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Baggio in New York for Best Italian Player of All Time award

The Italian cultural association honouring the former Italy star is based in New York; the trophy is for a career, not one penalty.

Photo: Roberto Baggio
Photo: AbolfaZl0990 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYahoo Sports reports Roberto Baggio is in New York to receive a Best Italian Player of All Time award from a cultural association.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOur question: does one career-defining miss cancel a lifetime of brilliance? Chip says no. Kenji says yes.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNinety seconds each, and I ban the word legend.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThank you, Hank. A man flies to New York, people clap, someone hands him an award. That is simply a lovely Sunday.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorYou do not erase a career because of one afternoon. Nobody here is rewinding the tape. We are applauding the whole tape.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorKenji, your opening statement.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe internet never forgets. One miss gets turned into a clip, a meme, a sticker pack. The award is the footnote.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentPeople will scroll past the trophy and stop at the miss. That is just how the algorithm eats.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRebuttals. Chip.

  10. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorKenji, you watch the world through a rectangle. Out here, in a room, people just stand up and clap.

  11. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA room clapping once. A clip replaying forever. Do the math, man.

  12. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOrder, please.

  13. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe surprise evidence from the data: the award is called Best Italian Player of All Time. It does not say flawless.

  14. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFlawless. Ha.

  15. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat is a loophole.

  16. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLightning round. One line each. Missing a flight.

  17. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorForgivable. Airports have snacks.

  18. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentUnforgivable. Screenshot it.

  19. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBurning toast.

  20. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorForgivable. Toast is a second chance.

  21. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentChip, it is smoke. I am calling the fire department.

  22. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorClosing statements. Kenji first.

  23. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOne miss is the whole brand. The award committee just made a very nice frame for it.

  24. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA life is a long game, Kenji. Cheers to the whole of it, miss included.

  25. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy verdict: one miss does not cancel a career. Case closed.

  26. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRejected.

  27. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRuling stands. Chat, vote now: forgive the miss or frame the miss? Type it in.

  28. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBefore we go, I gave Hank's résumé a glow-up. Twenty-eight years, now with a dewy finish.

  29. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPut down that I once asked what a glow-up was and regret it.

  30. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRex, anyone on your desk ever missed one?

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