I've seen upsets before, folks. I've called games where the underdog came out of nowhere. But what Team Italy did to Team USA in the World Baseball Classic? That wasn't just an upset. That was an embarrassment.

Italy 8, USA 5. And it wasn't that close.

Let me break down what went wrong, because everything that could go wrong did go wrong. The Americans came into this game expecting to cruise, and Italy had other ideas. From the first pitch, Team USA looked unprepared, unfocused, and frankly, complacent.

But here's the kicker - and this is the part that should worry every American baseball fan - manager Mark DeRosa admitted after the game that he didn't even understand the tournament's tiebreaker rules. Let me repeat that: The manager of Team USA didn't know the rules of the tournament he was competing in.

That's unacceptable at this level, folks. This isn't Little League. This is the World Baseball Classic, the biggest stage in international baseball, and the American skipper didn't know how tiebreakers work.

MLB Network tried to bury the clip of DeRosa's admission, but the internet never forgets. That tells you everything you need to know about how bad this looks.

Now USA faces an uncertain path forward in the tournament. They're not eliminated yet, but they've put themselves in a hole that didn't need to exist. The pressure is squarely on them to avoid one of the biggest tournament disasters in their history.

This is about hubris meeting reality. Baseball's most talented nation, with the deepest pool of players on the planet, got humbled by a team nobody gave a chance. Italy played hungry, disciplined baseball. USA played like they expected the other team to just roll over.

That's not how sports works. That's not how competition works. And now Team USA is learning that lesson the hard way.

They've got some soul-searching to do, and fast. Because if they don't get it together, this tournament is going to be remembered as one of the all-time American failures.