World Cup 2010

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What type of American are you? You communist. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]
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Soccer isn't America's pastime. Baseball is. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]
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I thought whining about baseball was.
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That's just my own personal pastime.
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Ok, I know soccer is kind of boring to watch and hell, I rarely watch it myself, but how can you be so cynical? This is America doing something that it hasn't done since 1950- advancing to the next round of the biggest sports tournament in the world. The entire hallway where I work erupted when the goal went in. It's kind of a big fucking deal.
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Wait. I just re-read this. Didn't Team USA make some noise in 2002 -- like the quarterfinals? What's this 1950 stuff?
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This isn't the first time since 1950 that the USA has advanced to the 2nd round, but in that year the USA beat England which was a huge upset at the time.
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And I stand corrected for the 1950 part. And for calling Butch cynical.
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So if the US wins the whole thing, will the international soccer press mention the Cubs when referring to teams with the longest stretches without a championship?
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Right after they mention the French Armed Forces.