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US baseball team eliminated from the Olympics

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Provided those were minor leaguers, but this is still embarassing. And to think Roger Clemens was planning to pitch in the Olympics.
 
the qualifiers for the olympics are single games? that isn't very baseball-like
 
"Baseball is America's game," he said. "It doesn't belong to the Japanese or the Cubans or the Koreans or the Italians. This is sad, very sad."
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lol, Shaddup Lasorda, worst quote ever - I can't even take that seriously
 
the idea of professionals playing/wanting to play in the olympics is pathetic to being with

its amateurs for crying out loud
 
Originally posted by: kalster
the idea of professionals playing/wanting to play in the olympics is pathetic to being with

its amateurs for crying out loud
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sigh. I thought the olympics was supposed to be the "best athletes in the world" pitted against each other. The idea of banning pros from the olympics is bass ackwards to me.
 
olympics? what olympics? i thought that was next year? they already started the 2004 summer olymipics in november 2003? ?? :Q
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Countries have to qualify to be in the olympics?
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they do have to limit the no of teams , else they can go on playing for a month, just like soccer world cup or something
 
Originally posted by: kalster
Originally posted by: notfred
Countries have to qualify to be in the olympics?
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they do have to limit the no of teams , else they can go on playing for a month, just like soccer world cup or something
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Yeah, I guess, but I thought that each country that wanted to play could sign up one team and the Olympics WAS the tournament to eliminate them...
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: kalster
Originally posted by: notfred
Countries have to qualify to be in the olympics?
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they do have to limit the no of teams , else they can go on playing for a month, just like soccer world cup or something
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Yeah, I guess, but I thought that each country that wanted to play could sign up one team and the Olympics WAS the tournament to eliminate them...
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it is

but its not practial for a sport as time consuming as baseball
 
It seems to me that the defending champion should be guarunteed a spot in the next Olympics.

One fluke upset game means absolutely nothing to me...
 
Well even the better teams will always lose a game in baseball. I think it's a little strange to have a 1 game elimination type thing in this situation.
 
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Well even the better teams will always lose a game in baseball. I think it's a little strange to have a 1 game elimination type thing in this situation.
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WTF, I never read the stories and just assumed this was a double elimination thing.

This qualifying system is a joke. I would say the same thing if the headline was "Cuba Loses, No 2004 Olympics." Baseball inherently has too many random events happening to put such huge stakes on one game. If they want the best teams in the Olympics, they need to fix this. If they want teams that went 0-3 in the opening round and only advanced because the Bahamas didn't show up, then keep the status quo.
 
Looks like the way it was set up is each teams play games which determined how they're going to be set up in the "qualifying" tournament.

U.S was dominating every team and won every games, paired up with Mexico which lost every games. Mexico beat U.S and eliminating U.S. ooops

Cananda and Cuba will represent the North America in the Olympics.


In Asia, they use a round robin style of tournament and pick the top two teams to go. Japan, Taiwan (aka Chinese Taipei for people who doesn't recognize Taiwan as a country. *wink wink*), South Korea, and PRC were in Japan trying to qualify for the Asia column. I think Japan sweep the series and Taiwan came second and took the other spot.

Any one got the Europe column?
 
Originally posted by: kalster
Originally posted by: notfred
Countries have to qualify to be in the olympics?
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they do have to limit the no of teams , else they can go on playing for a month, just like soccer world cup or something
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The world cup in soccer is very limited, almost every country in the world qualifys, but only 32 teams get there.
 
Bleh big deal. If the pros would've been beat then I would care a little. Also people tend to forget that not only Americans play in the pros. Just stupid not to allow the best possible players from that country just because they get paid for doing what they are really good at. :/

"The U.S. team went 3-0 in pool play while Mexico lost all three games. But Mexico advanced when the Bahamas forfeited by failing to show up."

That is just so stupid. :/
 
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