DaveO Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Tiki-taka certainly uses the possession style that Cruyff popularized, but he was famous while at Ajax for "total football" (which he didn't invent, but he gets full credit for spreading to the modern game). Prior to this, positions were very rigid - you had attackers, midfielders, and defenders. In total football, the positions are more fluid, and the current influence can be seen in teams using outside defenders as flank players to support the offense. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielK Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Thank you. Whenever you see a defender cross from the side of the box while a midfielder drops back to cover the gap, or a defensive midfielder make a run into the box while a forward drops behind him to clog the center of the field in case of a turnover, raise a glass to Cruyff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Garry Shandling, 66 The deaths seem to be coming at an alarmingly fast rate. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Whenever you see a defender cross from the side of the box while a midfielder drops back to cover the gap, or a defensive midfielder make a run into the box while a forward drops behind him to clog the center of the field in case of a turnover, raise a glass to Cruyff. Thank you. Very accurate. When I watched Cruyff in the US he was also a masterful short passer, then mover into empty space getting the ball back and further advancing it. I guess that is a type of precursor to the tiki-taka style...but he is far better known for the total game with skilled players capable of playing all positions and flowing through the field. So last evening I toasted Cruyff while watching Maryland slowly but surely get buried by Kansas. (wait till next year) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Garry Shandling, 66 The deaths seem to be coming at an alarmingly fast rate. And now it's Patty Duke, 69. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 And now it's Patty Duke, 69. NOOOOO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookluvingbabe Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Jennifer Frey, former WaPo reporter. I always loved her stuff and missed her when she left the Post. Only 47 and survivors include her 17 year old daughter. Damn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Horoscope Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Ronnie Corbett (of The Two Ronnies) Here's a classic clip, Mastermind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Jennifer Frey, former WaPo reporter. I always loved her stuff and missed her when she left the Post. Only 47 and survivors include her 17 year old daughter. Damn... I hadn't seen this. I loved her writing. Very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Horoscope Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Merle Haggard, RIP http://www.wsmv.com/story/31658132/country-music-legend-merle-haggard-dies-at-79 Silver Wings His influence was felt in Cajun country. This is a French version of Okie from Muskogee called I'm Happy to be a Cajun from Church Point: http://www.npmusic.org/Un_Tit_Repeat_Dessus_le_Cadien_de_Church_Point.mp3 "And the love is the biggest thrill of all!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pool Boy Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 To the daughter of friends of ours. She fought a battle with cancer and lost. She was just 9. Fcuk cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 On 4/6/2016 at 0:39 PM, Pool Boy said: To the daughter of friends of ours. She fought a battle with cancer and lost. She was just 9. Fcuk cancer. I'm really sorry Thomas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hersch Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Bob Dylan at 75. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smita Nordwall Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 On 4/6/2016 at 3:39 PM, Pool Boy said: Fcuk cancer. To my amazing mother-by-marriage. She was strength and grace in the fight against brain cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reedm Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 A nickel on the grass for JSnake. I never met the young man, but it is apparent he left this world far too soon. RIP 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 I'll raise a glass to Muhammed Ali who passed away several days ago. He was an epochal figure for our times, though the prime period when he was a world wide revered figure peaked during the 1960's and 70's and inched its way into the earlier 1980's. By the mid '80's he was diagnosed with Parkinson's. Its impact hampered and then eliminated his ability to effectively communicate with the outside world for the last 30 years. He was also a highly controversial figure in the United States during the 60's and 70's. But Ali had a lovable and transformative soul. So so many of those that hated Ali from his earliest controversial period grew to love and appreciate the man. He was a man of love, dignity and respected all races and creeds in a universal way. The 3 people who will speak at his funeral include ex President Clinton, Bryant Gumbel and Billy Crystal (of all people). No members of Islam there despite his highly controversial conversion to Islam in 1964. Ali transcended all races and creeds. Yes he was a one of a kind amazingly talented boxer...never before or since has one so big been so fast and artful in the ring...and yet so violent and brutal as the sport demands. But beyond that Muhammed Ali was the toast of the entire world, the planet's most famous and revered individual, and one who broke bread and shared time with among others Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama not to mention some mean arse big hitters like Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman. Just imagine that...an individual who shared center stage with a brutish Sonny Liston and a holy Mother Teresa and fit the part in both places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 "All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." -- John Donne, 1624 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 On November 3, 2009 at 8:42 PM, jparrott said: Len Bias. I was 8 and playing in my yard when I heard. Grew up a lot that day. The ESPN doc airing right now brings a lot of that back. 30 years ago today. I remember this so vividly. I was a grad student at Maryland. We got a notice in our mailboxes not to talk to the media. I watched him play at Cole Field House a few times. He wore a fur coat to walk across campus. I remember someone pointing him out to me once. Post article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 On 6/14/2016 at 2:39 PM, DonRocks said: "All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." -- John Donne, 1624 To the Orlando first responders: "After Orlando Shooting, First Responders Grapple with Psychological Toll" by Morgan Winsor, Julie Barzilay, and Dr, Amy Glick on abcnews.go.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Horoscope Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 Ralph Stanley. What a treasure of a musician and singer he was! This was him on banjo singing that high harmony on the song Rank Stranger. His brother Carter Stanley is singing lead. This song is an old one by Albert E. Brumley, the same preacher who wrote songs you know like I'll Fly Away, Turn Your Radio On, I'll Meet You in the Morning. Well, if you listen to country music you might know them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Horoscope Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 Ralph Stanley singing Man of Constant Sorrow. