Ron McGill

An eight seed got there.

A nine seed isn't, the Americans overall, so I misspoke earlier and I said that Mexico was favored against America when Mexico was favored against Italy.

We just got the calculations wrong.

I misspoke.

Can you guys tell me whether or not the Americans are or were favored at the start of this tournament?

Was it the Dominican?

No, no, no.

The Americans were not even even money.

Well, the other thing that's interesting about this is that this doesn't get to be the level of historic boneheaded until the next game is played.

Because if they actually get eliminated for this, do you retroactively get insanely mad in a historical stain for Mark DeRosa?

Because you're going to associate his name with this particular mistake instead of his major league careers as?

Where and how does this stick?

How pumped was he to see Bam get 83 last night?

Because you swap all the first take topics about Bam with Mark DeRosa.

Mark DeRosa is sitting there in his hotel room.

Yeah, Raiders.

Way to go, Raiders.

Way to do that.

And locally, the Wizards or the Lizards are just as pumped about the Max Crosby development.

It's just a whole bunch of people holding up meat shields.