do you actually care about the world cup?

[Хahar 🤔]

I guess I can understand people having no interest in football or the World Cup....but those same people finding baseball of all things interesting and worthwhile

The conclusion that I've arrived at is that most people can only maintain an interest in one objectively boring sport. There are people who are big fans of soccer and people who are big fans of baseball and people who are neither, but the number of people I've met who are very interested in both is vanishingly small.

Personally I find that the game of soccer has very little appeal to me; while gameplay is slow and uneventful in both soccer and baseball, baseball is divided into discrete segments. Soccer is not. Mostly I find it terribly difficult to figure out when something important is happening in a soccer game.

[Хahar 🤔]

It should be noted that by far the worst thing about soccer is people who like soccer.

[Хahar 🤔]

One thing to note is that - precisely because it is so low-scoring - football is the most "unfair" of the big team sports: the one where the objectively weaker team has the best chances of winning.

And yet, at least at the club level, it is also the most unfair because money is allowed to rule the game, and 99% of national titles are won by about a half dozen clubs (or less), across every league in Europe.

I've always wondered about that. Doesn't it get boring to be a fan of a team that has no chance of ever winning?

[Хahar 🤔]

I'll always love that fact, but it's not really the same thing; as recently as 2008, the Cubs had the best record in the National League. Usually they haven't been good, but it's just bad luck that they've never managed to win.