That thing going on in Qatar

As anybody who knows me at all can tell you, I'm a huge baseball fan, to the exclusion of all other sports, basically. I mean, I'll watch other stuff occasionally but I've gotten totally bored with football, plus the Texans totally suck, and have for a good while now. (And while I dragged Rob to so many Astros games he finally got interested in baseball as a defense mechanism, he's pretty much indifferent to all other sports.)

But I have to say, I got interested in the World Cup this year, pretty much for the first time ever. Here's my entire history with soccer: I think I went to some sort of pro soccer game once (late 70s/early 80s? was there some kind of attempt at a league around then?) and I actually played intramural soccer a little bit at UT. And I mean it about "a little bit." (The only thing I was good at at all was getting in the way of the ball.) But I didn't grow up on it, nobody American and my age did - certainly not in Texas, at least. Kids' soccer was a thing that happened considerably after I was too old for it.

Anyway, I was actually rooting for Argentina by the end, mostly because of Messi. That French dude (whose name I promptly forgot) is pretty good too, but I like for the old guys (what was he, like 35 or something?) to be able to end their career properly. And the US managed to not look too terrible either.