Match report: Milan 3 - Juventus 0

• Goals scored: Antonini 14', Ronaldinho 29', 67'
• What happened: Antonini scored the first goal of his AC Milan career. Ronaldinho scored two goals. The Juventus fans set off numerous explosions and sang derogatory songs and had to be warned over the public address system that play would be halted if they did not stop.
• Aggregate score of the two Milan-Juventus matches this season: 6-0 (Milan)
• Reasons why fans of both teams were unhappy: Juventus finished in seventh place and had a truly terrible season (for them). Milan did about as well as can be expected and finished in third. Milan fans are upset that the team has not spent more money to bring in top quality players in recent years and also that first year coach Leonardo (pictured above congratulating Antonini on his goal and pictured below being bid farewell by his team) is being forced out by Silvio Berlusconi. The fans repeatedly sang songs in honor of Leonardo until he acknowledged them with a wave.

Below: Milan fans with an enormous set of banners. The internet translates the bottom one as "President failed AWOL".

• Milan personnel who officially said goodbye at today's match: Leonardo and Favalli
• Milan personnel who may have played their last match for the team today: Dida, Inzaghi, Ronaldinho, and about a dozen others
• What this match teaches us: Milan's Serie A 2009-2010 season is over. This means that my daughter will soon be home from her (almost) year in Brazil.

Below are highlights:

Below you can watch the Milan players and staff force Leonardo to come out on the pitch for one last goodbye:

What I have been listening to lately #54

Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers

Match report: Milan 2 - Roma 1

• Goals scored: Menez 3', Ronaldinho 57' (penalty), Pato 67'
• Number of Milan players who made absolutely terrible, failed back passes to the keeper that resulted in Roma goals: 1 (Thiago Silva)
• Number of Milan players sent off: 1 (Ambrosini)
• Number of semi-dubious penalties awarded to Milan by referee Roberto Rosetti: 1 (Burdisso on Nesta)
• Number of teams that did not deserve to win: 2 (AC Milan and AS Roma)
• Number of loud explosions: 1
• Where you might find Pato these days: Near midfield, over by the right touchline, making everybody wonder what in the world he is doing over there. Probably only Leonardo knows.
• Place Milan are now in: 8th
• What this match teaches us: Sometimes teams play badly and still manage to win.
• Questions for further research: Does this team have any chance at all in Wednesday's Champions League match against Real Madrid?

For highlights, watch the video below:

Seattle Seafair Torchlight Parade 2008

Last night was the Torchlight Parade through downtown Seattle. There were pirates, Sikhs and Koreans doing martial arts, motorcycle cops, bicycle cops, runners, drill teams, pirates, a Chinese dragon, clowns, a great float from the Tulalip casino, pirates, and more. Here's the Seattle Public Schools All-City Marching Band:



The pirates had their own boat and it had sirens and a really loud cannon. The explosions reminded me alot of when the Seattle police were throwing concussion grenades at demonstrators during the WTO protests in 1999.



This pirate may or may not escape from the clutches of the police...