Articles Archive for October 2011
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For today’s betting lines, we’re keeping it simple. You can only bet on goal scorers. One twist is I’ll try to give you a line on every player who might actually score.
The Lines
Who will score against Houston?
Cooper 4:1
Jewsbury 8:1
Perlaza 8:1
Nagbe 8:1
Chara 10:1
Dike 12:1
Brunner 15:1
Alexander 16:1
Wallace 16:1
Zizzo 16:1
Danso 17:1
Chabala 17:1
Alhassan 18:1
Marcelin 20:1
Palmer 20:1
The field 20:1
The Rules
-Everyone gets $20 in monopoly money each week to bet with. Anyone can jump in at any time.
-If you are carrying a balance, you get your balance plus $20.
-Use it or lose it: If you don’t bet that week your balance won’t go up by $20.
-Leave your bets in the comments.
Balances:
@themikedonovan $190
Yax $94
Kejsare $80
@SeanWeiss $70
Alex $70
Clifford $60
Ken $55
AugustePDX $45
Andrew Wheeler $35
Andre … Read the rest
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@TimbersArmyNoob sent us the top five finishers so far for TANYA 2011. Who do you think is most deserving of a TANYA? Take the poll below.
Top 5
- LARPers – Whether it be a Luchador mask, an Aztec headdress, facepaint, kilts, or mohawks, we are all special and deserve to get noticed.
- People that still seriously post on SCUSA – It served its purpose these past many years and deserves our thanks, but it’s easier to bang your head against a cheese grater. Faster too.
- Timberssuck on Twitter – Like a cross between Rick Astley, Don Imus, and your bitter semi-ethnocentric (and let’s admit it, slightly racist) grandpa, this guy is never gonna give baseball up.
- Corvette Lady on Oregonlive – Though not new to the Oregonlive.com comment trolling game, she’s actually starting to concede some points to the dark side. Plans to capo a match next season.
- Everyone with
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When you worry about missing the playoffs this year, just take a look at Vancouver and remember, that could have been us.
The Timbers didn’t get the benefits of being a lone expansion team in 2011, but instead had to split a lot of things with Vancouver: dividing up expansion draft picks and the top MLS draft slot, as well as all kinds of other obscure rankings and allocations. Both teams had to fight to sign and trade for a mostly new team, besides the players and management they took up from the USL.
The results?
- Vancouver has four wins, Portland has 11.
- Portland is in the thick of the playoff race, while Vancouver has been mathematically eliminated for a while, and realistically eliminated for most of the season.
- Portland has maintained their connection with their history, and is slowly building a team identiy. Vancouver has already fired their coach
