Tuesday, November 29, 2022

11/29: World Cup Group Stage: Round 2 of Matches

Iran offsides goal vs. Wales:

Iran triple chance vs. Wales:

Wales red card vs. Iran:

Iran 1st goal vs. Wales:

Iran 2nd goal vs. Wales (Iran win 2-0):

Senegal 1st goal vs. Qatar:

Senegal 2nd goal vs. Qatar:

Senegal save vs. Qatar:

Qatar goal vs. Senegal:

Senegal 3rd goal vs. Qatar (Senegal win 3-1):

Netherlands goal vs. Ecuador:

Ecuador off crossbar vs. Netherlands (match finishes 1-1): 

Pulisic off crossbar for USA vs. England (match finishes 0-0):

Australia goal vs. Tunisia (Australia wins 1-0):

Poland 1st goal vs. Saudi Arabia:

Poland penalty double save vs. Saudi Arabia:

Saudi Arabia nutmeg/shot vs. Poland:

Poland 2nd goal vs. Saudi Arabia (Poland wins 2-0):

France 2nd goal vs. Denmark (France win 2-1):

Argentina 1st goal vs. Mexico:

Argentina 2nd goal vs. Mexico (Argentina win 2-0):

Costa Rica crazy stop vs. Japan (Costa Rica win 1-0):

Morocco 2nd goal vs. Belgium (Morocco win 2-0):

Canada goal vs. Croatia:

Croatia 1st goal vs. Canada:

Croatia 2nd goal vs. Canada:

Canada save vs. Croatia:

Croatia 3rd goal vs. Canada:

Croatia 4th goal vs. Canada (Croatia wins 4-1):

All four goals for Croatia included a nutmeg. The first two had a nutmeg in the buildup to the goal, the third one was shot directly through the defender's legs for the goal, and the fourth one bounced through a defender's legs on the buildup.

Spain rocket shot/Germany save off crossbar:

Spain goal vs. Germany:

Germany goal vs. Spain (match finishes 1-1):

Serbia chance off post vs. Cameroon:

Cameroon 1st goal vs. Serbia:

Serbia 1st goal vs. Cameroon:

Serbia 2nd goal vs. Cameroon:

Serbia 3rd goal vs. Cameroon:

Cameroon 2nd goal vs. Serbia:

Cameroon 3rd goal vs. Serbia (match finished 3-3):

Ghana 1st goal vs. South Korea:

Ghana 2nd goal vs. South Korea:

Ghana save vs. South Korea:

South Korea 1st goal vs. Ghana:

South Korea 2nd goal vs. Ghana:

Ghana 3rd goal vs. South Korea:

Ghana save vs. South Korea (Ghana wins 3-2):

Brazil goal vs. Switzerland (Brazil wins 1-0):

Bentancur run for Uruguay vs. Portugal:

Portugal 1st goal vs. Uruguay:

Uruguay off post vs. Portugal:

Bruno Fernandes nutmeg/penalty for Portugal 2nd goal vs. Uruguay (Portugal win 2-0):
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Monday, November 28, 2022

11/28: World Cup Group Stage: Round 1 of Matches

Ecuador 2nd goal vs. Qatar (Ecuador wins 2-0):

England first goal vs. Iran:

England 2nd goal vs. Iran:

Iran 1st goal vs. England:

England 5th goal vs. Iran (England win 6-2):

Rashford run vs. Iran:

Netherlands save vs. Senegal:

Netherlands 1st goal vs. Senegal (Netherlands win 2-0):

USA goal vs. Wales (match finishes in a 1-1 draw):

Argentina goal vs. Saudi Arabia:

Messi disallowed goal vs. Saudi Arabia:

Saudi Arabia 2nd goal vs. Argentina (Saudi Arabia win 2-1):

Tunisia save vs. Denmark (match finishes 0-0):

Mexico penalty save vs. Poland:

Mexico crowd reaction to penalty save:

Poland save vs. Mexico (match finishes 0-0):

Australia goal vs. France:

France 1st goal vs. Australia:

France 2nd goal vs. Australia:

France 3rd goal vs. Australia:

France 4th goal vs. Australia (France win 4-1):

Japan 4 saves in a row vs. Germany:

Japan 1st goal vs. Germany:

Japan 2nd goal vs. Germany (Japan wins 2-1):

Japan celebrations vs. Germany:

Spain 1st goal vs. Costa Rica:

Spain 2nd goal vs. Costa Rica:

Spain 4th goal vs. Costa Rica:

Spain 5th goal vs. Costa Rica:

