Dan Le Batard

I respect you immensely, and I thought it would be fun to catch the layman, the casual sports fan, the person that maybe has drifted away from the game a little bit.

Look, hand to God, I hate VAR.

It's kind of ruined the game a little bit for me.

And also, you know, I kind of miss the oligarch a little bit.

Let's be real.

So I had to bone up, and I watched plenty of Chris Winningham in the last few months and plenty of Galazzo.

And I got to tell you, like, you are such a great ambassador and caretaker of this sport.

And I wanted to bring you in so we can have a macro view of all these groups.

We're going to try to preview every single one of these groups, groups A through L. We're going to try to –

Get as much as we can in five-minute doses here.

And Chris knows all about soccer.

And we're going to try to make some predictions here.

And for those that don't know, this World Cup format makes predicting who gets out of the groups really difficult.

Why don't you tell the people why?

So it makes this very, very tricky.

So I'm not exactly sure how we're going to discuss that part of this.

I guess we'll kind of like earmark teams for potential advancement in that upper tier of third place finishers.

But let's get into it right away.

There are three host nations here for this World Cup.

The U.S.