{"id":32,"date":"2010-06-13T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=32"},"modified":"2010-06-13T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T03:07:00","slug":"the-goal-is-to-score-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"The goal is to score, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capital Sports colleague Cliff Barnes touched on this in his comment about <a href=\"http:\/\/capitalsportzone.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/world-cup-americas-team-reflects.html\">Brian Abernethy&#8217;s blog entry<\/a>, but it bears repeating. If the score in most World Cup matches remains at or near nil, so, too, will the interest of the everyday American sports fan. Doesn&#8217;t matter who&#8217;s playing if the final score is zilch-zilch.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s different when the U.S. is playing, or, say, the Americans need Slovenia to tie the Brits (we might need to brush up on <a href=\"http:\/\/g.sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/world-cup\/blog\/dirty-tackle\/post\/Algeria-fan-rides-the-lights-Slovenia-dance-lik?urn=sow,247925\" target=\"_blank\">Slovenian dances<\/a> later in group play). But when France and Uruguay tie, at zero, after 90-plus minutes, I&#8217;m seeking another can of Coke Zero or another segment of Colin Cowherd.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m a soccer fan. I played as a kid, and I play now. But give me 6-5 in the Stanley Cup playoffs any day over nil-nil. And if I feel this way, imagine what a letdown all that scorelessness is for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-9sRAlGnHYQ\" target=\"_blank\">Andres Cantor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital Sports colleague Cliff Barnes touched on this in his comment about Brian Abernethy&#8217;s blog entry, but it bears repeating. If the score in most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}