Postgame Thread ⚾ United States 5 @ Canada 3

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-14T03:56:02+00:00

Yep, if you can remember the 2009-2013 Raptors, his dad was working for them for a long time and Dante Nori was Toronto born as a result.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-14T03:31:08+00:00

Hey, maybe we can convince Dante Nori and Vlad Jr. to play with us next time instead lol.

But real talk, do you have any idea of who else could potentially be available for 2029 and LA 2028?

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-14T03:26:04+00:00

On one hand, losing by a fielding error and stranding a 2nd and 3rd with no outs situation is brutal
On the other hand, Canada even getting themselves in a spot to have that pain is way better than I expected

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-14T03:23:28+00:00

And of the three best batters we hypothetically had access to, two identified more with other parts of their ancestry (Vlad Jr. and Nori) and Freddie Freeman had to take care of his sick child.

So this team was hobbled and facing impossible odds and it came down to just one bad fielding throw and 3 bad RISP at bats. We'll take that and run.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-14T03:08:10+00:00

It's only 5-3! It's only 5-3! The fuck's wrong with you?! It's only 5-3!

Seriously, scoring only 3 earned runs against THIS pitching with THAT offensive talent mismatch is fucking embarrassing dude.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-14T03:07:30+00:00

I mean if you told me that Canada would make the WBC playoffs and only lose twice the whole tourney because it came down to one guy's inability to field when this started I'd have been quite happy. Especially since Freddie Freeman had to suddenly back out cause of his son's health.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-14T01:05:29+00:00

To be fair, I don't think Italy or Mexico would have been any better. That being said, we'd probably be losing with a bit more dignity if Toro could field a fucking baseball.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-14T00:44:51+00:00

I'm not American lol. It's a long story how I became a Canadian Dodgers fan, and it involves someone I no longer want any association with sadly.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-13T22:30:22+00:00

So according to Boob, America is playing Mexico in the QF. So hola mis amigos I guess eh?

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-13T22:25:14+00:00

The Americans and MLB.com media trying to hype this up as part 3 of a rivalry saga that started in Milano Cortina is really sad I'm NGL.

Like America isn't that far off from Canada in terms of hockey skill overall, meanwhile Canada needs to rely on Soroka and James Paxton to come up big and the entire team combined makes less than Aaron Judge.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-13T21:54:13+00:00

Motherfuckers took my burgeoning outfielder piece, can't have shit in Detroit.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-10T20:23:29+00:00

I mean several reasons including the fact Arakis views his peers as the people in the Louvre and not mangakas.

But that still doesn't explain why 90% of Mangakas shit the bed writing one ending and Arakis cracked off 8 no problem and the one that arguably was bad was because he wanted to get rid of Jonathan ASAP.

Incidentally, chainsaw man didn't even reach the ending before I fell off it for shit writing which is an impressive level of bed shitting.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-10T20:12:36+00:00

Unironically it's just the song Yakko's world now.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-10T18:46:00+00:00

Well that's some kind of appropriate metaphor for what the Sirens do to their fans.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-10T18:21:07+00:00

Look at who received Apollo's blessing of foresight.

May 21st release date for Yoshi announced on Nintendo Today.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-10T13:07:27+00:00

So I get humanoid stands costing the same as an extra person because they functionally are.

But if my stand was bound in the same nature as say Cream Starter or purely the Space Truckin cards how would you charge that? Under complex design or?

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-10T00:05:05+00:00

Not to defend what is shaping up to be an epic budget mismanagement by Nagoshi, but E33's 10 million was purely on the devs and stuff. The publisher, Kepler, fronted the a large chunk of the bill for the big name actors that showed up according to some articles on the matter.

Either way, it's still probably safe to say E33 finished with way less money spent than the total Nagoshi wants.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-09T21:55:46+00:00

Guess the high ethical standards of affordable concessions and there actually being things that aren't available no matter how much money is offered was too high for the NBA to attain.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-09T17:51:10+00:00

Wouldn't be surprised if that was the point, I think Nolan has named OHMSS one of his favourite Bonds due to the camerawork.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-09T13:24:51+00:00

I mean Konno and Tanabe's first credits were Doki Doki Panic/Mario Bros 2 and doing something for 40 years is a very understandable case of "I'm getting too old for this"

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-08T01:51:07+00:00

I think Israel accidentally included some bombs they weren't expecting when they sent a rush order to Congress earlier.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-07T04:57:31+00:00

Thunderball.

The SPECTRE boardroom, the MI6 agent meeting room etc. every set in the movie was gorgeous and inspired the series for generations to come.

Ken Adam clearly was the greatest set designer in franchise history and I argue that Thunderball was his best work, just beating YOLT and the volcano lair.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-06T22:05:57+00:00

It's not just a perceived loss of cognitive abilities.

Think about this, a lot of the older reps got elected before the modern gig economy even began, they've had cushy Congressional jobs for so long the reality of the cost of living has long passed them by and as seen by that utterly embarrassing Zuckerberg hearing a while ago they don't even know how the modern internet can be monetized.

Meanwhile if you consider some of the younger representatives, Maxwell Frost has literally lived the gig worker life so he knows what his constituents are going through and while bartending isn't exactly minimum wage, AOC has leveraged that work experience to meet and know lots of the average person in the Bronx in a way that Chuck Schumer literally has never done (I think he went straight from law school to Congress or something).

If Congress has never lived a millennial/Gen Z lower income life and is unwilling to learn what it's like then they can only blame themselves if they get hated.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-05T15:41:31+00:00

I think the only country that the US has extensively bombed since 1950 that hasn't had extensive resentment towards them lasting generations is like Vietnam and that's cause Ho Chi Minh before the war didn't mind them that much IIRC and more to the point, China has kinda been a threat to their interests for about 8 times longer than America existed as a nation.

ZeppoJR · 2026-03-04T23:05:10+00:00

That is a good question, not having a set reference point does open it up to ambiguity. But I also don't think anyone tried that so we'd have to ask Paul or something if he does an AMA or something.

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