Dear Alexi Lalas,

What’s that? Our boys in Red, White and Blue won’t make it out of “The Group of Death”?

Sorry my little hippy turned prepster friend… you are incorrect and should probably “ex-patronize” for a while to think about that comment… and my friend Carl the Freedom Eagle says you can take your guitar with you.

Overall the world’s greatest have come to play in Brazil and it has been a GREAT tournament! Messi has shown that he can put Argentina on his back and score when it counts. Neymar’s hair and feet have been magical during the group round. And Luis Suarez has really showed some teeth in helping Uruguay proceed to the knockout round.

Next up for the US is Belgium, who is going to try to prove that size doesn’t matter in the World Cup… Well let me tell you something Belgium… the home of the BIG Mac, BIG Gulp and the Notorious B.I.G. (RIP) beg to differ. (P.S. Belgium, you make delicious beer, never change)

Everything from here on out is “win or go home” and it all starts tomorrow … which means you and your pool participants need to download the FREE WorldCup2014_EntryForm_Round2 updated spreadsheet on the Tips & Tricks page of www.ExcelRainMan.com. Make sure all pool participants get their completed Round 2 forms to the Pool Manager before 12pm Eastern tomorrow. Time is of the essence!!

While there is an updated manager (2014 World Cup Manager updated) on the Tips & Tricks page of www.ExcelRainMan.com, it is probably easiest for pool managers to just fill in the round 2 teams in the R2 – Winning sheet in the manager (Columns A & N)… make sure spelling matches that in the brackets to have the manager work correctly.