US baseball team eliminated from the Olympics
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the idea of professionals playing/wanting to play in the olympics is pathetic to being with
its amateurs for crying out loud
its amateurs for crying out loud
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.
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
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...
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...
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.
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?
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?
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. :/
"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. :/
and they call it THE WORLD SERIES
finally a good point to say they should be called the american series
finally a good point to say they should be called the american series
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