Baseball back in the Olympics?
Baseball back to the Olympics for the 2016 games? A group led by Harvey Schiller, who is the international Baseball Federation president will go to Lausanne, Switzerland to appeal to the IOC. In the group there will also be the Bob Dupuy MLB president and the Detroit Tigers outfielder Curtis Granderson.
I am all for getting baseball back into the Olympics. The concensus argument seems to be that no big name MLB players play in the games. But I don't think that it should matter because the Olympics shouldn't be about revenue it should be about countries team's getting together to see which country has the best team. It seems as though baseball was taken out of the Olympics because no big name MLB players were on any teams, which would create a lot of revenue from people coming to watch them play. The World Baseball classic has managed to make it so that major players can play, why can't the Olympics?
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It shouldn't matter if no "Big Name" MLB players are playing in the Olympics or not, Baseball should be in the olympics regardless of who plays, and thats final. Also Softball should come back to the Olympics as well, because it not only is what little softball players look up to but it's not there fault that they beat everyone, other countries should stop being sore losers and try to make their teams better.