Reasons to watch the World Cup on Telemundo:
1. They are one of the only broadcasters that run zero ads during the "hydration breaks". Instead they run highlights of the game and show fans doing cool stuff inside and outside the stadium. ✅
2. Spanish commentary is an absolute vibe and even if you don't speak it you'll be screaming NUEVAYOL by the end of your 2nd or 3rd game. ✅
3. They don't refer to the hydration breaks as the "end of the quarter". ✅
Reasons not to watch the World Cup on Telemundo:
1. You LOVE Alexei Lalas and you need that Fox Broadcast so you can hear everything he thinks about the World Cup. ❌
For me, the decision is easy!! VIVA TELEMUNDO!!
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
New York City listen to me right now if you're near a convenience store right now, any type of 24-hour store, go into the store right now and put your hand in the cash register for no reason. Their money is your money as of right now