Pre-game

I need to get this on the record for it to work…see, when ever I start to believe that a team I care about can actually win – they lose. The less I have hope, the more they win. I can cite numerous examples over the history of sports and Jonathan fandom, but let’s not relive the pain, please just trust me. Here goes…

The US national team have no hope of qualifying for the next round. None, period. First of all they can’t beat Ghana who are incredibly fast, powerful, confident, and playing well. Second of all, even if they did find a way to beat Ghana, Italy will find a way to screw it up and tie the Czech Republic! Or the Czechs will win and the US will win but not by enough to goals to catch Italy. Or Italy will win, but the US will tie. Something will go wrong in one of the two games.

I consider this the “home depot rule” in that it is similar to the fact that its impossible to get in and out of Home Depot in under an hour. Because if you don’t know what you need it takes an hour to find it and if you do know, then you just don’t know where it is, or if you do know where, then it’s not stocked, but if it is stocked then the check out lines are really long, or even if there is just one person ahead of you…they need customer service to clear their check…hour gone. The only difference is that spending an hour in Home Depot can be a lot of fun for tool junkie like me.

But for a soccer junkie, this rule applied to the US team is gonna suck!!!! See you at 7 am.