R Country

People traveling into the New Jersey from the Delaware Memorial Bridge now know what country they are entering, Rutgers Country. My brother, Endy in the Outfield, snapped this picture while coming back from Maryland. Its good to see Rutgers marketing its brand like this.

And you thought soccer was not growing

On Wednesday the home office of OTWT received a shocking call from Endy in Outfield. At first I could not believe what I was hearing, it sounded like something tragic had happened. After talking to him, I try to figure out what was going on.

Endy called me to let me know that my father, who is 60 and home recovering after being sick for two months, watched the first half of the Barcelona/Racing Santander match on ESPN. I know what people are thinking, so what is the big deal with this, everything is. My dad hated the beautiful game, even going as far as making fun of my brother and I for spending so many hours on the weekend watching, but now maybe that is changing.

So after hearing the astonishing news, I called my father to see how he was doing and all he wanted to do is talking about "the big white guy with the big nose'' or as everyone knows him Zlatan Ibrahimovic (pictured right). He said he really liked him and thought he was fun to watch, he also expressed great love for the slick passing midfield duo of Xavi and Iniesta or as he called them ""the two short guys that look alike.'' Then my dad went on to tell to me about Barcelona and wanted to talk about how entertaining they were. It was almost cool to hear.

Maybe ESPN is the key to making soccer successful in this country, if my father can watch the first half of a game and express interest, who knows what is possible.

Professional Tailgating: Greg Robinson's last trip to the Garden State

The Only Time Will Tell Tailgating Crew was back where it belong at the Stadium. The crew has not been there the last couple of weeks because of wedding season. Rutgers vs. Syracuse wow what fun.

Noon start no problem, screw drivers for all.

Getting ready for the funnel

Funnel time

No spilling, please

The game lacked quality so we started taking pictures of our self

NFL Predictions: Endy in the Outfield Style

NFC East - Philadelphia, Dallas, Washington, New York
NFC North - Green Bay, Minnesota, Chicago, Detroit
NFC South - New Orleans, Tampa Bay, Atlanta, Carolina
NFC West - Arizona, San Fransisco, Seattle, St. Louis
AFC East - New England, Buffalo, New York, Miami
AFC North - Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Baltimore, Cincinnati
AFC South - Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Houston, Tennessee
AFC West - San Diego, Oakland, Denver, Kansas City

NFC Wild Card Round
Dallas (Wild Card) vs. Arizona (NFC West)
Minnesota (Wild Card) vs. Green Bay (NFC North)

NFC Divisional Round
Minnesota vs. Philadelphia (NFC East)
Dallas vs. New Orleans (NFC South)

NFC Championship Game
New Orleans vs. Philadelphia

AFC Wild Card
Cleveland (Wild Card) vs. San Diego (AFC West)
Oakland (Wild Card) vs. Indianapolis (AFC South)

AFC Divisional Round
Indianapolis vs. Pittsburgh (AFC North)
Cleveland vs. New England (AFC East)

AFC Championship
Pittsburgh vs. New England

Super Bowl
Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia

Super Bowl Champions - Philadelphia Eagles
Super Bowl MVP - Donovan McNabb

Professional Tailgating: Labor Day Special

At long last the College Football season is here and like last year the Only Time Will Tell Tailgating Crew will be spending most of at Rutgers University. The season did not start well for the Knights, but the Crew did put in a solid first effort and hopes to improve over the next couple of games.

Home at last

The crew is very well read from College Football to the RNC.

Endy in the Outfield continues to do his best to support his team, despite his teams sometimes letting him down.

Joe Wolf's Vertical Jump shows off the right way to throw a football, maybe Mike Teel should take notice
A new addition to the crew, Nihat Kahveci's long lost friend, grills burgers for the crew

Some tailgaters even used the time to practice keg stands



The gang gets ready to leave for the stadium
The ride over to the stadium is always fun
The walk, how could we forget

Hey coach put me in, I have a helmet on

For more photos of the day go here. For more videos of the day go here. Hope to see you all again at the North Carolina game Sept. 11.

Endy in the Outfield's EPL Preditions

Everyone's favorite New Jersey based scouser is back for the new EPL season. Here is die hard Liverpool fan Endy in the Outfield's season prediction.

