World Cup - NO!

[Sethomas]

Red Machine D are you really from Arizona???

When I lived in Madrid, it was interesting to root for soccer because I grew up playing soccer year after year in a nation that hates soccer, and at the same time Real Madrid was the diamond of Europe because they had appropriated Beckham. I have little interest in watching basketball and far less in (American) football, but I like to see the Pacers or the Colts succeed because it pumps money into the local economy. Sure, that money is ill-gotten gains from preying on morons and their silly interests, but that's the nature of the Leviathan.

My flatmate observed that it was pretty shitty that Beckham never seemed interested in learning Spanish in any real sense, although she admitted to having heard him say "puta" during one game. A few weeks later I moved to France (and soon thereafter Madrid was bombed, go figure) and I watched a little bit of the FC Bayern game against Manchester or Liverpool. The effect was killed by having no friends there, so I just kind of thought about how I'd rather play soccer than watch it.

My renter here dominates the television (no biggie for me, but my cousin who lives here as well hates him for it) usually by watching ESPN, and at one such moment some commentator was talking about how stupid it was for a baseball player to tell his agent to apologize on his behalf. I told my renter, "You know, I LOVE it when sports commentators talk about ethics." He replied, "of course they should talk about ethics, sports is a metaphor of life in general."

I told him later that it's really sad in that regard, because it's true in the sense that everyone seems to be interested in it and only a handful of plutocrats can really do anything about it.