Spain 6th goal vs. Costa Rica:

Spain 7th goal vs. Costa Rica (Spain win 7-0):

Switzerland goal vs. Cameroon (Switzerland win 1-0):

Valverde shot for Uruguay vs. South Korea (match finishes 0-0):

Ghana 1st goal vs. Portugal:

Portugal 3rd goal vs. Ghana:

Crazy play at end of Ghana vs. Portugal game (Portugal wins 3-2):

Serbia save vs. Brazil off Neymar attempted Olimpico:

Brazil nice ball/Serbia save:

Brazil off post vs. Serbia:

Brazil 2nd goal vs. Serbia:

Brazil off crossbar vs. Serbia (Brazil win 2-0):
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

11/15: Premier League Week 16

This was the last round of matches in the Premier League before the World Cup. Brentford took down City and Manchester United pulled out a last gasp win over Fulham with a goal from rising star 18 year old Alejandro Garnacho, with the dramatic winners in both games coming in stoppage time.

United's game was the last game in the Premier League before the World Cup.

City goal vs. Brentford:

Brentford 2nd goal vs. City:

Manchester United first goal vs. Fulham:

De Gea save vs. Fulham:

Fulham goal vs. Manchester United:

Manchester United 2nd goal vs. Fulham:

Liverpool 2nd goal vs. Southampton:

Liverpool 3rd goal vs. Southampton:

Leicester 1st goal vs. West Ham:

Leicester 2nd goal vs. West Ham:

Leeds 1st goal vs. Tottenham:

Tottenham 1st goal vs. Leeds:

Leeds 2nd goal vs. Tottenham:

Tottenham 2nd goal vs. Leeds:

Leeds 3rd goal vs. Tottenham:

Tottenham 3rd goal vs. Leeds:

Tottenham 4th goal vs. Leeds:

Newcastle save vs. Chelsea:

Newcastle winning goal vs. Chelsea:

Gabriel Jesus off the crossbar for Arsenal vs. Wolves:

Arsenal 1st goal vs. Wolves:

Aston Villa save vs. Brighton:

Aston Villa off post and nice tackle leading up to 2nd goal vs. Brighton:
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11/15: League Cup

In Manchester United's first League Cup fixture of the season on Thursday, they came in looking for revenge against Aston Villa, after Villa had torched them 3-1 in the Premier League just four days before on Sunday. After a very uneventful first half, the game exploded into life in the second half. It didn't start out well for United, as just a couple minutes into the half Villa cut through the defense to go up 1-0. But just 19 seconds after the game restarted, United hit back with an equalizer! Now 1-1 and level again, it seemed like the next goal could decide the game, and things looked bleak for United again after Villa scored off a United own goal to go up 2-1. 

But a few minutes later, Rashford stormed in with a wonderful goal to equalize again for United 2-2!! Bruno Fernandes put United ahead for the first time in the 78th minute off a big deflection, and then in stoppage time United sealed the victory to move on to the next round with McTominay putting it away off of an incredible ball in by 18 year old Alejandro Garnacho, a young Spanish born Argentinian winger who has really been impressing in recent weeks.

So after a 0-0 first half, 6 goals ended up being scored in the 2nd half between the two teams.

Here are the highlights of the game, it's a nice short 2 minute video:

The top two highlights were the Rashford goal and the Garnacho ball, here they are:

Rashford goal:

Garnacho ball for McTominay stoppage time goal:
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11/15: Machado/Harper/Judge/Pujols/Ohtani

It's literally insane how similar Manny Machado and Bryce Harper's careers have been. And despite what everyone would think, the stats show Manny Machado's been better. It's especially because of his defensive value, overall in their careers so far Manny Machado has 52.0 WAR and Bryce Harper has 42.5 WAR. So of the rookie class of 2012, it goes:
             1. Mike Trout
             2. Manny Machado
             3. Bryce Harper

Who would have thought? But anyway it is literally so so insane how similar their offensive statistics are. Here they are:

Manny Machado

.282 283 HR 853 RBI 312 2B 1597 H 839 R 18 3B 2794 TB 52.0 WAR

Bryce Harper

.280 285 HR 817 RBI 298 2B 1379 H 913 R 23 3B 2578 TB 42.5 WAR

162 Game Avg.

Manny: .282 32 HR 96 RBI 35 2B 2 3B 10 SB 313 TB 5.8 WAR
Bryce:   .280 33 HR 96 RBI 35 2B 3 3B 14 SB 302 TB 5.0 WAR



Judge's 2022 season is the 2nd highest wRC+ ever by someone not named Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, Ted Williams, or Rogers Hornsby, after Mickey Mantle's 217 in 1957. Judge had a 207 wRC+. It's the highest since 1957, no one has legitimately gotten over 200 since Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams both did in 1957.

wRC+ is the best single measure of hitting, it combines everything really well into one stat.



