Team USA continues to have the most rancid vibes of any team in the World Baseball Classic. O'Neill is a right-wing lunatic.
This is so accurate
A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:
HOLY SHIT.
A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.
Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
I don’t know if Alex Vesia is in fact of Italian descent but if he is, his strategy of pounding caffeine before racing from the bullpen seems like it could be inherited wisdom.
Shouldn't be rare to see this said by a US senator
“There is a providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America.” - Bismarck
#WBC
Randy up to bat today in the 9th with the bases loaded, Mexico leading 4-3
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You’re laughing. Team USA might be eliminated from the WBC through a combination of arrogance, rancid vibes and inability to understand rules or do arithmetic and you’re laughing.
Nothing has hammered home that I’m in my mid-to-late 30s quite like seeing Manager Glasses Albert Pujols.
Once Mexico goes up a run, the rest of the game goes like the second game of the Mets/Braves doubleheader at the end of the 2024 season except this game inexplicably won’t involve Joey Lucchesi.
100 percent
TV host running the US into the ground is our thing though
this game proves that you need a real manager like Dave Roberts for Team USA because he has the kind of experience that allows him to know exactly when to put in Clayton Kershaw to make a loss even funnier
The postgame shows are in shock, with talking heads alternating between laughter, anger, and absolute dumbfounded silence.
Someone explains to Trump that something bad happened and it’s Mexico’s fault, and he takes to Truth Social, calling for an investigation and tariffs for a “RIGGED” match.
Absolute bedlam ensues. The umpires meet in a group, shouting. Somehow Mark DeRosa spawns and starts spitting and shouting in the face of the home plate umpire, who shouts back, gestures toward home plate. Fights erupt in the stands.
Once he makes it down the tunnel, the home plate umpire signals out. He never touched home. Mexico wins 4-1. The US is eliminated by the narrowest of margins.
The cheers in the stands slowly ebb, and are replaced with a pensive silence.
He gives a thumbs up and waves. They carry him into the locker room, with the solemnity of a mass.
As Randy trots around third, a stumble. He rolls toward the dugout. Not in the agonizing painful way that one sometimes sees when a hamstring blows out, or an ankle gets twisted. He’s… somersaulting. And then he’s still.
There’s confusion, a scramble. The trainers check on him.
Cheers erupt in the stadium as the American fans slowly realize (or have explained to them) that this means Team USA has made it out of pool play. It’s a miracle, from an unlikely savior.
The Italians are devastated.
It looks like a ball out of hand. Randy swings at it, and inexplicably makes solid contact with a ball two feet above the zone. Defying physics and sense, the ball looks like it’s headed for the Crawford boxes.
It’s a home run! Mexico wins 6-2! The dugout empties!
Coming out for the 9th inning for Team Italy to finish off Team America is...Holy crap, it's Luigi Mangione
Damn, I missed the game due to work. But cool to see World Baseball Classic and Italy vs USA be the #1 and #2 trending topics.
Incredible. Congrats Team Italia. Baseball humbles all, and sometimes especially those who need it the most.
It's been 147 days since Janet Mills launched her campaign for Senate in Maine.
The Chuck Schumer-recruit's "Issues" page is hidden from the website menu bar. You can only find it by typing in the URL.
And even if you find it, there's no info on the page. Just a donate button.
#BREAKING Yard Goats unveil the "Anti-Hero" a grilled 2-foot all beef hot dog with 11 powdered donuts, a mustard-ketchup drizzle & sweet candied pink & blue sprinkles... all on an artisan Italian loaf bun. Like a friendship bracelet, but yummy. Only available on Era's Night 6/9.
I had a relative who started giving people ball point pens when her dementia got really bad, don't know what made me think of that just now
