{"id":290,"date":"2008-06-15T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-06-15T23:54:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T21:54:56","slug":"checkmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/15\/checkmate\/","title":{"rendered":"Checkmate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might know I have quite a bad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soapboxxer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SoapBoxxer<\/a> addiction. Well, I was just having a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soapboxxer.com\/soapboxx\/15330\" target=\"_blank\">discussion<\/a> and it offered me a good opportunity to flex my wit muscles \/ muscles of wit, whichever you prefer. The conversation went as below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Topic: Holland WILL win it all (Eurocup)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Patofeo2<\/strong>: they won&#8217;t<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Spartz<\/span> <\/em>(that&#8217;s me)<em>: I doubt it, but odds have gone up considerably.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Patofeo2<\/strong>: I have a feeling czech rep. will win all<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Spartz<\/span>:<\/em> Get real.<br \/>\n<strong>Patofeo2<\/strong>: What&#8217;s the wager?<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Spartz<\/span>:<\/em> five!<br \/>\n<strong>Patofeo2<\/strong>: please write the team you think will win. That way I can talk shit to you when they loose \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Spartz<\/span>:<\/em>Czech Republic<br \/>\n<strong>Patofeo2<\/strong>: u bastard!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Checkmate. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looks like i can relate this post to Turkey after all. Turkey just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/main.jhtml?xml=\/sport\/2008\/06\/16\/sfgtur116.xml\" target=\"_blank\">eliminated<\/a> the Czech Republic from the Eurocup in the most spectacular fashion!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turkey last night made history in the most dramatic fashion imaginable by overcoming a two-goal deficit to emerge triumphant in their winner-takes-all Group A showdown with the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jan Koller and Jaroslav Plasil had put the Czechs on course for a quarter-final meeting with Croatia, but <strong>Turkey discarded the script in an unforgettable final 15 minutes with three goals<\/strong>, including two from Nihat Kahveci, to progress to the second stage of a European Championships for only the second time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/main.jhtml?xml=\/sport\/2008\/06\/16\/sfgtur116.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fucking awesome! Since I&#8217;m going to Turkey this September, I&#8217;m rooting for both Holland and Turkey! It&#8217;s great to see &#8216;my teams&#8217; book succes <img decoding=\"async\" onclick=\"grin(':smile:');\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":smile:\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-291\" title=\"sfgtur116\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sfgtur116.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey 3-2!\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Picture: Telegraph<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might know I have quite a bad SoapBoxxer addiction. Well, I was just having a discussion and it offered me a good opportunity to flex my wit muscles \/ muscles of wit, whichever you prefer. The conversation went as below. Topic: Holland WILL win it all (Eurocup) Patofeo2: they won&#8217;t Spartz (that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,7],"tags":[374,372,375,371,369,132,140,142,143,373,370,376],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leisure","category-life","tag-conversation","tag-czech-republic","tag-euro-2008","tag-eurocup","tag-football","tag-funny","tag-holland","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-soapboxxer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}