World Cup Bloggin'

This is painful. We got back from anniversary trip bliss to see the first US game. And we're down 2-0 in the start of the second half. ARGH. Besides the fact that Czech is offsides every 5 minutes, we really should be down 1-0. Our defense kinda collapsed and let the big guy in the middle get a header in the first few minutes of the game. The second goal was just a dynamite 1-in-1000 shot through multiple defenders, 20 yards out with perfect placement. I have no illusions that we can pull this off, but hopefully we can at least get on the board....

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