The Weekend Focus: World Cup 2010, UFC 115 and NBA Finals
Welcome to the Weekend Focus. It's a rather lame, straight-forward name for a column that tells you what to focus on for the weekend in terms of bar-worthy events.
This weekend is quite straight-forward. Your primary focus should be World Cup; there's eight games this weekend (two Friday, three each on Saturday and Sunday). Here's your essential bar guide primer. Notable teams in action: Argentina (Lionel Messi! Diego Maradona! The latter is crazy as sh*t!), USA (obvious), England (They used to own us!), Slovenia (the average American high schooler couldn't find it on a map!), and Germany and Australia battling each other, which is a crapload of machismo in the same place. Seriously, could you wrap your head around a bar fight involving a bunch of Germans and a bunch of Aussies? It would make "Lord of War" look trite.
Saturday night also has UFC 115; it shoulda been Ortiz vs. Liddell (kinda cool in some respects); instead it's Liddell vs. Franklin (less cool). You can get some bar details for it here.
Game 5 of the NBA Finals is Sunday night; most people will refer to said game as "pivotal." A Game 5 is always "pivotal" in someone's eyes, even if you go into it 3-1 and it's a wrap game. Sportswriters love to use the word "pivotal." Pretty sure most have an F8 macros for it. This one is kind of pivotal, in the sense that it's 2-2 going in, and thus someone is gonna go up 3-2, which puts them a game from winning the NBA title. Likely this happens: Celtics win (game's in Boston), go up 3-2, hype machine commences, Lakers go back and take Game 6 in LA, and then it goes 7, which is what most basketball fans would have predicted anyway, and the Lakers win (it's almost impossible to win a Game 7 on the road, honestly). Your bar guide for the Finals is here. Remember, tho -- it's a Sunday night. You got work in the morning (or Netherlands vs. Denmark, a fairly entertaining game between countries that are close to each other, apparently). Go easy. Keep it clean.
Random pre-weekend thought: because no one truly gives Guster the credit they deserve for being a mediocre, college-student-centric band of the mid-1990s, you should consistently recycle the phrase "two points for honesty" in bar settings by instead saying "two beers for honesty" and then buying someone beers. It's just stupid enough to endear you to the right group of people. Visual evidence is here.
Bonus: lots of WAGs associated with these World Cup games. Make a t-shirt to honor them. It'll be fun.
Enjoy -- and be safe out there.
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