Pujols won 3 MVPs, in 2005, 2008, and 2009. But he should have won 6 or 7.

He deserved it in 2003, when he got cheated by Bonds (9.2 WAR for Bonds to 8.7 for Pujols, Pujols was 2nd in the voting and 2nd in WAR)

He also deserved it in:

2006 (5.2 Ryan Howard to 8.5 Pujols, 2nd in MVP voting, led league in WAR)

2007 (6.1 Jimmy Rollins to 8.7 Pujols, 7 other guys after Rollins in the voting before Pujols, he finished 9th in voting, led league in WAR)

And potentially in 2010 (7.0 Joey Votto to 7.5 Pujols, 2nd in voting, led league in WAR for position players, Roy Halladay had 8.3)

He also led the league in WAR in all three years he actually did win MVP.

So he definitely deserved it in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, and potentially in 2010. 

So Pujols should have won 6 or 7 MVPs, including 5 straight in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.

He was ridiculously consistently excellent for the first 11 years of his career when he was in St. Louis, starting from the very beginning in his rookie year in 2001. He was at MVP level every year from 2003 to 2010, and was insanely insanely consistent about it.

This is his WAR each year in those years:

2003: 8.7
2004: 8.5
2005: 8.4
2006: 8.5
2007: 8.7
2008: 9.2
2009: 9.7
2010: 7.5

I've never ever seen anything else like that.



Shohei Ohtani won the World Series when he was in Japan!! I didn't know that.

He won the MVP in 2016 after he led the league in both OPS and ERA, then led his team to the championship that year, including a walk-off single in Game 3 of the World Series when his team was down 2 games to 0.

I looked into his whole playoff history in Japan and learned all about it after I saw he won the World Series there.

Ohtani was a rookie as an 18/19 year old in 2013 for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, that's who he played all 5 years for in Japan from 2013-2017. His first playoffs was in 2014 as a 20 year old, he won his first ever playoff start in Game 1 of his first ever playoff series, against the Orix Buffaloes. His team won the series after the last game was delayed for a day by Typhoon Vongfong.

They lost in the next series that decided the pennant 4-3 to the eventual champion Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.

The Hawks won the World Series the next year in 2015 too.

In 2016, Ohtani led the league in OPS (1.004) and ERA (1.86), won the MVP, and led his team to the World Series title.

To get to the World Series, they had to get through Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. In Game 1, Ohtani started and went 7 scoreless innings with only one hit allowed vs the team with the league's best on base percentage, while he went 1-2 at the plate, and his team won 6-0.

Ohtani got on base at least once and scored in every game of the series, and then in the last game he came in and shut Fukuoka down for the save to send his team to the World Series, retiring all three hitters he faced, striking out 2 of them, and throwing 2 pitches at 165 kph (102.5 mph), which broke the NPB record he set in September of 164 kph, which broke the record of 163 he set in June.

In the World Series, Ohtani took the loss in Game 1, but he went 6 innings with 3 ER and 11 strikeouts and went 2-3 at the plate.

His team also lost Game 2 and went down 2-0 in the series.

But Ohtani came up big in game 3, he hit 2 doubles earlier in the game and then hit a walk-off single in the 10th.

After that they won the next three games in a row to win the World Series, the 3rd one ever for the Nippon-Ham Fighters.

Overall, Ohtani hit .375/.412/.625 with 4 doubles in the World Series.

That year, on top of everything else, he also won the Home Run Derby and All Star Game MVP.


       This video is Ohtani's 2016 season highlights, I set it to start at a good place in the video. There's some really good highlights and then about a minute and a half after where I started it it enters the final part of the video with really good stirring music in the background, starting with the game where Ohtani's team clinched the Pacific League top spot, with him on the mound throwing a 1-0 shutout with 15 strikeouts. Then it goes to the playoffs and all of his highlights from the playoffs including his walk-off single in the World Series.

      This video starts with Ohtani's team down 2-1 in the 8th inning of game 3, about to go down 3-0 in the series. His teammate hits a double to the outfield and scores 2 runs, including Ohtani zooming around and sliding in to put them up 3-2.

