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Indy is just finding its legs as a soccer city, so one might not grasp the enormity of the match being played tonight at Lucas Oil Stadium between England's top team, Chelsea, and Italy's finest, Inter. The match is expected to bring a throng of 40,000 spectators, more than 150 members of the world media, and receive TV coverage in more than 150 countries.
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"Each day well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this one day for it, and it alone, is life"
~ Sanskrit poem attributed to Kalidasa, "Salutation to the Dawn"
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35,000 Little league soccer players, the 3,000 soccer parents that got sucked into car pooling them to the game and 2,000 Europeans or South Americans who live in Indianapolis who are gonna get as rowdy as hell.
"Ooh woo, I'm a Rebel just for kicks, nowI been feeling it since 1966, now..."
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I'm feeling a little verklempt."The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
~~Groucho Marx
I have the hots for Khaleesi...Comment
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I probably would have taken my older boy if tickets were cheaper and the game were played in the afternoon. This is a pretty big deal on the soccer scene.
BTW, regarding the article.
Over time, it's evolved to be defined as the noun form of the adjective "enormous." Very similar to "notoriety."Enormity: The great or extreme scale, seriousness, or extent of something perceived as bad or morally wrong.No weather forecasts are ever guaranteed, even if confidence level is high. Even a 99% probability will miss 1% of the time. That's the best anybody can do when predicting highly complex events.Comment
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Frank would have taken your shift and picked up the tickets if you asked him nicely.
The ginormity of his genorousity is enumerous."The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
~~Groucho Marx
I have the hots for Khaleesi...Comment
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Good catch Ren!
How 'bout "enormousness"?
There's really no such thing as Gary the Moose, Sybil.Comment
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Yeah, that's the problem: "enormous" doesn't have a useful noun form.
I have no problem with enormity evolving to a neutral meaning though. English is a living language.No weather forecasts are ever guaranteed, even if confidence level is high. Even a 99% probability will miss 1% of the time. That's the best anybody can do when predicting highly complex events.Comment
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Just saw an interview on the local news. Looks like they're expecting over 40,000 for the game.
Not bad, but I would have thought they could darn near sell out Lucas Oil Stadium for a rare event like this. They'll be about 20,000 short of that (they can't use the full football capacity because of the larger playing field).No weather forecasts are ever guaranteed, even if confidence level is high. Even a 99% probability will miss 1% of the time. That's the best anybody can do when predicting highly complex events.Comment
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Kind of makes me smile, out here in the KC area, knowing we've actually got something that's AHEAD of Indianapolis by about 20 years...
That said, I still wish they stayed known as the Wizards...
"I didn't hear a single comment about airboxes, "carbashians", or how terrible the car looked. I did see dozens and dozens of little kids in awe of the speed and how cool the cars looked. We should learn from our children."
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A new NASL team will start in Indy next year. The new NASL is considered a Division II league, right below MLS. One NASL team (Montreal Impact) was recently promoted to MLS.
I don't know if pro soccer will succeed in Indy (and this isn't the first time it's been tried). But, who knows? Maybe we'll have an MLS team some day.No weather forecasts are ever guaranteed, even if confidence level is high. Even a 99% probability will miss 1% of the time. That's the best anybody can do when predicting highly complex events.Comment
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I'd like to go to tonight's match, but the ticket prices are too steep for me. I checked for the best seat I could get at the highest price I was willing to pay ($67), and Ticketmaster came up with section 450 (top level behind the north goal). No thanks.
I'll probably try to go to some Indy Eleven matches next year, where tickets are likely to be more reasonably priced."If there is a place on Earth synonymous with race cars, it is Indianapolis." -- Bernie Ecclestone
"No matter where you go in the world, you say Indianapolis and they don't think about football or basketball, they think about the race." -- Richard PettyComment
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I heard $25 for an Indy Eleven season ticket.Originally posted by indysteve View Post
(EDIT: Nevermind, that's just the deposit. Season tickets are $135 to $390 for 15 home games.)
For tonight's game, they said there are still tickets available in the $30 range, but I assume they aren't very good seats.No weather forecasts are ever guaranteed, even if confidence level is high. Even a 99% probability will miss 1% of the time. That's the best anybody can do when predicting highly complex events.Comment
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Immensity?Originally posted by Ren Butler View PostManus haec inimica tyrannis ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.Comment
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I've started getting more into soccer over the last year or two, really after Fenway Sports Group bought Liverpool and we started getting their games on NESN.
We have the Revs, who had a run of being MLS-good and are now rebuilding. I have a bunch of friends out in Seattle, and love the city, so the Sounders are probably my favorite MLS team. They're one of the few US teams that can come close to filling an NFL stadium. The Revolution are looking to build a soccer-focused stadium closer to Boston (i.e. on the T), and the two sites being looked at are Revere and Somerville. While Revere has a certain name synergy, Somerville would be a much better fit, since it would be a train stop or two away from a large Brazilian community and just a stop farther from a hipster enclave full of the general sort who pack Sounders games. If they build it near Assembly Square, the Assembly Grounds has a nice, British stadium ring to it.Manus haec inimica tyrannis ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.Comment
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