Agony, ecstasy at Cafe Presse (Photo: Frances E. Dinger)
CHS toured the Hill spots where staff got up early to give neighbors and friends a place to watch Friday morning’s Team USA World Cup match together. Here’s what we saw. Have a picture of the morning’s fun? Send it to [email protected] (And for our DVR friends, try to keep the comments spoiler free, please)
For those of you on watch for spoilers, these Baltic people are just naturally happy (Photo: Staton Dubois)
Don’t fuck with me! I’ve already nailed 1. Will nail the rest :)
Lots of people hoping to enjoy this game on custom time — please keep it spoiler free!
You can’t be serious. If people are saving these games with the expectation of avoiding news, something’s going wrong.
And I’d also think that if people are watching only for the results, something’s probably wrong there too…
Stop thinking because that is clouding your judgement.
There is a big difference between watching a game knowing the results and watching a game not knowing the results.
Ditto what Yancy said.
Yancy and final answer,
Neither of you watch sports.
Justin, maybe you should just add a spoiler alert in bold at the beginning of any of the World Cup posts **Beware: comments may include details of World Cup games — including scores**
This allows people to view the story spoiler-free and others can share their thoughts on the games as they happen and the time-shifters can add their comments eventually, too.
And then Justin, if you are planning to time-shift viewing a game maybe have someone else monitor comments until you watch the game, too.
Thanks Linder. Reasonable as always!
I’m biting because I honestly don’t understand this policy. Why are sports not being treated as news? It seems like a sporting event is a one-time event and should be covered (and commented on) in real time. I can understand not spoiling a movie, for example, since not everyone can be expected to watch it at the same time. But the vast majority of people watch sports live, so it feels silly to pretend that something hasn’t happened.
policy :)
Again, you don’t watch a lot of sports. Football World Cup aside, the vast majority of sports more popular outside of the US such as football and rugby are not watched live in the US.
Sports has fans and news generally does not.
There is surely a published set of CHS bylaws, right J? :)
I propose a soccer match between those of us who “do” and “do not” watch sports to settle this. Whatever this is.
What is the reasoning behind this policy, j? You usually make such good decisions on this site, but to say that I can’t discuss a well-publicized (to put it mildly) result with my fellow Capitol Hill fans seems like a bad call, almost as bad a call as when that referee… [excised for fear of “policy”]…
I guess don’t know when people watch sports, but I do know that sports happen live, and I know it’s silly to pretend otherwise.
OK. You can start spoiling now. *Policy* lifted!
Love the “praying fan” in the first picture!