#lauren watches sportsball

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nothing like finishing a lovely evening of playing games, turn on my basketball game for the last 90s, to see that the johnnies have been shooting forty two percent from the free throw line

that's worse than if they'd just yeeted the ball with their eyes closed. flipped a coin to see if the ball would go in the net. from the easiest shot on the floor.

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watching basketball, and one announcer is so bad that when he said, "the ref should get two paychecks for this game!" the other said, "yeah, one for the game, and yours."

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here's the thing: this game between the Minnesota Lynx and the New York Liberty is a fantastic final game of a sports final, and there's no reason that America is watching frickin football when they could be watching Jonquel Jones go ham and Nyara Sabally having the game of her life and STEWIE WITH THE BLOCK!!!

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basketball is so good, march madness is top 3 best tournaments, caitlin clark is a fucking monster even on her worst nights, dawn staley is Coach Of the Year, refs suck so much, and I got to watch UConn lose in person with a sold out crowd bellowing at every twist and turn

I love basketball

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the thing is, I love watching ncaa basketball, but I also have to work tomorrow morning

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it's! time! for! BASKETBALL!!!!!!!

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I can't believe I'm writing this but my basketball team actually won a tournament game and they're almost certainly going to the ncaa tournament this year? the johnnies haven't made it to the semis in the big east tournament in TWENTY FOUR YEARS, and we're doing it? we're doing sports???

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happy most wonderful time of the year, it's basketball time!!!

my ncaa wbb team won their first game yesterday and it was GREAT

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MOROCCO I LOVE YOU SO MUCH GOALKEEPER BONO I LOVE YOU EVEN MORE SOCCER I LOVE YOU THE MOST SPORTS ARE GREAT

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once again hitting the point of SPORTS where sports is bad, none of my teams are good, the teams I wanted to lose instead won, refs are worse than useless, and it's not even conference season for ncaa basketball yet.

in other words,

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australia winning over denmark, second time to ever advance, first time winning 2 games in a single cup--heck yeah socceroos, congrats australia, sorry it's 4am your time

(...oh no this will be my life during the women's world cup next year. time zones continue to be the bane of my existence)

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USA ADVANCES TO THE KNOCKOUTS

the last 19 minutes of that game were exhausting I am fucking tired

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part of me is watching the usmnt play knowing that they can and will always let me down yet another time, but at the same time I'm over here looking at that Pulisic goal like

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the VAR bullshit was bad enough. the new way that ARs don't call offsides until the end of the play is going to punt me out of a window, it's so stupid I hate it so much and it completely murders any and all excitement, why is this happening FIFA how did you make your VAR rules even worse

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the South Korea-Ghana game was absolutely wild, and it is a sign of the caliber of this World Cup that it's not even the wildest game OR result of the tournament. I love soccer so much.

also the US plays Iran tomorrow for a chance to actually make it to the knockouts and I will be completely insufferable no matter what the result, because I am an American used to this team disappointing me so if we win, it'll be a delight, and if we draw or lose, I will revert into the person I was in 2018 when we couldn't even beat Trinidad and Tobago to get into the tourney

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I'm not yelling about it a lot here because I have family in town for turkey and American sports, but rest assured, I am screeching as loud as ever over the world cup this year, not least because it's a bonkers cup: Iran beat Wales, Saudi beat fucking Argentina (rip in rip Messi), Qatar built all of its stadiums on the backs of indentured servants and slaves and still can't pay off the refs to make them look like a decent team, Memo Ochoa continues to be the absolute bamf, and the US held England to a 0-0 draw today where the US actually looked like a soccer team.

it's like if England came over to the US and somehow held the Superbowl winners to a 7-7 tie and then won in the wretched bizarroverse overtime that American football insists is reasonable