He shaves his arm pits, it makes him aerodynamic when he fights.

But the WBC is terrible. Nobody cares about it except for every other country that cares about baseball.

Can’t agree more. I can’t understand the mentality of a “baseball fan” that can look at the starting lineups of DR and PR tonight and not want to watch.

Jesus. Commonwealth is just a name. The Commonwealths that are states are members of the Union. Puerto Rico isn’t a commonwealth in the same meaning of the term, it’s just an invention that was created to give a sense of their status, taking from the British Commonwealth countries but really having little in the way…

PR has issues with crime, health care, education and debt because certain companies came in, corrupted people and then left after decades.

Before this, our best olympic moment was (arguably) beating Team USA basketball at the 2004 olympics.

I think it’d be awesome for Puerto Rico to just have an awesome moment without constantly being reminded of their political situation

Actually the proposals were not bailouts. All PR wanted was the ability to renegotiate their debt since by law, the Feds said they cannot. It was stupid to reject it since it wouldn’t have cost the tax payer a dime but that’s stupid politicians for you. I’d like to see them part of the US and get the full benefit of…

There’s a very good but old video of Ruben Berrios where he explains just this.

FWIW, most sports get at best limited coverage if any at all during the Olympics. That Bravo has seemingly been dedicated to bringing coverage of a single sport would actually seem to be a privileged position for tennis.

It's not up to PR, as it's been said many times the status can only be changed by congress. PR is a COLONY.

Also, I always side-eye whenever Republicans say they’re pro-statehood. Puerto Rico would be the 30th most populated state in the nation, giving it a decent number of electoral votes every four years that would almost certainly always vote Democratic. Why would they want to risk not winning the White House ever again?

Commonwealth isn’t really a status tho. It’s a bizarre half-measure that has no real legal or constitutional status. Nobody really expected it to last this long. It’s even worse for our terriorties in the South Pacific whose citizens are U.S. Nationals who are only Americans when we decide they are, but not other…

It’s not their fault, it’s ours. It’s not like Puerto Rico is in limbo. It’s us putting them in a perpetual state of shitty limbo. The fever pitch that is anti-Hispanic racism in this country right now would make statehood unteneable, even though it’d be a lot cheaper. And the independence movement there is miniscule.…

In regards to the ‘12 plebiscite you’re referring to, that’s not entirely accurate. The conservative pro-statehood political party (ironically enough called New Progressive Party) purposefully left out a pro-commonwealth option in lieu of what they called a “free association” option, which was defined in a way that…

I love me some USA medals but damn...I think I love these first countries’ First gold ones more. Imagining the whole country going nuts like this (hell yeah, Fiji.)

Brown people in general, honestly. Every morning of my childhood, I waited for the school bus and watched people’s housekeepers and nannies walking from the nearest WMATA stop to the houses where they worked, often upwards of a mile away. None of their employers ever fucking bothered to hop in their (new, expensive)…

After the team won the cup in 2010, I was out with some friends and my girlfriend at the time. Kane came to the bar we were at, sprayed everyone with beer, and as he was walking out, my girlfriend and her friends ran into him. They asked if they could get a picture with him, at which point he stopped, looked them up…

So basically, this guy took it upon himself to be the bouncer INSIDE of the bar. He took the douchiest position, albeit one that does have a legitimate merit occasionally, and transferred it to a place where it wasn’t meritorious or legitimate at all. And then he got his balls handed to him. Good show, my man. Good…