My Painful EPL Predictions

1. Man Utd.
2. Liverpool
3. Chelsea
4. Arsenal
5. Tottenham
6. Portsmouth
7. Everton
8. Aston Villa
9. Newcastle
10. West Ham
11. Middlesbrough
12. Blackburn
13. Man City
14. Wigan
15. Fullham
16. Sunderland
17. West Brom
18. Bolton
19. Stoke City
20. Hull City

Best signing - Jose Bosingwa - Chelsea
Breakout player - Ryan Babel - Liverpool (of course)
First manager to be sacked - Gary Megson - Bolton
Best player - Fernando Torres - Liverpool

EPL Predictions Time

The season starts Saturday while the champions taking the field on Sunday. Here is Joe Wolf's Vertical Jump Super EPL Preview.
In order of predicted finished:
1. Manchester United: The Devils will be the first team to hold on to the trophy for three years in a row.
2. Liverpool: The Scousers close the gap but will have to wait another year to get the league championship.
3. Chelski: New coach, that has never coached in European league, smells of a little of trouble to me, I know he won a world cup.
4. Arsenal: The kids are going to be OK, Vela and Denilson lead this bunch of kids.
5. Aston Villa: Martin O'Neil gets the closet that he will ever get to the top four.
6. Tottenham Hotspurs: Going to win a trophy, but not the league and maybe even be the UEFA cup over AC Milan.
7. Portsmouth: Harry's large and short strike force might be one of the best in the league.
8. Manchester City: Does anyone else think that this situation could turn ugly.
9. Everton: Its been a slow off season for Liverpools other club.
10. Newcastle United: The Keegan can not get new players but they have to be better then last year.
11. Sunderland: Roy Keane continues to improve the club.
12. Blackburn: The Governor will have his challenges in year one.
13. Middlesbrough: This team interest me a little. They made a couple of good signing and a full year of Alves.
14. West Ham United: Is it time that Curbs goes and they bring in the Croatian Special One.
15. Fulham: Last year they had the great escape, this year there season will lack that kind of drama.
16. Wigan: Sometimes I wish that they would just get relegated but this year there are by far worst teams.
17. West Brom: The only promoted club to survive the drop.
18. Bolton: The Ginger Prince can not avoid the drop just time, but United fans will always love him for drawing Chelski on the final day last year.
19. Stoke: They will be back where they belong next year.
20. Hull City: Could even be worst then Derby County.

Best signing: Giovani Dos Santos, Spurs
Breakout Player not named Ryan Babel: Nicklas Bendtner, Arsenal
First Manager sacked: Curbs at West Ham.
Special prediction: This years champion will have the lowest point total ever.

Tommorrow: Everyones favorite American Scouser Endy in the Outfield makes his predictions.

Euro 2008: Team of the Group Stage

With the Euro group stages ended, here is a look at the team of the group stages:

Goalie: Giggi Buffon, Italy
Defenders: Sergio Ramos, Spain
Defenders: Pepe, Portugal
Defenders: Vedran Corluka, Croatia
Defenders: Gio Van Bronkhorst, Dutch
Midfielders: Wesley Sneijder (right), Dutch
Midfielders: Arda Turan, Turkey
Midfielders: Luka Modric, Croatia
Midfielders: Deco, Portugal
Strikers:: David Villa, Spain
Striker: Nihat Kahveci, Turkey

Subs:
Ronaldo, Portugal
Rafeel van der Vaart, Dutch
Orlando Engelaar, Dutch
Lukas Podolski, Germany
Marco Senna, Spain
Roman Pavlyuenko, Russia

The Mets do it again

By Endy in the Outfield
The tension went on "far too long" according to Omar not even a day after showing the door to Willie, Rick Peterson, and Tom Nieto.

Omar also went on to say how it was hard to fire a friend. So hard that he made it extra hard on Randolph by dragging him out to Anaheim the day after a father's day double header in which they nearly came back and won the first and managed to win the 2nd game. Then makes him fly cross country to sunny Anaheim,has him manage a game that the Mets actually win that started at 10 PM ET (7PT). Still Omar waits until his good friend Willie is out of his uniform and dressed because "it's disrespectful to fire a manager while still in his uniform."

