Baseball and Softball out as medal sports in the 2012 Olympics

[POJO_Risin]

lmfao...they are blaming the US...saying it's because we won't let the Major League Players play...

and that our steroid scandals helped cause it...

what a bunch of dumb fuckers...

when are they going to realize that it's gone because noone gives one double damn about a sport that Cuba dominates...

dumbasses...

[Figs]

...is ping pong still in?

[POJO_Risin]

lmfao...yep...

they took out baseball and softball because of the amount of competitors it brings in...they want to cut down...

so they are going to add golf...

and rugby?

last I knew...rugby teams were just as big as baseball and softball teams...

what they are trying to do is probably take out some US medals...not sure...

but hey...nothing like the ball grabbing sport of rugby to issue in Olympic wonder...

[Unchainme]

I can't Wait For The World Cup of Baseball that should be amaszing, Best of the best going at it for Global bragiing rights.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

I've never paid much attention to Olympic baseball anyways, no sweat off of my cojones...

[POJO_Risin]

I watched the Atlanta games baseball team...when Lasorda was coaching...

but much past that...I don't give a shit either...

I generally tried to catch the game against Japan and Cuba...

[Va Beach VH Fan]

That was the one when Benson was on the team, right ??

[POJO_Risin]

It would have had to been...1996...

[Va Beach VH Fan]

The beginning to a moderately average, if not mediocre, career....

[POJO_Risin]

Of course...a lot of people said that about Schmidt...until he turned 30...

of course...then Schmidt got good...

[stringfelowhawk]

I bet they still have the lamest fucking "Olympic" sport known to man.
I don't know the name but I saw it while flipping through the channels to see which game they were showing. A rider gallops a fucking horse around a square area the size of an endzone. NO jumps, no barrels or other obstacles. Just literally galloping a horse in a big square. The rider didn't do tricks or stunts. They didn't tell jokes they just GALLOPED A HORSE. What the fuck does this have to do with the olympics? What part of this act is the human skill that makes it qualify as a human competion?
I have to stop before I lay into Olympic Taekwando which is more boring than watching grass grow in the middle of the desert.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

So was it turning 30, or leaving Pittsburgh ??

I can list a bunch of former Pirate pitchers who are pretty productive in other places....

[POJO_Risin]

Well...certainly Schmidt was just as dominating with Pittsburgh as he was with San Fran...

but 2 things happened...

1. Offense

2. He learned that you didn't have to K everyone to pitch well...

[Figs]

In all honesty I wouldn't miss baseball either. It's just that with the other weird (I know, who defines weird) sports that are in, why not have baseball?

If it were up to me, I would only have sports that the Olympic gold represents the ultimate achievement in that sport - like the Track & Field events, and a lot of others.

Why bother with Basketball, Baseball, & Soccer when you have the NBA championship, the World Series, & the World Cup of Soccer? Most every athelete in those sports would consider Olympic Gold a secondary achievement.

[monkeythe]

The American team didn't even qualify for the Olympics last year, so the theory of eliminating a US medal doesn't fly. The real problem with the sport in the Olympics is that the best players in the world aren't on the field and the Olympics should be a contest between the best athletes in the world. I'm glad Selig didn't even think about stopping the MLB season to keep baseball in the Olympics.