       The other team, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, scored one in the 9th to tie the game 3-3 and send it into extras. That set it up for Ohtani's walk-off single here in the 10th.
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Thursday, November 10, 2022

11/10: End of MLB Playoffs

I made several videos for the rest of the playoffs, including two for the ALCS/NLCS and one for the World Series. Like last time these are not comprehensive of all of the top highlights in the playoffs, just ones that stuck out to me the most or that I liked the most. Haha also I left out things like the Bryce Harper series winning home run in the NLCS or the Chas McCormick catch at the wall in the World Series, for obvious reasons.

Here are the highlight videos for the ALCS and NLCS:


And here is the one for the World Series:


Also I made several videos of Manny Machado's highlights from the playoffs. Here are his highlights from the Wild Card Series vs. the Mets:


The NLDS vs. the Dodgers:


And the NLCS vs. the Phillies:


And I made one video for Manny Machado's top highlights from the playoffs:

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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

11/9: Premier League Week 15

Brentford 2nd goal vs. Nottingham Forest:

City first goal vs. Fulham:

Bournemouth 2nd goal vs. Leeds:

Bournemouth 3rd goal vs. Leeds:

Leeds 2nd goal vs. Bournemouth:

Leeds 4th goal vs. Bournemouth and celebration:

Brighton 1st goal vs. Wolves:

Wolves 1st goal vs. Brighton:

Brighton 2nd goal vs. Wolves:

Brighton 3rd goal vs. Wolves:

Leicester 1st goal vs. Everton:

Leicester 2nd goal vs. Everton:

Liverpool 1st goal vs. Tottenham:

Liverpool 2nd goal vs. Tottenham:

Newcastle 1st goal vs. Southampton:

Newcastle 2nd goal celebration in the pouring rain:

Newcastle 3rd goal vs. Southampton:

Southampton goal vs. Newcastle:

Newcastle 4th goal vs. Southampton:

Aston Villa first goal vs. Manchester United:

Aston Villa 2nd goal vs. Manchester United:

Aston Villa 3rd goal vs. Manchester United:

West Ham goal vs. Crystal Palace:

Crystal Palace 1st goal vs. West Ham:
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11/9: Europa League Week 6

Manchester United goal vs. Real Sociedad:

De Gea double save vs. Real Sociedad:

Union Berlin goal vs. Union Saint-Gilloise:

Real Betis first goal vs. HJK:

Nantes 1st goal vs. Olympiacos:

Nantes 2nd goal vs. Olympiacos:

Feyenoord go from bottom of the group to the top in the pouring rain:

Sheriff goal vs. Omonoia:

Arsenal goal vs. Zurich:

Ludogorets goal vs. Roma:

PSV 2nd goal vs. Bodo/Glimt:

Qarabag foul for Freiburg penalty:

Monaco 1st goal vs. Red Star Belgrade:

Monaco 4th goal vs. Red Star Belgrade:
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11/9: Champions League Week 6

Tottenham off crossbar vs. Marseille:

Tottenham 2nd goal vs. Marseille:

Frankfurt 2nd goal vs. Sporting Lisbon:

Ajax first goal vs. Rangers:

Bayern 2nd goal vs. Inter:

Porto 2nd goal vs. Atletico:

Brugge off crossbar vs. Leverkusen:

Brugge save vs. Leverkusen:

Milan 3rd goal vs. Salzburg:

Madrid 3rd goal vs. Celtic:

Madrid 5th goal vs. Celtic:

Celtic goal vs. Madrid:

PSG 1st goal vs. Juventus:

PSG 2nd goal vs. Juventus:

Benfica 2nd goal vs. Maccabi Haifa:

Benfica 3rd goal vs. Maccabi Haifa:

Benfica 5th goal vs. Maccabi Haifa:

Benfica 6th goal vs. Maccabi Haifa:
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11/9: Premier League Week 14

City goal vs. Leicester:

City save vs. Leicester:

Chelsea save off line vs. Brighton:

Thiago Silva another save off line right after:

Beautiful ball for Brighton 3rd goal vs. Chelsea:

Bournemouth first goal vs. Tottenham:

Bournemouth 2nd goal vs. Tottenham:

Newcastle 2nd goal vs. Aston Villa:

Newcastle 4th goal vs. Aston Villa:

Brentford goal vs. Wolves:

Wolves goal vs. Brentford:

Everton save vs. Fulham:

Liverpool goal vs. Leeds:

Leeds off crossbar vs. Liverpool:

Leeds saves vs. Liverpool:

Leeds 2nd goal vs. Liverpool:

Manchester United goal vs. West Ham:

De Gea saves vs. West Ham:

Arsenal 1st goal vs. Nottingham Forest:

Arsenal 4th goal vs. Nottingham Forest:

