Certainly hats off to the US men’s team for dismantling Paraguay in the opening game of the World Cup?
And welcome to the United States way of doing things.
Traditionally water breaks only happen in matches that are above a certain temperature and I believe humidity. And another when it’s freaking hot.
In the World Cup, that is not how it works. I introduced the term Skyboxifcation in a previous post.
hidden deep and most corporate mission statements is this missive, “ maximize shareholder wealth.“
That is what everything is about. This is why we make such ridiculous short, sided decisions when running a business.
FIFA is all about ridiculous maximization of wealth. So now we have a soccer match that is essentially four quarters. And in theory, the match is still playing during this, sorry I’m not gonna hide. I’m not going to candy coat this. I wlll call it a commercial break.
Extra Time – yes that innovation, automatically adds three extra minutes of extra time to a a match.
It’s been a rather busy day and I sat down to watch the match. I put some vegetables in the oven, knowing that I would have to eat sometime during the game.
22 minutes into the game was a nice time to turn off the oven. The broccoli was perfect as were the potatoes and the vegan sausage, especially good. I guess food tastes better when your team is winning three nil.
Even though I’m American, I can’t say I’m exclusively rooting for the American side .. I think blind patriotism is dangerous.
I simply love Soccer.
I have very little idea how this tournament is going to progress. I am lucky as I will be in Germany during the knockout phase the tournament.
That is going to be kind of fun.
The United States will not win the World Cup.
You can say you heard it here first, but if they made an outrageous run and won the World Cup while I was in Germany.
That would be very much against the run of play.
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