Day 7 Thoughts

An excellent day of World Cup action has my writing, among other, juices flowing:

• Mexican Coach Javier Aguirre: the Latino Gary Busey.
• With 10 goals in three games today, it's nice to see that FIFA finally decided to replace the well disguised, oversized whiffle ball they'd been trotting out with the actual Jabulani.
• All it took was one Academy Award-winning acting job and a Nigerian red card for Greece to finally score in the World Cup. In addition to the potential blowing-up of my bracket, not a single euro was burned in the aftermath. Come on, Whoever-scored-opolis, I expected better.
• Maradona. Seriously, you gotta stop hugging the closest/most unfortunate person in sight every time your team scores. It's killing your flow with the ladies. You've got the best offensive players in the world. You're supposed to beat South Korea, dude.
• Speaking of Maradona, how can his gastric bypass not be called the (lap)Band of God? Not to be confused with the Band of God. It's just too easy. Too beautiful.