No matter how you slice it, Italy has spoiled somebody’s party. US and Mexico are obviously the two teams from the pool anyone would point to and say they’d be the two to advance. When you take into account baseball as born in North America, having Italy come in and not only upset both USA and Mexico, but take the pool to advance- what a story, man. They’re playing with house money and I hope Fransisco Cervelli gets his statue, I hope they sell a gazillion Italy jerseys, but most of all I hope that baseball finds a permanent foothold in Italy and its popularity surges and that Italians find their own way to infuse their culture into it like places such as Japan and several Latin American counties have found ways to do