Put away your favorite club’s jersey and get your flags out: it’s international break time again.
Copious amounts of ink and Internet bandwidth will be sacrificed this week fretting over the United States national team, which opens qualifying for the 2018 World Cup on Friday night with a game against St. Vincent and the Grenadines (7 p.m. Eastern time, ESPN2) in St. Louis. Do not buy in to most of it. Unless, of course, the United States loses to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, in which case you may just want to dig a big hole in the yard and sit in it for a while.