World What?

Ok so supposedly this big soccer tournament is going to start today. It's in South Africa and the whole world is watching. Eh...who cares. Soccer is a fine sport for countries who don't mind a nil nil tie being a satisfying result.

For Americans though it's a different story. We like scoring. We like a result. We made college football change its rules because we didn't like ties. We nearly had rioting in the streets when 90% of America didn't know that after one overtime in the NFL the game could end. That was simply unacceptable! America's beloved sport can end in a tie! Impossible!

I believe it's been fixed, if it hasn't been then it should be.

Baseball is the only sport that will go on until there is a result, that's how much we hate ties. No clock, no time limit, the game continues until one team wins! That's American. When was the last time you heard of a tie in NASCAR? Doesn't happen. When was the last time you paid attention to a MLS game, assuming the MLS still exists? To me the MLS might as well be a UFO, people claim to see one occasionally but can you really prove you've seen one?

Americans have more entertainment options than watching a soccer game. Don't ever give me the line, "Americans just aren't smart enough to "get" the beautiful game." We get it, we don't care. There isn't much to get, you run after a ball on a field and try to kick it into a net.

We went to the Moon, invented cable TV, and the Internet, we get soccer. We don't care about soccer. Its fine for the rest of the world, they need something to cheer and make themselves feel better for not living in America. They can have soccer, we'll keep football, baseball, basketball, racing, and any game we devise in the future as I'm sure it will be better than soccer.

Ok now with all of that said I'm willing to give watching a match a shot. We'll see what happens. I've watched a match or two before to give it a fair shot, does nothing for me. Don't care. America is playing though and I'll try to watch them as it is American to pull for an American team abroad.

We'll see how it goes though.

Next up is I'm working on a very important project that will directly effect the senior citizens in the surrounding counties of this area. This is easily the most important project that the very young commercial company has had thus far. Beersnob will be leaving for Iraq on Monday for six months, I know he would love to be part of this project but was at the meeting last night and had some great input on how it should work.

Stay tuned.