{"id":120,"date":"2009-02-15T23:18:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T04:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/?p=120"},"modified":"2010-11-18T16:40:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T21:40:05","slug":"dos-a-cero-siempre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"dos a cero siempre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All my soccer buddies had their own Dos a Cero stories, but not me&#8211;every time there&#8217;s been a US-Mexico game since I started watching soccer, the timing just hasn&#8217;t lined up for me to go.  This time, though, it worked out.  So I went to Columbus, and I got to see that guy I remember as a gawky, sullen teen loping around for daddy&#8217;s Metros completely tear shit up for daddy&#8217;s Nats, and also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Booed a guy at the supermarket<\/li>\n<li>Got soaking wet<\/li>\n<li>Didn&#8217;t hang the <a href=\"http:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/?p=117\">Wake Up<\/a> banner&#8211;we went to set banners just as the storm hit, so in a matchday fitness decision, it was left in the car<\/li>\n<li>Which is probably what should&#8217;ve happened to Nery Castillo<\/li>\n<li>Hey, Naked Juice, how come I can&#8217;t get Black and Blueberry Rush in Boston except for that one time like two years ago?<\/li>\n<li>Met everybody I was hoping to run into; it&#8217;s pretty great how if you just hang around the right meeting points long enough, you find everyone eventually<\/li>\n<li>Saw several people at the airport who left the bar after I did, but who were flying out before I was, making me wonder if they bothered sleeping<\/li>\n<li>Only just washed off all the glitter<\/li>\n<li>Did hang the 2006 <a href=\"http:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/?p=43\">Obey Gooch<\/a> banner, since it was proven weather-tolerant<\/li>\n<li>Had dinner postgame with complete strangers<\/li>\n<li>Ate enough pub grub I&#8217;m good on that for weeks to come<\/li>\n<li>Note to self re: above: open soccer bar with menu composed of mostly Thai dishes<\/li>\n<li>Tried to throw my scarf to Altidore, wind picked it up, no idea who got it<\/li>\n<li>Pulled up next to the World Cup Express school bus only to discover it was a buddy driving, a buddy who needed directions to the postgame meetup<\/li>\n<li>Watched some dude lamely kick the front bumper of my rental car postgame as I sat and waited for traffic to clear<\/li>\n<li>Also watched two Chivas fans either fighting or making out or both, who the hell knows which<\/li>\n<li>Was delighted to see, on postgame review, the ad using &#8220;Over There&#8221; to promote the WCQ cycle; makes me feel hip about using WWI posters as banner material<\/li>\n<li>Uh, Sacha, you should probably figure out how you really fit at the big people table<\/li>\n<li>Also I think Demps had been up all night with the baby<\/li>\n<li>Got a great response to the first phase of the Campaign 2010 project, about which I&#8217;ll post in detail next month<\/li>\n<li>Got home on Thursday afternoon 47 hours after we&#8217;d left, exhausted, dehydrated, and sore&#8230;yep, that&#8217;s a national team game all right<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=2004\">Mildly in-jokey pix to prove it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All my soccer buddies had their own Dos a Cero stories, but not me&#8211;every time there&#8217;s been a US-Mexico game since I started watching soccer, the timing just hasn&#8217;t lined up for me to go. This time, though, it worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/?p=120\">tell me more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,6,20,8,16,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tifosi.hooverdam.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}