{"id":4766,"date":"2010-06-15T09:53:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T09:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/15\/world-cup-open-thread-and-poll\/"},"modified":"2010-06-15T09:53:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T09:53:06","slug":"world-cup-open-thread-and-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/15\/world-cup-open-thread-and-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Open Thread and Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re several days into the <a href=\"http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/world-cup\/?cc=5901&#038;ver=us\">World Cup<\/a> now, and I have just about settled on my rooting strategy for countries I have no personal connection to: I&#8217;m going to root for countries where we&#8217;ve sold the rights for <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> over countries where the rights haven&#8217;t been sold yet.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good strategy for producing a mix of teams&#8211; I get to root for both Brazil and Portugal, for example, and also underdogs like Japan and South Korea&#8211; but it has one major flaw: we&#8217;ve sold Italian rights. And I find it <em>really<\/em> hard to root for Italy, one of the flopping-est, whining-est, stalling-est teams out there. I was really glad that Paraguay scored first yesterday, because Italy with a one-goal lead is well nigh unwatchable.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, consider this an Open Thread for discussion of the World Cup. And just for fun, here&#8217;s a quick poll asking you to rank sporting errors:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3348619.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/3348619\/\">Which of these individual sports breakdowns was the worst?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">online survey<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Amusingly, all three of those epic chokes broke in favor of a team I root for. I think I&#8217;ve blocked out the ones that went against my teams&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re several days into the World Cup now, and I have just about settled on my rooting strategy for countries I have no personal connection to: I&#8217;m going to root for countries where we&#8217;ve sold the rights for How to Teach Physics to Your Dog over countries where the rights haven&#8217;t been sold yet. This&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/15\/world-cup-open-thread-and-poll\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Cup Open Thread and Poll<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soccer","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}