Marc A. Thiessen is an American author, columnist and political commentator, who served as a speechwriter for United States President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Posted on 06/27/2014 8:16:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
With all due respect to Rush, he is way off base on this one. The group stage at the WC is analogous to the regular season in American football. Is it not possible for a team to lose its last regular season game and advance to the playoffs despite losing? Do we criticize football for that?
The US did not win the World Cup by losing. They merely advanced to the playoffs, ie the knockout round. At this point, the games are more or less analogous to the playoff games in football. You lose and you’re out. No more celebrating after a loss now. To win the WC, you have to keep winning.
No thanks. It’s baseball season and the Nationals are in first place in the NL East. I’ll stick with American sports.
You’re humor-impaired, Obviously
Yes, and a meter is a little more than a yard. Inches, feet, and yards are far more useful for everyday needs. That’s how they came to be. The metric system is far more useful for precision, due to it’s Base 10 organization.
I am laughing heartily at this, as, when my children were young, I would say to them that "soccer is a Communist plot". I was half joking; but, I am glad to find a fellow "traveler" who also thinks soccer is a Communist plot.
It shouldn't. It's a simple reality, understood by anyone who has ever done physical work or been in serious physical training. The female athletes understand this as well as anyone.
We have an insane GI Jane notion running loose in generally leftist circles that discounts the physical differences between the sexes. I find it difficult to believe that its advocates take it seriously, but if they do, I suspect most of them have been so insulated from physical work/training that they simply have no clue.
Women's sports will never succeed financially if they try to be clones of the men's game. They have to be taken on their own merits and develop their own fan base.
I have soccer playing daughters and they and their teammates sometimes attend Washington Spirit games (Women's Professional Soccer). The stands are full of youth soccer players and older women (i.e., early 20's and up), many with boyfriends/husbands, most of whom clearly used to play the game (and perhaps still do, recreationally). That's a start.
Really?
5280 feet per mile?
16 oz. per pound? 2000 pounds per ton?
45,360 square feet per acre? 640 acres per square mile? 27,878,400 square feet per square mile?
8 quarts per peck, 4 pecks per bushel?
16 oz. per pint, 8 pints per gallon, 128 oz. per gallon?
The problem is not that "standard measurements" don't use decimals, it's that every type of measurement uses a different number.
All that said, the metric system can screw you up royally just by misplacing the decimal point.
Wow. Talk about trying to have it both ways. I would suggest that if this clown’s interest in soccer is that superficial, he should go back to watching his trained gorillas beat each others’ (minimal) brains out in between Miller and Budweiser commercials.
Soccer sure as hell doesn’t need him.
Excellent riposte, Don. As one who wouldn’t walk across the street to watch the Super Bowl if you gave me free tickets (although I would scalp them for an obscene amount) it gets a little tedious listening to soccer bashers brag about the superiority of American sports, especially the absurdly misnamed football.
I notice that in UK they still talk about how much a person weighs in stones, not kilos. I have to look up every time how much a stone is. (14 pounds.)
They were talking yesterday morning on Fox and Friends about Ann Coulter’s column and the census was that she should stick to something she understands and not criticize what she doesn’t
Simply a point of information: NBC paying $250M for a three-year deal to broadcast English Premier League games in the U.S. is not an indication that NBC is counting on illegal immigrants from England to watch.
*** Even Americans who’ve watched all three US World Cup games so far would be hard pressed to give the last name of any player on the US team.***
Last name or first name? Last names are on their backs. I have trouble remembering their first names.
Where I work it seems the only ones interested are the spanish-speaking “immigrants.”
The World Cup is getting much better ratings than for the NBA Finals.
The MLB World Series gets lousy ratings.
Don’t think the ratings are great? The U.S.A. v. Portugal match was the highest rated non-football event, EVER, on ESPN.
Marc A. Thiessen is an American author, columnist and political commentator, who served as a speechwriter for United States President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
A peck is 2 gallons, a peck is 1/4 bushel
>> 16 oz. per pint, 8 pints per gallon, 128 oz. per gallon?
It's not that complicated. It's halving/doubling
2 cups = 1 pint 2 pints = 1 quart 4 quarts = 1 gallon
Halving/doubling is better suited to everyday use than metric is. That's why it hasn't caught on.
Actually, disagree.
You can be exactly as precise in standard as in metric. What is easier in metric is not precision, it’s conversion.
The old English money was 12 pence to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound, and for some utterly obscure reason the guinea had 21 shillings. And then of course they had farthings and half penneys.
That’s the main reason we went to the metric system for our money.
The Founders, however, did not have the French Revolution compulsion to remake everything. They even decimalized the clock and the calendar, which didn’t take.
However, if the metric system had been available, I suspect the Founders would have adopted it.
Don’t forget about the fruity celebrations and chest pounding displays that are so common in football and basketball. At least in soccer that stuff doesn’t happen 40 times a game.
I like that it is so hard to score in soccer. I will never get how the ease of scoring is held up as some type of benefit, ‘Oh, we made it less difficult, so much better.’
Freegards
Oh is this why so many football players are brain damaged from their injuries?. If it were safer how come they have to wear helmets, mouth guards, shoulder guards, etc. Think about it
What I don't like is the first tie-breaker is not head-to-head results.
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