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caring about soccer. It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. I'm actually

caring a little bit about soccer in that the increased interest in soccer or football due to the U.S.

almost pulling this out does help us, I think, join the rest of the world in something positive, which that's a good thing, but I still don't care.

And I just, I do care, I do care when they hit the ball into the net with their cup. That was,

that was a great shot. That's impressive. I know that the great, Lake Ridge Stephen Gilliard was like a

Manchester University fanatic. Oh, really? For reasons that I don't ever understood, never understood.

But I don't have any space in my head for professional sports at all, really.

I mean, I know, I understand the words that are coming out of people's mouths.

I just don't understand the deep personal attachment they get because I was never I ever played professional sports professional amateur sports was where you people like me went to have the shit beaten out of them in school so I sort of shied away from that and my parents never took me to games of I went to a couple of baseball games when I was a kid I watched the Cubs on television like one was

supposed to um and got chased away from most of the sports that I ever had an interest in so I just

never particularly I was never interested in something that didn't I never wanted to join a club

that wouldn't have me as a member so by the time again the school well I should say the schools multiple places I ended up going to school, I don't think any of them ever had a sports team.

Oh, okay. Loyola might have that I was just not aware of, but that was there was no, you know, there were no fighting artists, you know, the fighting poets and the fight in videographers and things like that. So there were no, I didn't ever go to a school that has a long and illustrious history of every Saturday night you go out and support the team.

So I don't get it.

I mean, I get that it's real and I get the people understanding.

They get a lot of pleasure out of it.

Good for them.

I just never got bit and it's probably too late now. Ironically, the university I attended for undergraduate school, Brandeis, had a soccer team.

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