2010 World Cup

The World Cup starts tomorrow and I have been frantically working to complete my bracket. Filling it out has been a pain in the ass…since it is a round robin tournament and I have to place the teams myself…it has taken me a lot longer than I thought it would. Plus, I've been toying with it for so long that I think it's about time that I just make a decision and put everything down in writing.

To tell you the truth, I've never been a huge soccer fan (despite playing it for as long as I can remember as a kid and all through high school…), not to say that I dislike it, but it's just hard for me to get into watching soccer. But, hey, you go abroad and soccer is freakin' everywhere.

Anyway, as you can tell from my bracket, I don't have the US doing all that well...haha. Despite wanting to have some pride for the US soccer team, I really don't think they're going to even make it to the second round. But hey, if they do (and/or if there is some other Cinderella story that should happen), I'll gladly eat crow and have my bracket go up in flames. But other than that, I am playing it extremely conservatively… since the Cup has never been played on African soil, some of the field conditions are supposedly quite questionable, and there are a number of key injuries already being reported. I went with the traditional big dogs and hope that there won't be too many upsets. So…we’ll see how well I do.