Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

Yeah, I wondered how that could be.  Did you dispense with your Ad Blu stuff as well?

You mean DEF, or urea?  Yes.  No DPF, no DEF.  

Yesterday happy-- warm weather and the season's first crawfish boil with family and friends over at my sister's house.  

Speaking of car efficiency devices, I've learned that my new car's auto start/stop feature doesn't activate when the A/C temp is set to "Lo". 

Which is where I always have it set. 

So, it seems I don't have to worry about disabling it. 

The whole WBC made me happy.  Bummer that the USA offense collapsed, but Venezuela deserved it, eliminated USA and Japan.  And watching how pissed the USA players looked watching Venezuela celebrate, I think this tournament is only going to grow

Hell of a game. Ended up watching that over basketball.

Thought it was weird that Aaron Nola pitched for Italy.  I read that he was eligible because his great-grandmother emigrated from Italy a bunch of years ago, but.....how much are you really tied to another country in that case?  And why would pitching for a country you've never lived in and to which you have only bare familial connections be enticing?  One of our former pole-vaulters, Mando Duplantis, competes for Sweden in world events like the Olympics, etc., but one of his parents is Swedish and he's held dual citizenship with the USA and Sweden his whole life, so that makes more sense.  

But anyway, I heard Italy got good use out of Nola, so that makes me happy, I guess.  Would've been cooler if he'd been paired with Skenes for the USA.  I heard Skenes did well too, so I guess that's another thing that makes me happy.  

Thought it was weird that Aaron Nola pitched for Italy.  I read that he was eligible because his great-grandmother emigrated from Italy a bunch of years ago, but.....how much are you really tied to another country in that case?  And why would pitching for a country you've never lived in and to which you have only bare familial connections be enticing?  One of our former pole-vaulters, Mando Duplantis, competes for Sweden in world events like the Olympics, etc., but one of his parents is Swedish and he's held dual citizenship with the USA and Sweden his whole life, so that makes more sense. 

But anyway, I heard Italy got good use out of Nola, so that makes me happy, I guess.  Would've been cooler if he'd been paired with Skenes for the USA.  I heard Skenes did well too, so I guess that's another thing that makes me happy. 

This is an interesting thing that I just saw an article on this I think over the weekend... The below isn't the same article, but it discusses the same thing:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/14/travel/italy-citizenship-law-restrictions-constitutional-court

Seems Italian law has long stated that if you're born to an Italian, you've a right to citizenship. So even if your great-grandparent(s) emigrated and arrived at Ellis Island >100 years ago, every descendant retains the right to Italian citizenship. 

Last year, Italy changed this, and the CNN article is about a court ruling that recently upheld the law establishing the removal of this long-standing right. Apparently it could still have further legal wrangling ahead, because the constitutional court that upheld this law is not the highest court of the land... So we'll see. 

But like you, I think it's weird when someone does this... It (referring to other sporting events) was even mentioned in the article:

Citizenship by descent has not always been so unpopular. At the Tokyo Olympics, 12% of the Italian national team 
12% of the Italian national team were born abroad, including 10 in the US.

My own thought is that often you'll see this from athletes who can't qualify for the teams from their actual home countries, so they use this type of "loophole" to compete.