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hersch Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Today, Midsummer Day, also the Feast of Saint John the Baptist, is Kiko's eighth birthday. I don't have any Irish whiskey in the house, so a Campari and soda will have to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 To Jerika Bolen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIShGo Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 To DonRocks. Fifty-five years ago today, Eva and Hilleary Rockwell heard the happy words, "It's a boy!" I am glad they did. The world is a better place with Don in it. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweaked Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 We are the music-makers, and the dreamers of dreams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenticket Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 To Gene Wilder. Thanks for all the laughter and love. I will raise a glass of Fizzy Lifting Drink in his honor a bit later. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John William G Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 To Fred Hellerman. From today's Times: "Fred Hellerman, a singer, guitarist and songwriter and the last surviving member of the Weavers, the quartet that in the 1950s helped usher in the folk music revival, died on Thursday at his home in Weston, Conn. He was 89." I'll listen to the Weavers a bit today and remember my visits to the Village in the 1960s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 To Amir Abdul-Khaliq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithstg Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 To Richard Keane and Bill Meehan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 To my old friend Dave Nelson who was murdered in the World Trade Center 15 years ago. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 2 hours ago, Keithstg said: To Richard Keane and Bill Meehan. 20 minutes ago, DaveO said: To my old friend Dave Nelson who was murdered in the World Trade Center 15 years ago. Absolutely to all who were directly and indirectly affected by the attacks. And I'll also go ahead and wish a happy 48th birthday to Member Number One. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcandohio Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 To my dad. 89 years young, diagnosed with cancer, who just announced he is refusing chemo. And he told us all, upon making his decision, that he hoped he did not disappoint us. No way Dad, no way. ? 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 On 9/20/2016 at 1:36 AM, dcandohio said: To my dad. 89 years young, diagnosed with cancer, who just announced he is refusing chemo. And he told us all, upon making his decision, that he hoped he did not disappoint us. No way Dad, no way. ? I would do the exact same thing. Get him in hospices now while he's healthy. It'll be the best decision you make. I have a friend with a 90-year-old father who is diagnosed with rapidly worsening congestive heart failure, and he made the same choice. Modern medicine is great at keeping people alive; not so great at keeping them alive *with quality of life*. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 I'm drinking a cup of coffee and thinking about my friend Gary who died early this morning at home from cancer. He had a long struggle with brain tumors. He was as kind and sincere as they come. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithstg Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 To Arnold Palmer and Jose Fernandez. Two transcendent talents. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Horoscope Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Buck Wheat! "Stanley Dural, Jr. - Founder of Buckwheat Zydeco, Dies at 68" by Jon Pareles on nytimes.com He was a jolly guy! I had the pleasure of introducing him and his band, Ils Sont Partis (They're Off!), at the Twist and Shout club in Bethesda, in French! He got a kick out of that and said I could introduce him any time he came to town! He was a big draw at Twist and Shout 1 and 2 and the Tornado Alley. A natural progression from Clifton Chenier's blues to Buck's soul and Rhythm and Blues base. I even remember him playing organ in Clif's Red Hot Louisiana Band when Clif was getting sick. What an entertainer! One of us? No, he was one of a kind! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hersch Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 To Neville Marriner, RIP. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodeats Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 CUBS WIN!!!! To ending 71 years of waiting and on a terrific double play.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 1 hour ago, goodeats said: CUBS WIN!!!! To ending 71 years of waiting and on a terrific double play.... It has been fated that the Cubs are going all the way this year - I'm happy for you, Mary! Not being facetious, but has it only been 71 years? Hell, the Nationals are nearly 20% of the way to that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldman Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 Thank you, Leonard Cohen. I am drinking to you. --- Leonard Cohen (mchoroscope) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John William G Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Leon Russell, great song writer, piano player and singer. Here is one of his best songs, “A Song for You,” which he first recorded in 1970. Russell was one day older than me. So many people I have known and/or admired are dying. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 21 hours ago, John William G said: Leon Russell, great song writer, piano player and singer. Here is one of his best songs, “A Song for You,” which he first recorded in 1970. Russell was one day older than me. So many people I have known and/or admired are dying. I'm a few years younger. At this stage 5,6,7,8 years aren't much different. My contemporaries are also passing away. Always depressing news. Always. Leon Russell: I enjoyed his works. Talented musician and fun singer. He could handle different types of music and blend them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Mose Allison. Mose Allison, a Fount of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89, by Nate Chinen, NOV. 15, 2016, on nytimes.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Something happy: Max Scherzer, on his second Cy Young Award! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcandohio Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Americas mom, Florence Henderson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saf Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Ron Glass. Dookie Chase. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcandohio Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 John Glenn. A Buckeye, and a real American hero. I had the distinct pleasure of meeting him at one of the thousands of events he attended at Ohio State over the course of his career. He was unassuming, and sweet, and humble. Huge loss for America, but especially for our OSU community. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 21 hours ago, dcandohio said: John Glenn. A Buckeye, and a real American hero. I had the distinct pleasure of meeting him at one of the thousands of events he attended at Ohio State over the course of his career. He was unassuming, and sweet, and humble. Huge loss for America, but especially for our OSU community. And an additional acknowledgement to his wife, Annie: Beautiful story 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveO Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Carrie Fisher: She played an all time iconic role. Her personality, writing skills, and human honesty were bigger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 For the Deadhead Star Wars fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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