US SOCCER

[tribe_pride]

Jose Altidore should be back for Belgium game.

Kompany, Vermaelen, Ciman, Vanden Borre, Fellaini questionable or doubtful for Belgium.

I believe he is medically cleared but not certain to play. With only 3 subs allowed per game and a strained hammy this recently, I doubt he starts. Don't want to waste a sub on a player who reinjures himself very early.

From what I have read, he has jogged but has not done cutting or tougher things.

[MSUDuo]

He's a must start. Too valuable not to take the risk and if you don't start him you're not going to use him. A lot easier to sub him off at 20 minutes then sub him in and then take him off again.

[clenz]

Drive the width of Kansas east to west on 70 and then let me know how excited you are. Yeah, yeah, I know - get off the interstate. That's what we did once we got to where we wanted to start exploring, which was CO, UT, AZ.

Seriously, you'll want to set wheat fields on fire (because you won't see any people to punch) by the time you're done.

I drove I70 from western PA, through a sliver of WV, across OH, halfway across Indiana to Indianapolis. I've also driven a stretch of it in UT, but not in between.

Indianapolis to Denver on I70, including across Kansas. Close to 1100 miles. Other than St Louis and Kansas City no other cities that I see over 200k. Hundreds of miles of farm fields. Probably close to 1k miles of rural & farm fields.

Indianapolis to Denver on I80, over 1100 miles, including across Iowa & Nebraska. Des Moines, Omaha & Lincoln. only cities cross through over 200k in that 1k miles. Probably close to 1k miles of rural & farm fields.

Do you really think there is much difference driving across Kansas on I70 and Iowa & Nebraska on I80?

Do you really belive that the DSM metro is only 200k?

You're a fucking maroon

[tribe_pride]

He's a must start. Too valuable not to take the risk and if you don't start him you're not going to use him. A lot easier to sub him off at 20 minutes then sub him in and then take him off again.

Only start (or for that matter play him) if he shows that he can cut and run for a while. From what I read, he hasn't done that yet. I don't want the US wasting a player (meaning potential sub) if he hasn't proven he can do that many more times than once.

[BDKJMU]

I agree, some of us enjoy driving. This past Spring gf and I spent the night in Prairie Du Chen, WI, across the Mississippi from Iowa. Crossed the Mississippi into Iowa, visited Effigy Mounds National Monument and Pikes Peak State Park. Drove across northern Iowa, including stopping in Waterloo and Cedar Falls, and overnighted in Sioux City, where visited the Louis & Clark Interpretive Center the next morning before crossing the Missouri into Nebraska.

Nebraska stopped at Ponca State Park and drove across about 1/2 of northern Nebraska on Hwy 12, the "Outlaw Trail". Stopped at Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refugee and overnighted in Valentine before crossing into S Dakota the next day. Also a few years ago spent a night in Omaha.
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Kansas I have spent several nights in Kansas City and also driven a small portion of southeastern Kansas on Route 66.

From my experience Nebraska and Kansas certainly aren't "**** terrible" compared to Iowa.

Biggest cities among the 3 states (wiki, us census 12' estimate):
1. Omaha, NE: 421k
2. Witchita, KS: 385k
3. Lincoln, NE: 265k
4. Des Moines, IA: 207k
5. Overland Park, KS: 178k
6. Kansas City: 147k (largest metro)
I don't see how you can say Nebraska and Kansas certainly are "**** terrible" compared to Iowa.

The Des Moines metro is well over 1 million people.

Omaha's metro is boosted by the fact that Council Bluffs, IA is right with it.

Nebraska is garbage. Out of the 1.8 million people that live in that state about 1.3 live in the Omaha/Lincoln corridor.

If you've driven all the way through the two states you'd know that Iowa, while nothing special, is eleventybillion percent better

Current state /local tax rankings from highest to lowest. Very comparable, all about avg.
25. NE 9.4%
26. Kansas 9.4%
29. Iowa 9.3%
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Again, I see the 3 as comparable overall.

[CitadelGrad]

Drive the width of Kansas east to west on 70 and then let me know how excited you are. Yeah, yeah, I know - get off the interstate. That's what we did once we got to where we wanted to start exploring, which was CO, UT, AZ.

Seriously, you'll want to set wheat fields on fire (because you won't see any people to punch) by the time you're done in KS.

I have made that trip many, many times. The wheat fields aren't the worst of it. When you're west of Garden City, driving at night, you can't see the tumbleweeds and take evasive measures before they broadside your care.

