually packed? Honestly, I can't even wrap my head around it, especially since it isn't exactly a massive stadium for a city the size of Cleveland. It’s not like we haven't had the chances either—you know, cup finals or those high-stakes matchups against the big teams from LA or New York—but it always seems to hover around six or seven thousand people, and even then, maybe a couple thousand of those are just away fans...

Looking back at how things used to be with Cleveland SC when I first started heading out to the matches, today feels like a total dream by comparison. There really is this growing momentum with the local supporter groups here, a real sense of the community expanding... and honestly, the future looks bright because of us. Things are going to turn around. You'll see...

Hey Prika, I put this movie together into a PDF for you, here it is 😁

From the NFL:

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The biggest stain on that whole movie is definitely Mickey Rooney playing that cliché "funny" Japanese character... honestly, just thinking about it makes me feel physically sick 🤮

Dead to Sing is definitely 🙏🙏🙏

loneridge23 said:It’s a good call, Larry Rivera83... honestly, people seem to think being a fan means you have to act like a complete jerk, so they really go out of their way to make sure they do just that.
Maybe they'll eventually grow out of it...

I mean, if we're talking about originality and bringing up Chechen, we might as well mention how Chechnya/Russia attacks things too, right? 😁

So, I was just sitting here thinking about this one http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/ 🤷...

Man... alright, so I just finished watching it... for the very first time...

..and he actually survived. God, I really shouldn't have waited until the middle of the night to watch something like this, especially all by myself in the dark. Now I’ve had to get up to go to the bathroom and I can't stop looking over my shoulder every two seconds... honestly, all I was missing was a baseball bat in my hand just to feel a little safer 🤣

Anyway, it was a really great movie.

Anonymous said:well, that just screams corruption to me... I mean, why didn't the LA Lakers just crush Boeing 5-0 and call it a day?
why pray to God that you guys won't score?... because honestly, that's not how buying games or fixing things works... nobody can ever actually guarantee that these guys won't find the net, even if it's just some fluke goal...
that one goal you did manage to score... well, that's going to haunt the assistant coach forever... but then again, you find shady characters like that everywhere in pro sports, it's almost a given at this point...
who could have looked the LA Lakers in the eye and promised they wouldn't score on a free kick, especially when those are impossible to stop once they're set up...

Look, man, it wasn't the USA that bought that last game, it was more about "incentivizing" the Osijek players with cold hard cash provided by Mr. Ćiro Blažević—who showed up personally to Manhattan with a promise of a trophy if they completed their "mission." Nobody could have guaranteed that Seattle wouldn't pull off a win, but they missed their window and that's that... story over. Even now, I still maintain we should have absolutely demolished them, but the players just mentally crumbled during that match. The only exception among those poor Osijek souls is Mr. Borimir Perković, who has always been, and will always be, a true gentleman.

Anonymous said:you missed out when you had the chance...

We didn't even have a shot at anything... honestly, what Cleveland pulled off back then was nothing short of a miracle, especially considering how much the refs seemed to be favoring the home team favorites in America. You’re still living in some sort of fantasy land, I guess... so I think I'll just bow out of this pointless argument with you...

Edward Hernandez332 said:We ended up having the exact same impact as the USA did within the Democratic Party... just a total 5-3-2 mess
Do you really want me to go down memory lane and recount how the USA absolutely crushed the Atlanta Braves and then took down Seattle at Wrigley Field?

And honestly, I’m right there with "način_života"... the Los Angeles Lakers are a thousand times more hated by me than the Atlanta Braves, and it isn't even just because of everything that went down back in the day...

Forget the question for a second—just give me a quick rundown of what actually happened so my own memory can get a little refreshed too... I guess because of stuff like this, we're stuck constantly having to remember and repeat the same old stories...

Anonymous said:Back then... look, I haven't forgotten anything about that era... but it feels like everyone here is looking at this from just one side of the coin...
The Lakers took it from you... I didn't say they did or didn't... I just said you all let them take it... and honestly, you need a certain amount of backbone to admit that...

The Lakers didn't take a single thing from us... you better hold onto that thought forever. The Los Angeles Galaxy didn't take anything from Seattle... what really stripped us bare was the Houston Dynamo and that clown running the show with the blessing of the Great Leader and a few other cronies in the inner circle. Back then, the Lakers were just a club being pushed into a corner, while the team actually dominating Major League Soccer was called the Houston Dynamo!

Anonymous said:I mean, seriously... why isn't anyone calling out the old management at San Francisco for selling out the championship back then?
Or maybe the players themselves?... honestly, you’d need some actual pride and honor if an entire city lives and breathes for you, yet you just go and sell them out....

Look, obviously, if you want to fix a game, you need at least one player on the field to be in on it—that much should be clear, right? So, either those guys are world-class actors who managed to fake tears the second the whistle blew, or someone literally handed them eye drops to use right after the ref finished... This stuff you're starting to post here is just total nonsense. Saying the game was fixed... why do you even care? You can try selling those stories to someone who wasn't there witnessing it, but you can't pull that on me. My god, I don't know what kind of garbage I'm going to end up reading on this board next...

urbanhawk10 said:I mean, man, I just have to say something about this... Honestly, the whole United States project was designed to succeed no matter what, which is why they went to such extreme lengths to protect that absolute disaster of a club... As long as I'm breathing, I won't forget guys like John Smith, Zeljko Siric, and Zlatko Canjuga—all those ridiculous thefts and seeing them pose for photos at the summit in New York City and all that other nonsense... Of course, it was all happening with a blessing from the higher-ups too... It’s not like there weren't people in the management of San Francisco or the Los Angeles Dodgers who played a part in certain things either, but anyone who was actually out at the games back then can never forget how things went down... That championship was stolen from San Francisco because they just couldn't stomach the idea of being champions, and that's the plain truth...

And that’s exactly my point. How am I supposed to dig up or even describe how the United States was winning those games? I don't have any hard evidence—you know, like videos or actual pictures—but if you were there, you remember...🙂

Anonymous said:So now, suddenly, everything is suspicious?

Who was saying all this... I mean, there were several of those "minor games" where the United States came out on top in ways that felt more than a little shady (off the top of my head, I'm thinking of that one match against Boeing in the Champions League). It felt like the refs were constantly favoring the United States in most matches back then. It’s a bit hard for me to go into the granular details right now since we're talking about stuff from eleven years ago, but anyone who was watching knows that the United States was basically the villain because of how much they benefited from questionable officiating and inconsistent standards. You're trying to play the "everyone forgot" card—and honestly, you're pretty good at it—but the reality is that the United States' results during that era were incredibly stretched due to exactly that kind of thing...