Then of course he calls Willie to his Hotel room along with the Jacket and Notorious Nieto and all are fired the respectful way at 3:15 AM ET after flying 3000 miles and winning the ballgame they just participated in. Like most Mets fans the firing didn't upset me or surprise me, it's the respectful manner in which the Big O went about it.

Willie (right) was never one of US. He was drafted by the Yanks in '72 and made his MLB debut in '75 at 21 years old and went on to make six all star appearances as a Yank, win 2 World Series, and the Silver Slugger award in 1988. After making brief but successful appearances in LA (Dodgers), Oakland, and Milwaukee he finally came to the Mets as the 8th oldest player in the NL. Like his managing for the Mets his playing didn't fare so well. He had the 2nd worst avg. of his career .252, the worst RBIs in a season for his career and one of the 3 worst seasons of OPB% and SL%. When his career was over and he became a bench coach for the Yankees, he once again had tremendous success winning 4 world series and was a part in the great 1998 NYY World Series season. Then, of course, he came to the Mets.

After finishing in 3rd in the division in the "Wait Til Next Year Season", next year finally came and Willie finally helped end the Braves run atop the division and finished first for the first time well over a decade. The time appeared to be now after the Mets went to the NLCS and lost game 7 but started the 07 season hot, but since it's Willie as a Met the season tanked as the Mets blew the division in the last month of the season.

Did I mention Willie has NEVER been a Met?

And the Jacket, oh how we loathe the jacket. Hey Rick (right) baseball is played in the summer, in hot temperatures. Take off the fuckin jacket. We all know that your reasoning for wearing the jacket is for all its useful pockets. Well obviously you have nothing useful in those pockets, nothing that could fix Victor Zambrano in 15 minutes, nothing that could reason with Heath Bell, nothing that could get his starting pitchers to throw more than 6 innings, ABSOLUTELY FUCKIN NOTHING IN THOSE POCKETS. Unless hes smuggling drugs in there or something, if that's the case I don't blame him. Gotta smuggle them into that side show somehow.

And of course the most controversial and most talked about of the three firings, Tom Nieto (left). Nieto played six season in the majors from 84 til, well, when who actually gives a fuk, it's Tom Nieto. The only reason he got canned is now it'll be easier to fill another managerial spot with another latino to make the Mets Latino staff quota.

Now Jerry Manuel, this is your time, a former manager of the year for the White Sox with a .515 career winning avg as a manager is ready for the job I'm sure. All the players should respect a man of his caliber and I'm sure none of them would ever show him up on the field in the first inning of his first game as Mets manager.

Shame on you Jose.

Professional Tailgating: National Pride

The Only Time Will Tell Tailgating Crew was it again Sunday. The Crew braved high 90 degree temperatures for the United States v. Argentina soccer game and the atmosphere and the game did not disappoint.

US Soccer is pulling out all stops for new fans including segways.


The love affair with the Argentine National Team starts at a young age

The Deuce Fan Club, see Landon you can go to England and be a big star.

Now that is what I call passionate supporters in the Snake Pit Parking Section

Professional Flag Painting

Giant Stadium with grass, what a concept

Endy in the Outfield (that crazy Scouser) and Joe Wolf's Vertical Jump show off their national pride.

Could these guys be replacing the Special One on "I'm on Setanta Sports?" It might be possibe. Please sit down, I can not see.

In the 75th minute, the rain came and the fun began.

Videos of the tailgating fun can be found on the Crew's You Tube page.

Endy in the Outfield takes his shot at Euro 2008

It's Endy in the Outfields time to turn pundit and pick the winners for the Euro 2008. Endy also predicts a break out tournament for the Dutch Liverpool midfielder Ryan Babel. As well as Ronaldo doing something amazing.

Group A:
Czech
Portugal
Switzerland
Turkey
Winner: Portugal
Runner up: Czech

Group B
Austria
Croatia
Germany
Poland
Group winner: Germany
Runners up: Croatia

Group C
France
Holland
Italy
Romania
Group winner: France
Runner up: Holland

Group D
Greece
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Group winner: Spain
Runner up: Sweden

Quarter Finals
Portugal vs. Croatia: Portugal
Germany vs. Czech: Germany
France vs. Sweden: Sweden
Holland vs. Spain: Holland

Semi-Finals
Portugal vs. Germany: Portugal
Holland vs. Sweden: Holland

Final
Holland vs. Portugal: Portugal, yes Ronaldo even walks on water

I Don't Even Know Where To Begin....

