For those who missed it or forgot about it – and I hope there’s some of you – we are having a World Cup “pick ’em” contest this year. Instructions for joining our group are here. The grand prize is control of my Gravatar for six months. And bragging rights for all eternity.
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Not only will the winner get to control Mark’s gravatar for six months (hint: he’s a big Buffalo Bills fan) but the winner will also get to designate the subject matter of a post by me.
If you’re feeling at sea about the odds of the various teams advancing, Nate Silver might be able to lend you a hand, you silly American.
Come on and join the fun!Report
If you win, I’m willing to reciprocate by letting you assign a post topic to me.
Given that only 3 of us have signed up, and that we’re on the eve of the start of the tournament, and that you’re no fool about football, the odds of that are uncomfortably high.Report
You do me too much credit, Professor. But we shall see.Report
All: the Mexico : Cameroon match, you need to get signed up before 6:00 a.m. (Eastern time) tomorrow.Report
First goal of the World Cup: an own goal by Brazil.
I doubt anyone picked Croatia to win, though.Report
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And now the first successful acting job to get a yellow card and penalty kick. That didn’t take long.Report
So how frustrating is it that I correctly predicted how many goals Croatia would actually score, but Mark gets credit for correctly picking the score? 😉Report
Heh. I’d first like to thank the referee, who made an abysmal call on the PK and a dubious (if understandable) call to disallow a second Croatian goal. And also the Croatian keeper – while both Brazilian goals from the run of play would have required very good saves, they were still both shots that a world class keeper would have made.Report
For what it’s worth, the referees are off to an absolutely embarassing start. The referee yesterday was obviously abysmal, but now Mexico just had a clear goal overruled by a terrible offsides call. Which, for the record, I’m ok with. Because Mexico.Report