[93henfan]

Drive the width of Kansas east to west on 70 and then let me know how excited you are. Yeah, yeah, I know - get off the interstate. That's what we did once we got to where we wanted to start exploring, which was CO, UT, AZ.

Seriously, you'll want to set wheat fields on fire (because you won't see any people to punch) by the time you're done.

I drove I70 from western PA, through a sliver of WV, across OH, halfway across Indiana to Indianapolis. I've also driven a stretch of it in UT, but not in between.

Indianapolis to Denver on I70, including across Kansas. Close to 1100 miles. Other than St Louis and Kansas City no other cities that I see over 200k. Hundreds of miles of farm fields. Probably close to 1k miles of rural & farm fields.

Indianapolis to Denver on I80, over 1100 miles, including across Iowa & Nebraska. Des Moines, Omaha & Lincoln. only cities cross through over 200k in that 1k miles. Probably close to 1k miles of rural & farm fields.

Do you really think there is much difference driving across Kansas on I70 and Iowa & Nebraska on I80?

You are such an irritating person.

I''m not even going to respond to your post.

You're just an irritating, antisocial twit.

Do you know any good jokes maybe? Anything to give you some redeeming quality on this site?

[89Hen]

Some of us don't get two weeks off work in a row. 7 day vacation with 2-4 days of driving... no thanks.

Most people that get a week get 9 days: 2 days off, 5 days vacation, 2 days off. 9 days with 2 days, 3 tops I can see. 4 days no.

It's still only 7 days of vacation. Driving =/= Vacation. We go to OIB, NC every year and that's 7-8 hours each way depending on traffic. That's my max. I've done the south Florida drive and we swore we would never do it again. I do have to remind Mrs89 of that every time she even thinks of driving to FLA. The other big advantage to flying is you get to trash a rental car while you're there... sand, sunscreen, ice cream... who cares?

[BDKJMU]

I drove I70 from western PA, through a sliver of WV, across OH, halfway across Indiana to Indianapolis. I've also driven a stretch of it in UT, but not in between.

Indianapolis to Denver on I70, including across Kansas. Close to 1100 miles. Other than St Louis and Kansas City no other cities that I see over 200k. Hundreds of miles of farm fields. Probably close to 1k miles of rural & farm fields.

Indianapolis to Denver on I80, over 1100 miles, including across Iowa & Nebraska. Des Moines, Omaha & Lincoln. only cities cross through over 200k in that 1k miles. Probably close to 1k miles of rural & farm fields.

Do you really think there is much difference driving across Kansas on I70 and Iowa & Nebraska on I80?

Do you really belive that the DSM metro is only 200k?

You're a **** maroon

I never said metro. I said cities. Reading is fundamental. Looks like you're the maroon..

[BDKJMU]

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[BDKJMU]

Most people that get a week get 9 days: 2 days off, 5 days vacation, 2 days off. 9 days with 2 days, 3 tops I can see. 4 days no.

It's still only 7 days of vacation. Driving =/= Vacation. We go to OIB, NC every year and that's 7-8 hours each way depending on traffic. That's my max. I've done the south Florida drive and we swore we would never do it again. I do have to remind Mrs89 of that every time she even thinks of driving to FLA. The other big advantage to flying is you get to trash a rental car while you're there... sand, sunscreen, ice cream... who cares?

Its still 9 days off.

[Ibanez]

It's still only 7 days of vacation. Driving =/= Vacation. We go to OIB, NC every year and that's 7-8 hours each way depending on traffic. That's my max. I've done the south Florida drive and we swore we would never do it again. I do have to remind Mrs89 of that every time she even thinks of driving to FLA. The other big advantage to flying is you get to trash a rental car while you're there... sand, sunscreen, ice cream... who cares?

Its still 9 days off.

Are you counting weekends? Generally, people don't include weekends in their PTO total.

[Ibanez]

I drove I70 from western PA, through a sliver of WV, across OH, halfway across Indiana to Indianapolis. I've also driven a stretch of it in UT, but not in between.

Indianapolis to Denver on I70, including across Kansas. Close to 1100 miles. Other than St Louis and Kansas City no other cities that I see over 200k. Hundreds of miles of farm fields. Probably close to 1k miles of rural & farm fields.

Indianapolis to Denver on I80, over 1100 miles, including across Iowa & Nebraska. Des Moines, Omaha & Lincoln. only cities cross through over 200k in that 1k miles. Probably close to 1k miles of rural & farm fields.

