http://brothersjudd.disqus.com/enSun, 07 Sep 2008 21:59:59 -0000http://brothersjuddblog.com/archives/2008/09/euros_are_so_spastic_they_cant.html#comment-2223794<p>Anything that makes it easier to score in a soccer game is good.</p>BrandonSun, 07 Sep 2008 21:59:59 -0000http://brothersjuddblog.com/archives/2008/09/euros_are_so_spastic_they_cant.html#comment-2223189<p>Jeff Francoeur is....</p>orrinjSun, 07 Sep 2008 20:48:32 -0000http://brothersjuddblog.com/archives/2008/09/euros_are_so_spastic_they_cant.html#comment-2220423<p>Seems like a stupid request. While the ball may move more now than just 5-10 years ago, that's part of the game. Not everyone can hit the ball perfectly without spin, so if a player is able to master that shot, more power to him. </p>poormedicalstudent.blogspot.coSun, 07 Sep 2008 20:13:06 -0000http://brothersjuddblog.com/archives/2008/09/euros_are_so_spastic_they_cant.html#comment-2219246<p>"Unlike players such as David Beckham, who mastered the ability to put spin on the ball so that it dipped and swerved into the net, Ronaldo kicks the ball so that it barely spins on any axis. This means that as air rushes over the seams of the ball it creates turbulence that can suddenly change the ball's trajectory at random."</p><p>He's kicking knuckleballs, apparently, but no one over here is begging MLB to change the design of a baseball so that Varitek doesn't look like an idiot catching Wakefield</p>RyanSun, 07 Sep 2008 17:31:06 -0000http://brothersjuddblog.com/archives/2008/09/euros_are_so_spastic_they_cant.html#comment-2218067<p>Earnest, good--kickball, bad.</p>orrinjSun, 07 Sep 2008 14:54:32 -0000http://brothersjuddblog.com/archives/2008/09/euros_are_so_spastic_they_cant.html#comment-2218049<p>But the balls <i>are</i>, if not broken, very different now. They dip, dive and swerve in ways they never did even just five years ago.</p><p>I just returned from my Sunday league game, in fact. Our goalkeeper is a top-end athlete who played running back for a Midwestern college. (If anybody has good hands, in other words, it's him.) We're playing with the new Euro 2008 balls, and he's getting beat left and right with this thing.</p><p>I know the point of this post was to bash soccer, or Europeans, but I'm steamrolling right past that and leaving an earnest comment in good faith.</p>TomSun, 07 Sep 2008 14:53:31 -0000