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The World Cup has ended.

It is every, you know what, I can't say every time it comes around.

It's my favorite month that year of sports because if it's in a middle of the night time zone for the U.S., it really dampens it.

Like I think my, and again, it's the World Cup.

It shouldn't be centered around the u.s

it's talking about me from my perspective i that i think i might have been at my peak

building youth soccer fandom in oh two when the world cup was in south kore. And I just remember being bummed.

I remember being on, like, I think I was in the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri with my dad.

And at like two in the morning, went downstairs to the hotel lobby to try to watch one of the games.

And conversely, I vividly remember almost everything about the 2014 World Cup, in part because

that one was in Brazil, and so the games were basically aligned on American time zones.

And so this one was just so awesome in every way imaginable.

And it captivated, obviously, the world as it always does, but it captivated America in a way no World Cup has previously.

And, you know, I spent a King's Ransom going to these games.

Tough spot for me, and we'll get to it later, of my lifelong philosophy of sporting

event tickets are free as long as you bet on the right team.

I went to four games.

Not only did my team go over four,

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