After hearing all those fucking horns on the weekend broadcasts, we’re not sure volume during World Cup games is a good thing.This past Saturday, the dawn of the Morgan Junction Festival approximately coincided with the U.S.-England World Cup kickoff, which meant the Beveridge Place Pub was off-the-rails busy. Thankfully, nearby Zeeks Pizza wasn’t, and played host to a handful of large tables and bar dwellers in its spacious, multi-TV layout.But there was one problem: All the TVs were on mute. And when one polite patron requested that the sound be turned on, the manager told her they weren’t legally permitted to turn the sound on, due to their lack of “sports bar license.”Turns out there’s no such thing as a sports bar license, confirms State Liquor Control Board spokesperson Anne Radford.Zeeks’s front office called the manager to get an explanation, and he claims he’d gotten state law confused with an internal policy at a chain burger restaurant he once worked at. In a state with less serpentine (and sinister!) liquor laws, we’d call bullshit on such an excuse. But this is Washington, so we’ll give Zeeks’s manager the benefit of the doubt (and then some, as he seems like a really sweet guy), and rest assured that the sound will be turned on should pizza patrons want it from here until the Cup concludes in July.But personally, we’re not resting assured. After lunching at the Attic in Madison Park on Sunday during Germany’s blowout win over Australia, and having been afforded the benefit of surround sound, we’d much rather Zeeks kept muting the action. It’s a “beautiful game” with or without indecipherable Scottish announcers and crowds whose incessant airhorniness sounds like a massive swarm of bees are flying around in the space between your ears.