Comments on: World Cup 2010

By: Stewart

Stewart — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:42:26 +0000

I spent a big chunk of Friday afternoon in front of Cardullo’s in Harvard Square watching Uruguay beat Ghana with about 100 strangers. I’m not sure that whole “Americans don’t care about soccer” thing is still applicable.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:17:01 +0000

You can still go to an Irish pub and root for Anybody But England!
But, yes, the Sports Talk guys are clueless about anything outside the triple of baseball/football/basketball. It took Lance Armstrong winning the Tour to get them to even notice that there WAS a Tour de France!
I worked at newspapers for about 10 frustrating years. I noticed that the Sports guys ignored the non-ball sports. When Olympic qualifying for windsurfing was held at Our Fair City, the sports desk ignored it because “that’s not a sport.” They buried coverage of a local 5K run that had 5,000 people in favor of covering an exhibition baseball game that had about 300 people in the stands. Why? One reason might be the sports guys themselves — they were overwhelmingly big fat guys who got their sports with a remote from in front of a TV.

By: keef

keef — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:24:00 +0000

THE IRISH AREN’T IN THE WORLD CUP?!!
Oh well–I guess I’ll have to root for the Salvadoran team.

Oh, where would we be if it weren’t for snarky, think-they-know-it-all commentary on the web?

By: rob

rob — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:28:22 +0000

Hey i’m an american who hates all sports!

By: David W.

David W. — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:04:26 +0000

Of course America doesn’t care about soccer. Let’s look at the facts:

Football: There’s a snap, there’s a down, there’s a commercial. Snap, down, commercial. Snap, down, commercial.

Baseball: Batter is up, Batter gets a base hit or is out. There’s a commercial. Batter up, batter hits/outs, commercial. Batter up, batter hit/out, commercial.

Soccer: Play goes on and on until the rare event someone scores. Where do we put all the commercials?