Arsenal 5th goal vs. Nottingham Forest:
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11/9: Europa League Week 5

Manchester United 2nd goal vs. Sheriff Tiraspol:

Real Sociedad 2nd goal vs. Omonoia:

Sturm Graz goal vs. Feyenoord:

Red Star Belgrade first goal vs. Trabzonspor:

HJK disallowed 2nd goal vs. Roma:

Monaco goal vs. Ferencvaros:

Real Betis goal vs. Ludogorets:

AEK Larnaca 1st goal vs. Dynamo Kyiv:

AEK Larnaca 2nd goal vs. Dynamo Kyiv:

Midtjylland goal vs. Lazio:

Lazio first goal vs. Midtjylland:

Bodo/Glimt save vs. Zurich:

Zurich 2nd goal vs. Bodo/Glimt:

Arsenal goal vs. PSV:

PSV 1st goal vs. Arsenal:

Qarabag off post vs. Nantes:

Nantes 2nd goal vs. Qarabag:

Rennes 1st goal vs. Fenerbahce:

Fenerbahce 2nd goal vs. Rennes:

Fenerbahce 3rd goal vs. Rennes:

In this game, Teddy Teuma got a goal and an assist in a 2-0 win for Union Saint-Gilloise. Teuma is of Maltese descent and plays for the Malta national team, and is the captain of Union Saint Gilloise. Here they clinched winning their group with one game to spare: 

Union Saint-Gilloise 1st goal vs. Malmo:

Union Saint-Gilloise 2nd goal vs. Malmo:
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11/9: Champions League Week 5

Sevilla 2nd goal vs. Copenhagen:

Chelsea first goal vs. Salzburg:

Passing buildup to Chelsea chance vs. Salzburg:

Salzburg goal vs. Chelsea:

Chelsea 2nd goal vs. Salzburg:

Shakhtar goal vs. Celtic:

Mudryk run leading up to missed chance for Shakhtar:

Leipzig 2nd goal vs. Madrid:

Madrid 1st goal vs. Leipzig:

Leipzig 3rd goal vs. Madrid:

Benfica 3rd goal vs. Juventus:

Juventus 2nd goal vs. Benfica:

PSG 1st goal vs. Maccabi Haifa:

PSG 2nd goal vs. Maccabi Haifa:

PSG 3rd goal vs. Maccabi Haifa:

PSG 4th goal vs. Maccabi Haifa:

PSG 5th goal vs. Maccabi Haifa:

PSG 7th goal vs. Maccabi Haifa:

Liverpool 1st goal vs. Ajax:

Liverpool 3rd goal vs. Ajax:

Napoli off crossbar vs. Rangers:

Napoli 3rd goal vs. Rangers:

Frankfurt 1st goal vs. Marseille:

Marseille goal vs. Frankfurt:

Frankfurt 2nd goal vs. Marseille:

Inter 2nd goal vs. Viktoria Plzen:

Atletico Madrid 2nd goal vs. Leverkusen:

Leverkusen crazy penalty escape at the end:

Porto first goal vs. Brugge:
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11/9: Premier League Week 13

Manchester United goal vs. Chelsea:

Dean Henderson stoppage time save for Nottingham Forest vs. Liverpool:

City first goal vs Brighton:

City 3rd goal vs Brighton:

Everton 1st goal vs. Palace:

Everton 3rd goal vs. Palace:

Newcastle 1st goal vs. Tottenham:

Newcastle 2nd goal vs. Tottenham:

Leicester 1st goal vs. Wolves:

Leicester 2nd goal vs. Wolves:

Leicester 3rd goal vs. Wolves:

Leicester 4th goal vs. Wolves:

Leeds save off the line vs. Fulham:

Fulham 2nd goal vs. Leeds:

Fulham 3rd goal vs. Leeds:

Leeds 2nd goal vs. Fulham:

Aston Villa 1st goal vs. Brentford:

Aston Villa 2nd goal vs. Brentford:

Aston Villa 4th goal vs. Brentford:

Arsenal goal vs. Southampton:

Southampton goal vs. Arsenal:

Arsenal disallowed goal vs. Southampton:
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

11/8: Premier League Week 12

Manchester United 2nd goal vs. Tottenham:

Antony off post vs. Tottenham:

Lloris save vs. Rashford:

Southampton goal vs. Bournemouth:

West Ham save vs Liverpool:

Liverpool goal vs. West Ham:

Darwin Nunez off post vs. West Ham:

Newcastle goal vs. Everton:

Leicester 2nd goal vs. Leeds:
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