Few people have had the sports year that Endy in the Outfield has had. First Liverpool are beaten by Chelski in the Champions League Semi-final, then the Mets turn into a team that can not get out of its own way. It has been a tough year for one of the members of the tailgating crew.
By Endy in the Outfield

The past few days I have spent wondering.
Wondering what is going on with my Mets.
Wondering if Willie Randolph was still caring about the team.
Wondering if anyone had seen Jose Reyes.
Wondering when David Wright was going to step up and be the vocal leader in the clubhouse. Wondering when the injury bug was going to stop.
And most importantly, wondering if its a crime to steal $16 million the way Carlos Delgado had.

It pains me even more to realize that this team is doing nothing this year. Nothing indicates they will bust out of this disgusting .500 we don't care baseball they have been playing. So for the rest of the season, it looks like Mets fans everywhere will have to put up with this shit for another 3 months, football season starts in September right when the Mets season will be ending.

Which should lead to one VERY interesting off season. One thing is for sure, the following Mets can email Endy in the Outfield (defcubus85@gmail.com) for one way tickets to their home towns courtesy of Only Time Will Tell (thank you stimulus check for making this possible): Aaron Heilman, Mike Pelfrey, Scott Schoenweis, Claudio Vargas, Raul Casanova, Luis Castillo, Fernando Tatis, and Alou and El Duque (I think both are already home). And for Carlos Delgado, first class accommodations if you'll get the fuck out of New York.

Endy in the Outfield Goes Global

During the fun of the Champions League Final on Wednesday at Fado in Philly, Endy in the Outfield went world wide. Endy was on World Soccer Daily and did not disappoint touching on topics such as Rafa the Rotating Manager, The Special One, and Rick Parry with Steven and Kenny.

Not bad for being almost drunk or totally.

Professional Tailgating: Champions League Final at Fado

After the Champions League Semi-Finals were completed the Only Time Will Tell Tailgating Crew had to make a decision on where they were going to watch the final. After a couple of minutes the decision became easy: Fado in Philly.

Timmy Changs Passing Records was upset that Park Ji Sung did not make the United squad for the final.

Steven and Kenny of World Soccer Daily discuss tactics before the final.

Joe Wolf's Vertical Jump and Endy in the Outfield get ready for the kick off.

Endy in the Outfield does is impression of The Special One.

Joe Wolf's Vertical Jump makes friends with a Chelski fan.

The drama was too much for everyone including Chelski fan Steven Cohen.

The game was great, the outcome was great with a United win and Giggs and Rio lifting the Big Ears Cup and the atmosphere at Fado in Philly was amazing. Thanks to World Soccer Daily for bringing their show to the City of Brotherly Love.

The Ghost of 1999

The hours are starting to tick away, the final is almost here. Lets hope that ghost of 1999 will see the Red Devils to the lifting the big ears cup. What a better way to honor the 50th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster, then to lift the European Cup.

The Only Time Will Tell tailgating crew including me, Endy in the Outfield, and Timmy Changs Passing Records will take the game in at Fado in Philly, along with the World Soccer Daily radio team.

Divine Intervention

Glory Glory Man United

With the Manchester United season coming down to a couple of games, it's time to look to the sky and hope the ghost of George Best is smiling kindly down on Fergie's Boys tomorrow at the Theatre of Dreams.

Thanks to Beachwood's only scousers Endy in the Outfield for passing the video on.

Professional Tailgating: Spring Edition

College Football season can not come back fast enough. The Only Time Will Tell Tailgating Crew spent Saturday getting ready for the upcoming college football season with the Rutger's Annual Scarlet and White game.

Endy in the Outfield directs traffic in the parking lot

The crew talks about what the Rutgers offense is going to look like without Ray Rice

Clean up time for the crew is never fun

A record crowd attended the annual festival of fun

All of the fans could not wait to get their hands on their free shirts

The stadium projects looks like its starting to take shape