Question about the Olympics and baseball

Syrinx

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Sun Aug-15-04 02:07 AM
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Question about the Olympics and baseball

How the hell did the USA not qualify for baseball? Didn't we invent that one? We at least adopted it from cricket. How did that happen?

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Bluebear

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Sun Aug-15-04 02:08 AM
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1. Here's the scoop

Team USA is sitting out the Olympic tournament for the first time since baseball became a demonstration sport for the 1984 Games. The U.S. defeated Cuba for the gold medal at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia, but the Americans were eliminated in the Americas Qualifying Tournament in November.

In that tournament, the U.S. lost a quarterfinal game, 2-1, to Mexico, the team Canada defeated by 10 runs in the semifinals to qualify for Greece. Canada was one of two teams to make the cut from that tournament. The other qualifying team, Cuba, defeated Canada in that tournament's gold medal game. This week, though, they were trounced, 9-1, by the Canadians in Italy.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20040811&content_id=825183&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp

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Syrinx

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Sun Aug-15-04 02:28 AM
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3. how is that possible?

Baseball is like basketball in 1976 or something.

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jpgray

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Sun Aug-15-04 02:13 AM
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2. I thought it was going to be 'Which does Costas suck more at covering?'

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chuck555

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Sun Aug-15-04 04:38 AM
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4. Hear! Hear!

Costas is so annoying. