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Baseball Gets Jacque'd Off

MFS62 Feb 10 2006 05:14 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 10 2006 05:35 PM

And softball, too: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8504326/#storyContinued How do you feel about them no longer being Olympic sports? Later

Edgy DC Feb 10 2006 05:20 PM

I feel one person, the president of the IOC, a person from Europe, has taken it upon himself to ruin the lives of millions, actually billions of women.

sharpie Feb 10 2006 05:44 PM

Maybe if those women hadn't run up the score...

vtmet Feb 10 2006 06:17 PM

The baseball part, IMO, is not that big of a deal... However, IMO, as a parent of a couple of teenage softball players, the softball being removed sux...Olympics are one of the few venues for kids following softball...and one of the few places other than high school and college that these softball players get a good chance to compete...

Rotblatt Feb 10 2006 07:40 PM

Sharp, sharpie. Good form.

Nymr83 Feb 10 2006 08:30 PM

fuckin foreigners, this is anti-americanism is what it is, we kick their asses so they run and cry and get rid of our sport. we should boycott european goods or something lol

TheOldMole Feb 10 2006 09:40 PM

This is bullshit.

Frayed Knot Feb 10 2006 11:24 PM

I'm not too bothered by this. Yeah the IOC is dominated by stuffy and corrupt Europeans diplomats who don't care about baseball in part because they have little chance at winning and are busy stuffing the summer games with junk like rythmic gymnastics. But the best fits for the Olympics have always been those sports where the Olympics are that sport's biggest stage: track & field, swimming, skiing, skating, volleyball, etc. For basketball, baseball, soccer & tennis it's a minor sideshow that means little in the pecking order of accomplishments. To that end, I'd prefer seeing softball stay than baseball, those players have no other major venue. Besides, we've got the WBC all ready to roll.