Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

All football today including football because the staff more than ever has

completely tuned me out I don't even know if we're on the air I know we're not on

TV although I can see myself. The narcissism

really kicking in because we still have the television monitors, but when I was chatting

with my good friend Garrett Ritt moments ago,

as he was breaking down in Vivid detail what was working for the Dutch side,

amassing that one-ill lead over Ecuador,

with World Cup Fever sweeping the studio here in Southern California.

I casually said how far away are we from getting on the air?

He said three two so here we are ready to go writ 99% checked out and it's only going to get worse because let me reach over there's a button right here

the countdown to first touch is underway, Team USA and the UK in a couple hours and

now I'm going to have to show up on Mr. Soccer because this is when I get a little bit antsy.

Oh you think you know soccer and I start telling stories and it's coming up in the next hour

about attending a Cosmos match in 1977 as we said goodbye to Pele.

Where's Georgia canalia when you need him? I'm the voice of Arizona soccer for

Pete's sake.

So we will get into what's going on in Qatar.

I'm going to moralize, I'm going to rip off

from Bryant Gumble and all the deep thinkers in our industry.

There is no reason other than bribe money

that we're playing a World Cup in Qatar and we're playing it in the fall still I'll get you set for United States

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