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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

watching Spain win the World Cup felt like watching my dog, Tayto, who craves Ball and is not exactly sure what to do with Ball but would rather die than spend a second without Ball

I don’t think it’s fair to say my dog, Tayto, likes having ball. He needs having ball.

Is Tayto happy when ball in mouth? Perhaps. But when ball NOT in mouth, he is shaken. (Quite literally, he violently shakes when ball not in mouth.) If you throw ball, you might think from the ferocity and passion with which Tayto chases ball that he enjoys playing fetch. Wrong. He does not enjoy playing fetch. He is merely trying to minimize the milliseconds he is without ball. Ball, to Tayto and many others, is life.

So it is with Spain. Spain won the World Cup by having ball and being driven to madness by every moment they did not have ball. What do they want with ball? This remains unclear. Occasionally, they shot the ball into the opposing net, perhaps out of obligation, perhaps just to see how it felt. In a tournament filled with spectacular strikers breaking goalscoring records, scoring felt like a side quest for Spain, a diversion from their ruthless, fanatical need to have ball at all times.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social

TODAY! IN! SPORTS! One last World Cup newsletter! 🇪🇸 Spain has no interest in you touching or even looking at the ball 🏆 World Cup awards (multiple Cabo Verde mentions) 🇺🇸 what's next for our USMNT fandom

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Today in Sports! Campeones del Mundo

Spain were ball hogs in the best sense of the phrase. PLUS: the Sports! World Cup awards! What's next for the USMNT? And more!

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Waffle House of the Dragon @greenakers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Cucurella may display aggressive behaviors when separated from Ball

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totnes49.bsky.social @totnes49.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Good for Tayto. The US team performed beyond expectations and that should have been enough. Unfortunately Infantino and Trump turned the whole event into a tasteless Americana farce. These two ignored the basics of what "soccer" is about in the rest of the world. As for "half time" - no words.

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