The cupcake exists, and it's Caribbean

[Zeppo]

The cupcake exists, and it's Caribbean

Jamaica is beyond repair at this point, although you didn’t need this chart to tell you that – losing four in a row and winning none out of the first six will usually turn any campaign into a flaming bag of goldfish. But Jamaica’s week and a half was so amazingly poor that they have now qualified as the Hexagonal cupcake.

Which calls for a new chart. When a team implodes the way Jamaica has, you no longer get credit for beating them anywhere, and you get punished for doing anything except beating them anywhere. The logic behind this should be clear – Jamaica is handing out points to anyone who wanders by. Jamaica is the only team so far to flat-out lose at home, and they’ve done it twice so far – to Mexico and the United States. If you’re only getting one when everyone else is getting three, that’s just like losing.

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[Don1]

Why are you posting so many inane musings of Americans on Jamaica's performance??

Kindly temper your pollution...before I lose my temper

[Bruce]

The only difference between Jamaica and a "cupcake" is that the "cupcake" leaves with a nice pay check....more money than they might have made at a home game.

In USA sports terms, a "cupcake" is a much weaker, non-conference opponent who travels to some big time team and usually gets routed. The big time team pays the cupcake to travel to play them.

[HL]

Hope the good Cap'n Burrell makes this mandatory reading for the squad.

If he pays me, i have the equipment to enlarge and laminate a copy for the BoyZ locker-room.

[Bruce]

Did we not discuss before The Hex started that the teams who advance would be the ones who get maximum points at home, and steal some points on the road?