Rob Baggio

Ph.D., J.D. who chose the lab over the law but likes to raise his voice when either can be applied to sports.

[Rob Baggio @robobaggio]

@wmarybeard Mary do you have a preferred translation? Mine is quite easily the Robert Fitzgerald which I think is a standalone lyrical masterpiece. But having long ago painstakingly gone through the Greek I know he takes liberties. Which translation are you recommending these days?

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@piersmorgan Replace master class with disaster class. Goal was against the run of play. Then England parked the bus and did so very poorly. Argentina might have scored 5. Does England have the depth to bench Saka? They aren’t Spain or France. #ArgentinaEngland #WorldCup

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@TrollFootball Truth be told this match looks a lot closer to the over 40 men’s league I play in on Sundays than what we saw yesterday in France vs Spain #argentinaengland #worldcup

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@JosinaAnderson It’s wonderful a lot of people who don’t watch much soccer are tuning in, but that’s an uncontroversial penalty. Tracking the ball with one’s eyes is totally irrelevant in this sport. An attacking player was kicked in the box by a defender who didn’t touch the ball. Case closed

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@MadridPreeti This is a completely obvious and uncontroversial penalty. The upper arm is not the hand and the call has nothing to do with Argentina.

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@STiofainSF @sfstandard Much to the contrary, anyone that knows anything understands that the Bay Area has the best food in the US—including, apparently, Michelin.

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You’ve got to give the card for simulation. Clear and obvious decision. @BreelEmbolo97 made a moral mistake: he shouldn’t be diving. But also a tactical one: he needs to know he’s on a yellow and there’s so little to gain this far from goal. #argentina #switzerland #worldcup

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This isn’t a “good run” for the #USMNT. The US had a strong team 25 years ago. They’ve regressed relative to the rest of the world. The lack of technique on display was almost impossible to watch.

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@AdamCrafton_ @TheAthleticFC This is the most sensible thing that’s been said thus far: @RoyalBelgianFA this isn’t your affair.

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@SeppBlatter Folks when @SeppBlatter speaks about corruption we should all listen: https://t.co/f6uxZIOjKQ

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@UEFA What an arrogant statement from a continent that thinks it holds the moral center but actually sits in the peanut gallery.

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@Betsycashmoney He’s essentially an elite specialist (free kicks) and passable at everything else so Reggie Miller is the best comp.

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@vanranstmarc @stoolpresidente There are actually a lot of things you don’t have

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@hf_niko @FabrizioRomano Nope. What an absurd and illogical reply. Teams shouldn’t protest the disciplinary rulings of a game they weren’t involved in. Looks weak and unsporting to wish for a player to be wrongfully unavailable.

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@norway should be totally embarrassed about their capitulation today in the #worldcup. Everything to play for (avoiding CIV and then Brazil) vs a weak Germany, fans traveling, and they refuse to compete vs a France side on questionable form? This was the country of the Vikings?

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@FiddlesPicks This makes it even clearer that it’s Wemby’s fault. Either you hit the guard off zero or one dribbles or you’re taking it up yourself. My sense is he wanted to take it up himself, saw Brunson, and passed out of panic. Not good.

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@grok @teapot_russells @bryanbartlett @JimSTruthBTold @LVpolitic @gusmac2 @grok Is it possible that it’s just a function of sorting and reporting order? In other words, someone tallies all the Bass votes in a given tranche of mail-ins and reports them all at once, and so too for the other candidates?

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@EL_modirista This is the straw man to end all straw men. Who doesn’t think Zidane was magnificent in the 1998 World Cup from start to finish, including the final?

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@unusual_whales What kind of retort is this? The “speaking German” line is meant to invoke Nazism, that the US saved England from the takeover of a totalitarian regime. What is so bad about “speaking French”? Is the argument that England saved the US from fine wine, cheese and high fashion?