Like Hoss, to get through the current swoon I am watching a lot of World Cup soccer.
I suspect our experiences are different though.
I just keep it on in the background with the sound off.
It's like a screen saver or an aquarium. The bright uniform colors just go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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Sometimes two players collide and reenact the opening of Saving Private Ryan. Men crying for their mothers after being shot. Except they weren't shot. They were bumped or stepped on.
Compare with Jalen Brunson. Brunson takes more contact on a single drive to the basket then these guys take in a whole game. Maybe in the whole tournament. He could shake off being hit by a truck.
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I will say this... if you have to watch soccer watch it in Spanish. The announcers make everything way more exciting than it is.
Maybe I should watch the Yankees that way. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllll... dos.
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I'm loving the fans by the way. Both in and out of the stadium. It's been great! The games themselves... Not so much.
Love it, Doug K.! And really, from my one, live Cup experience—no, not the Jazz kind—this year, I have to say they ARE great. Just delighted to be here. Very different vibe from a major-league game...
...I have mostly had it on in the background, too, Doug, and without sound. Too much work to do. But it's worth turning up the volume sometimes, when some team is really in trouble. Wild, wonderful ending—even though it was a tie!—between Austria and Algeria the other day...
...But yeah, imho, the big things they HAVE to fix are:
—Penalty kicks deciding games
—The invisible clock.
The PK thing is degrading crap. It's like deciding the World Series by having a fungo-hitting contest. It really is. If you're doing a penalty kick right, you should make it every time. Really, we're having the biggest, non-Olympic sports event in world history decided by Homer-level mistakes. D'oh!
In the 8 tournaments since they've had it, PKs have decided 3 Cups. Ridiculous...
...And the clock is also nonsense. (Along with the "hydration break," which is just an attempt to appease American television and put in another "commercial break.")
It is, obviously, a rough estimate. And if you watch a game, you'll notice that, somehow, the "added time" at the end of a half or regulation, somehow never breaks up a strong attack.
In other words, it's an estimate of an estimate. Absurd, already!
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