2022 FIFA World Cup - Qatar, November 21-December 18

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I will be watching the World Cup to see how far US men go in soccer.

American men in general don't care for soccer, looking at the way American sports personalities like Mike Francesa, Craig Carton, etc. have been making fun of the sport.

Look at how US women's soccer gets made fun of.

American men like football, baseball, basketball, hockey, NASCAR.

Shows how exceptional America is, because we ARE different than the world.

Like how baseball is the Dominican Republic's sport, hockey is Canada's sport, soccer is the rest of the world's sport.

When you have rightwingers like Alexi Lalas pushing for his fellow rightwingers to get into the sport, shows how far US men's soccer has to go..

Baseball is the leading sport in a hell of a lot more than just the Dominican Republic. Ice hockey is the leading sport in Finland and Latvia (maybe Belarus?) and basketball is the #1 sport in Lithuania and the Philippines (lol). Australia and Ireland have both indigenous sports and English sports. And South Africa has the racial divide that supports multiple sports. America is hardly exceptional.

The common thread re: baseball is "former American and Japanese colonial empires". For cricket it is "former British possessions".

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Being the host does not guarantee you success. It entitles you to the (effectively) absolute right to host the games. It does not inherently give you anything else.

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The Arabs were playing like Allah himself was on the field.

The Saudis had a plan crazy enough to work.

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Lol

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A bit late, but LOL.

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Very good game so far.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Very good game so far.

From Argentina, sure.

France is giving one of the worst WC finals performances I can remember of. Embarrassing even, considering their big talk.

I was talking from an entertainment point of view.
In any case, I somehow spoke too soon. Good lord...what a good game from Mbappe.

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Which team is better at penalties?

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Congratulations to Argentina. Messi deserves this!

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Ok, bye guys, going out to celebrate, getting sh*tfaced tonight. Toughts and prayers

Best of luck, old friend!

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In a vacuum I would have liked a France win but Messi getting his trophy now after a banger of match is just so wonderfully poetic.

Mbappe has at least another decade in him to get more glory.

Absolutely, especially after being around in 2018 already having not even been in his twenties back then. While I was rooting for Argentinia, I thought Mbappe would also have deserved victory after shooting all three goals that kept France alive until the very end.

Both teams played at top form (from an entertainment POV, anyhow) and the biggest winners from that are us, the viewers.