>Seja o árbitro de Argentina x Egito
>Ignore um tapa no rosto sofrido por um jogador egípcio
>Invente um pênalti para a Argentina
>Ignore o gesto em "X" feito pelo treinador do Egito para denunciar racismo, deixando de acionar o protocolo antirracismo da FIFA
>Anule um gol legítimo do Egito
>Valide o terceiro gol da Argentina, apesar de aplicar um critério diferente do usado para anular o gol egípcio
>Marque a esmagadora maioria das faltas a favor da Argentina
>Ignore as faltas sofridas pelo Egito
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
@barstoolsports Josh didn’t play the best but he has carried us all year it’s not his fault. The refs the coaching everything he is doing all he can and it’s terrible to see he deserves better we deserve better