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Thanks! I just checked and Guardado is 34, so I guess his playing days are coming to an end.

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I dunno. "Riding the Pine" now has a new meaning and I'm not comfortable with it.

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Thanks for the recap, as this match began about the time I hit the hay. What, was the midnight slot not available?

Will Mexico bring their A team, and what happened to the Dos Santos brothers?

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My understanding is that Mexico brought pretty much their A team but with a few exceptions. And the Dos Santos brothers are old now: 31 and 32. Gross!

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I missed the match because we were hanging out with family we haven’t seen since the pandemic (cliche) but thanks to this rundown I feel like I was there in front of the TV, where I really wanted to be.

While we are on the subject of names, can we talk about Arriola? How is nobody talking about this?? “areola: a ring of color, as around the human nipple” —dictionary app

I would financially support the accent aigu for Dike but I would really appreciate the Arriola issue be addressed as well.

Finally, I always believed in the Cristiano Douchebag narrative but then I saw a bunch of videos of him being really kind and gentle toward children fans and children fans with disabilities and since then I’m kind of like well who cares how he treats women or what his face looks like (hot but in a douchey way).

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You've convinced me: Ronaldo contains multitudes.

It's definitely an era of weird names on the MNT. The Dike issue is solved when you speak it out loud, but Arriola...well, he'll always just be Mr. Nipple.

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