But if it really is 4-4 in the bottom of the 10th and you're pitching for Italy. If the Mexican batter squares to bunt the automatic runner to third, you'd be a damn fool not to go along with it.
If the WBC ever arrives as baseball's answer to the World Cup, something like Barbados-Grenada would absolutely be on the table. But I doubt that a team of Italian-Americans who will play a season in front of American fans will actually deliberately lose for Team Italy's survival.
4-4 in the 10th is also weird! If Italy doesn't score, they (probably) are eliminated if Mexico scores without making an out. But if Mexico makes an out, now Italy survives by losing again.
Imagine it's 3-3 in the 9th. Scoring for Italy is risky! If they don't score, Italy can guarantee they advance by allowing exactly one run. They could guarantee this by walking the run in!
On the other hand, if they score, they would be knocked out by a 2-run bottom of the ninth for Mexico.
Potential for perverse scenarios in Italy-Mexico at the WBC.
Italy advances with a win OR by allowing 4 runs or fewer in regulation (5 if they get 1 out in the 10th).
ol' reliable Elon Musk - No hit again
this time in SOTU attendance
Musk fans are bizarre. They bet on him to be speaker of the house last year ffs
bro calls MLK a plagiarist in the self-insert DCU fanfic he's selling 💀
well now that this is past i just hope they all managed to catch measles
There is no such thing as benign surveillance.
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H2A guest worker visas are finally a big enough program that farmers are ready to switch to that instead of undoc'd workers.
That's why they're rounding up undoc'd people.
Farms don't really need them anymore, & they're "too hard to control."
That hasn't changed!
A red fox leaning against and licking a block of ice.
#AbolishICE
it is funny how all the fictional monsters we imagined taking over the U.S. for the last 30 years are objectively better people than the current regime. Give me Skeletor, please. Cobra Commander wants to run shit? He can hardly be worse than what we're rockin' today. It's worth a shot!
it would be pretty cool if rfk jr got rabies
ICE trying to set an example for the sober drivers plaguing minneapolis
bsky.app/profile/jame...
ICE is the paramilitary wing of the Republican Party.
i think the lesson is you're not a sovereign state without nukes.
hey can I have some uranium?
My dad just referred to the US as a “petroterrorist state.”
Nailed it.
he's protecting himself from getting kirked
9 billion is just the largest number joe thompson could think of
no idea
comment from Mr. No Harm: Maga aunt update: I bet her $1000 that the Guardians would not change their name back by next Thanksgiving
shoutout to this guy
i found an opinion from a professional about the tax status of prediction markets, which you might want to look at:
www.forbes.com/sites/nathan...
2. the tax status for prediction market income is unclear, but it doesn't count as gambling. most people treat it as ordinary income though some try various other dubious shenanigans, generally hoping trump's irs won't care
regardless it won't be affected by the 90% deduction cap
doing some research
1. the 90% deduction rule won't affect your 2025 taxes
thinking about this bc the consensus of the smart leftists i follow here is that platner is bad news but their opinion is not prevailing
the older people know from experience that you have to kick the nazis out of the bar
it frustrates me intensely as a leftist bc you're right and we're throwing
that law can outright turn a winning year to a losing one
and also force losing players to pay tax. hell, i think a monkey randomly making ML bets would have decent chance of owing some tax
fortunately for me kalshi trades count as short-term gains, not gambling income
bob said he'd leave the board if the jays won the series
i'm already yapping unfortunately
seems like the primary use of these ai videos is deception if not outright misinformation
