June 12, 2015

SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle:

A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.

posted by huddle to general at 06:00 AM - 7 comments

The schedule on FIFA's Women's World Cup site has a time feature that's confusing as hell. You can click a link that's either "Change to local time" or "Change to your time." But the first text you see is always "Change to local time," which makes me click it to see the game time for my locality.

Then I click it and am told "Change to your time." I thought I already did.

WHAT THE HELL, SEPP!

posted by rcade at 12:54 PM on June 12, 2015

I had trouble with that time link as well, and my take on it was that local time meant the time in the province where the match was being played. If you look at Vancouver matches, clicking between the links amounts to a 2 hour difference (I think) if you're in the eastern US.

When I saw "WHAT THE HELL SEPP!" before reading the text above it, my initial gunshot reaction was that Blatter had named Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who has just been acquitted on pimping charges, as the next FIFA president.

posted by beaverboard at 01:17 PM on June 12, 2015

my take on it was that local time meant the time in the province where the match was being played

I don't think so, only because I noticed on open day that the matches started at a different hour each of the next 4 days, which I put down to time zone differences. If they're changing the times even after accounting for time zone differences that is insane even by FIFA standards.

posted by yerfatma at 03:46 PM on June 12, 2015

Mookie Betts, this is fence, fence, this is Mookie Betts.
He appears to be none the worse for wear, stayed in the game.

On edit, Boston has pulled Betts at the end of the inning.

posted by tommybiden at 07:59 PM on June 12, 2015

Fox Sports' online streaming of the World Cup must be on overdemand at the moment. Access to USA-Sweden is all glitched. I had no trouble watching all the Swiss-Ecuador mismatch I wanted, then the issues began when the USA match got going and I tried to switch over to it.

For future USA matches, I'll have to get logged in and hunkered down before the center ref grabs the match ball on the way out of the tunnel.

From the Unsolved FIFA Mysteries Department: no explanation given thus far for why 4 minutes of added stoppage time were announced and displayed for the end of the Australia-Nigeria match, but it was ended by the ref's whistle with only 1 minute of added stoppage having elapsed. I was trying to imagine what it would be like if a North American pro basketball, football, or hockey game got casual with the clock like that. The refs wouldn't be safe at the Vatican.

posted by beaverboard at 08:55 PM on June 12, 2015

That was truly bizarre. I was wondering why Nigeria wasn't more vigorous in their disapproval afterward. Maybe there was only supposed to be 1 minute, and the board was wrong?

posted by bender at 02:37 PM on June 14, 2015

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