Do you really think there is much difference driving across Kansas on I70 and Iowa & Nebraska on I80?

You are such an irritating person.

I''m not even going to respond to your post.

You're just an irritating, antisocial twit.

Do you know any good jokes maybe? Anything to give you some redeeming quality on this site?

Is this guy Razor's brother?

[clenz]

Driving West on 80 across Iowa breaks up like this

From the River in the quad cities (a metro of 400k) to the Iowa City exit (Iowa City/Cedar Rapids has a metro of over 500k within 20 minutes of I-80) is 1 hour.

From that Iowa City exit to Des Moines (a metro of 1.4 million) is 1.5 hours)

From Des Moines to Council Bluff/Omaha metro (900k) is 1.75 hours.

The drive across the state of Iowa is easily broken up with MAJOR cities and a ton of tourist stops along 80. While it isn't the most scenic route it is pretty damn nice to drive.


Now, lets look at Nebraska.

Omaha/Council Bluffs to Lincoln (300k) is about a half hour. In the first half hour of that state you've seen about 1.2 million of the 1.8 million people in that state.

After Lincoln you've got another 1.5 hours before your next "city", Grand Island/Kearney (48k and 30k each...I'm lumping them together since they are only about 20 minutes apart.).

From Grand Island you've got over 2 hours before your next town over 20k - North Platte (21k)

After that it's a couple hours to the next city of note..Cheyenne or Fort Collins


Nebraska fucking sucks and there's no way around it.

[clenz]

Let's look at Kansas

From the west side of the KC metro (2 million people) to Lawrence (100k)

From Lawrence to the next major metro Topeka (200k) is a half hour.

From Lawrence to Manhattan (60k) is about a half hour

So, you are about an hour and a half into the state and you have now passed all cities of note (over 20-30k) and have nearly 5 hours of kansas left.


Yep, that doesn't suck balls.


Also, why are you leaving out the metro population - especially in places like Des Moines, Kansas City, Omaha, etc...? I could understand if the cities weren't really connected, but the Des Moines MSA is litterally all one city - just like NYC and it's boroughs.

Makes zero sense.

[dbackjon]

Driving through Illinois on I-70 ranks right up there on the terrible list as well...

But that is only two hours of driving, so no biggie...

[Grizalltheway]

Its still 9 days off.

Are you counting weekends? Generally, people don't include weekends in their PTO total.

They're still days you can use for driving.

[MSUDuo]

How the fack did we get on the topic of driving across America?

[BDKJMU]

I'm sick of these British announcers using nil and pitch. If these limeys are going to call the game on Murican TV they should use Murican terms. Its zero and field damn it..

[Ibanez]

Are you counting weekends? Generally, people don't include weekends in their PTO total.

They're still days you can use for driving.

But the term used is "vacation days" that's generally applied to PTO, is it not? I know when I say how much I have saved up, I don't add the weekends to that count.

[bandl]

Vacation days! PTO!

I certainly don't missing worrying about that crap anymore.

[bandl]

I drove I70 from western PA, through a sliver of WV, across OH, halfway across Indiana to Indianapolis. I've also driven a stretch of it in UT, but not in between.

Indianapolis to Denver on I70, including across Kansas. Close to 1100 miles. Other than St Louis and Kansas City no other cities that I see over 200k. Hundreds of miles of farm fields. Probably close to 1k miles of rural & farm fields.

Indianapolis to Denver on I80, over 1100 miles, including across Iowa & Nebraska. Des Moines, Omaha & Lincoln. only cities cross through over 200k in that 1k miles. Probably close to 1k miles of rural & farm fields.

Do you really think there is much difference driving across Kansas on I70 and Iowa & Nebraska on I80?

You are such an irritating person.

I''m not even going to respond to your post.

You're just an irritating, antisocial twit.

Do you know any good jokes maybe? Anything to give you some redeeming quality on this site?

I think the answer you are looking for is..................no.

[89Hen]

They're still days you can use for driving.

But the term used is "vacation days" that's generally applied to PTO, is it not? I know when I say how much I have saved up, I don't add the weekends to that count.

It's semantics. I'm not driving four days for a week off of work and BDK (the one who argued the 7 vs 9) said he isn't either.

[Ibanez]

Vacation days! PTO!

I certainly don't missing worrying about that crap anymore.

Shut up, andy!

[bandl]

Vacation days! PTO!

I certainly don't missing worrying about that crap anymore.

Shut up, andy!

Shove it, Mary!