Re: [OT] Completely off-topic and useless celebrating re: World Cup

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:33:57 -0700 (PDT), John Atkinson
<johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> wrote:

>And some of those seven are pretty tiny, so whether
>you're using number of countries, land area, or
>population, we're better than most of the world. . . 

The US was hardly contested until Mexico (it came second in its first
round
division). The US hasn't had to play against most of the big guns. You
can
hardly call being in the Round of 8 meaning the team is one of the 8
best in
the world. For that, you'd have to have a proper round robin tournament.

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