Quelques articles de médias d’information italiens locaux avec des commentaires en ligne que j’ai trouvés
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Par SgtSlice
Baseball
Quelques articles de médias d’information italiens locaux avec des commentaires en ligne que j’ai trouvés
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Par SgtSlice
17 Comments
> at least you know that whoever comes first wins
I dont think anyone has ever won a baseball game 1-3
I always love when people who’ve never seen baseball before, react to it. It’s so funny to see their confusion. But to give the commenters their credit, they seem to actually be trying to understand and are proud that they’re doing well and repping their country.
I’d love to hear an Italians understanding of a balk be translated through whatever translator was used.
If baseball wants to truly be more global they should try to be more like Formula 1 or other motorsports
There’s already an orange and black team in both
What keeps pulling me back to the Italy story is the identity piece. Most of this roster are Americans who maybe had one Italian grandparent and got a phone call from the federation. And Cervelli as manager adds another layer — he’s Venezuelan-born, grew up between two countries, now managing a team that reflects something similar in a lot of the players.
I covered sports tangentially as a journalist for a few years, and there’s always a ready take that frames something like this as cynical — these aren’t really Italian players, it’s just eligibility tourism. But watching Cervelli on that bench, and watching Italian fans who don’t know what a balk is learning to track the score — I find it hard to be that cynical about it. Something real is in there, even if the eligibility structure that made it possible is a little convenient.
Much more entertaining than debating what is or is not a strike
“Since for the World Cup we are cooked like bananas in the sun, we hope that the blue baseball shirt will honor us”
Simply beautiful. 🤌
« ALFREDO LACOCCA
Since for the World Cup we are cooked like bananas in the sun, we hope that the blue baseball shirt will honor us »
Italians roasting the national soccer team will never not be funny to me
Mama mia! That’s a spicy meatball!
How many of their players speak Italian?
Don’t feel bad – some of the umpires don’t understand the rules, either.
“You must create a movement to have a movement.” 🔥🔥🔥
I’ve got a question that just hit me. Does Germany and Ireland compete for this thing? Sheer numbers alone tell me if Italy can compete 2 countries with more Americans with that ancestry should be able to as well. I’ve looked into it before and getting Irish or Italian citizenship is comparable and Germany recently relaxed its rules about dual nationals. Does any of this even matter? Is the real reason that there’s 0 interest in those countries? I have no idea. But give me access to ancestry.com and I guarantee those 2 could have really good teams.
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
I think Italy has as many Venezuelans on the team as they do Italians.
“Whoever has the club is in attack” 🤌
I once tried to explain baseball to someone who never saw it before coming to the US.
I told them it’s rather simple that proceeded to get bog down in explaining the rules and gameplay. Baseball (and many other sports) is like a language, you grow up with it you’ll easily understand it, but if you didn’t it’s going to take some time. I’m 41 and after all these years, there’s still things that happen I don’t understand or knew was possible.