World Cup

The World Cup is finally over for the US. We're the second team to be eliminated during the Round of Sixteen (the first was South Korea). I guess this means we finished in Fifteenth place, which is comparable to our Fourteenth place global ranking going into the competition.

I must say, the media needs to figure out how to blackout these games so that people in each home country can gather to watch the games during prime time. To hell with "Live" coverage of a sports match occurring halfway around the world. Force our country to wait until it's 7pm local time before any information about the game can be broadcast. In lots of ways, I blame the Internet for this for making information so easy to access.

For what it's worth, though, I've enjoyed being able to semi-cheer for the US Team without being able to watch a single minute of competition on television due to being at work or otherwise being busy and incapable of accessing a television during the matches.

Oh well... maybe they'll do better in four years during the 2014 Brazil World Cup which will at least be in a near-local time zone so odd times like 10am games are unlikely to become an issue.