Sports gives me a chance to be passionate and silly and biased and ridiculous and nuts and hard-headed without any real-life ramifications. It's where I can lose myself and find myself.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
javachik - Jun 26, 2010 12:10:03 pm PDT #9099 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
beth b - Jun 26, 2010 12:10:48 pm PDT #9100 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I used to play , and I even coached 5 yr olds . I had forgotten how tired you are at the end of a soccer game
beth b - Jun 26, 2010 12:12:16 pm PDT #9101 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
And their keeper is just beast.
He was amazing
megan walker - Jun 26, 2010 12:16:51 pm PDT #9102 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Well, with the five Francophone teams down, and now the US, I guess I'm going back to my old sweethearts from '98, the Netherlands.
§ ita § - Jun 26, 2010 12:17:02 pm PDT #9103 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When I objectively think about sports, it's...well, they're the dumbest thing ever. Why do you keep hitting that tiny ball back over that net? But then you see the raw emotion of the Ghanaian team as they knock each other over in celebration, and I think--anything that lights people up like that and isn't maiming other people--is good, no? And even the sadness and desperation on the US side--it was well battled for.
Stephanie - Jun 26, 2010 12:18:50 pm PDT #9104 of 30001
Trust my rage
Joe said something to me today about "I didn't know you liked soccer?" And I don't exactly, but I love the World Cup, just like I love the Olympics, and so on. Sort of like java said, I can get all into it, feel some empathy for the winners/losers, and then go on with my day.
I have a lot of clients from Ghana and so I'm happy for them, also.
eta: I'll be rooting for Ghana because they are now the underdogs, I think. But also Brazil because, despite being such a huge team and sort of like rooting for the Yankees or the Cowboys, they love their futebol like no one else I have ever seen.
megan walker - Jun 26, 2010 12:31:25 pm PDT #9105 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
One of the reasons I'm rooting for the Netherlands is that they have been so solid for so long without winning the main event.
javachik - Jun 26, 2010 12:32:09 pm PDT #9106 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Sort of like java said, I can get all into it, feel some empathy for the winners/losers, and then go on with my day.
Don't get me wrong. When the Giants lost to the Angels in 2002 WS, I did not get over it for months. I was in despair for a good long while. But, mostly, when it comes to sports, it has no bearing (for me) on real life. But the Giants are another story altogether.
javachik - Jun 26, 2010 12:32:50 pm PDT #9107 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
And, as a rule, if I have no other allegiances, I'm always rooting for the underdog.
megan walker - Jun 26, 2010 12:48:53 pm PDT #9108 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Ghana will have a tough road. If they beat Uruguay, which is certainly doable, they will likely have to play either Brazil or Netherlands, neither of which would be easy.