I’m back off the boat, and one of the perks is that I am able to catch the world cup without enduring the “soccer is for fags” glare of the rednecks on the boat. The problem is that I still have to endure the idiot coverage of the American announcers. They got the US game all wrong today. It wasn’t about how shitty the Americans played, the real story was how good the Czechs were. But instead everybody kept talking about how horrible the americans played, how their dreams are crushed, blah blah blah. The worst shit is when the announcer kept bringing up historical facts like, Teams down 2 - 0 have a record of 0-1-31 but they always win if the game was played on a sunday in a country that is predominantly catholic. Guess what, correlation does not mean causation, and in the case of historical sports statistics, they have nothing what so ever to do with games played in the future. My favorite is when people say, only european teams have won in europe, who gives a fuck, that shit happened 50 years ago. IT HAS ZERO EFFECT ON WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW. I’m sorry statistical idiocy just pisses me off.
The real stat that people should have been paying attention to was the shots on goal, but I didn’t hear one announcer bring it up. In fact, they were pretty even, the Czechs had 4 on goal and the US had 3, (both teams total shots were even at 10). That’s not a very high number for either team, and the fact that the Czechs scored 3 out of 4 means they played an almost prefect game. They were able to score the early goal, then they played a defense game and capitalized on every counter attack they got. That was the major reason the US looked so flat on offense.
Not that the US played well, but against a team that was not as good as the Czechs, (probably everybody in the tournament except for brazil), the score could have been very different. The US isn’t screwed either, They will probably advance if they win two more games, and could even still advance if they win one and tie one. But shit, you listen to the people on the TV and it’s the end of line for US soccer.
And another thing. “Hostel” was the worst movie I’ve seen in a long time. It wasn’t scary and it made me hate Americans. Weak.
alfie poo! are you back in mke? come to madison! see the new house and lets go for fri night fish!