Aerial Bombardment

Well, that was great. It is still less than twenty-four hours since the Czech Republic gave us a painful dose of bad medicine. I won't list all of the places you can go, but Matt Matros is one guy who feels the pain for sure. Not only was the first five minutes dreadful and the game was horrible, but the aftermath was an abomination. The US coach, Bruce Arena, prides himself on being soccer's answer to Dean Smith, Coach K, and Larry Brown, but the team forgot to read the handbook regarding what to do when your coach publicly chastises star players. You are supposed to take responsibility and say that the buck stops here, not spat back. There was truly nothing good that came from that game. "We didn't think we'd be down by a goal in the first five minutes." Why not? You thought you were one of the best teams in the world instead of a collection that couldn't start for a top ten club or country? I've got so much to say on this but I'm not going to put it out there. I would hope that our game with Italy includes eleven guys that can think of the game in this way: we've qualified for the World Cup, we're so excited to be here, I get to play against the best in the world today, I'm going to leave everything I have out on the pitch.

A few pimpages:

• High on Poker: Jordan's been doing alot of really good stuff lately. I can't imagine that you're not all over it, but if not get there.
• Pokerstage: John's been working really hard at some topical items, as well as writing for PokerWorks. He's inspired me to take more risks, even to write a short story for the first time in over a decade (to be published in Truckin' in a couple weeks I might add)
  
• Guinness and Poker: IGGY mega-post new today
• Pauly: great recap of last year's WSOP

Sweetie and I had a troubling conversation yesterday. I had a great work day, really cranked all day long, and I was giving her a recap of a few other things (writing for PokerWorks, some email's I've gotten about relationships, etc.). As I've mentioned here before, I've really struggled connecting with our mega-church that we go to. We had talked about that Sunday evening. So anyways, she said, "I think your blog and those people are your church." I was taken aback, but I tried to hear what she was saying and figure out if there was truth there. I don't see this as my church for sure, but it is a community, a fellowship of people that I enjoy, that I'm able to invest in and share with. I have to consider this a bit more.

I'm flying to Dayton tomorrow morning then driving to just south of Cincinnati. Any thoughts on poker between the two places would be appreciated. I have to spend the night somewhere. Thought about hitting Belterra, but my flight Thursday AM is 8:55, which would make a big hike. Caesar's Indiana looks too far as well.

The series I had planned looks like it will head into next week instead. Too busy, which is fine and a good thing for sure. Thanks for stopping by. Yesterday's post had a bunch of me in it, so feel free to scroll down if you didn't catch it yesterday.