Sometimes, you just don't get to gloat

Remember when David Beckham was coming to the U.S. to play for the L.A. Galaxy, and how he was going to make people in this country care about soccer, and how ESPN gave him the ol' "push to the moon?" How did that work out?

This is just one of the things in sports where we just don't get the chance to say "I told you so." There is never a "gotcha" moment. You don't get that win/lose result the way you get in a singular sporting event. (Like, say, the Giants beating the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, the only Super Bowl in which the Pats were not allowed to cheat.)

No, the Beckham story was one that faded away in a very slow and irrelevant manner, robbing us of the chance to say at any given point, "See, I knew no one would care about soccer, it will always be at best a niche sport in this country (and at worst a reason to riot and murder in others), and ESPN will have egg on their face for making such a big deal out of this guy."

So we never got a precise moment for that chance...though I guess I just took it now.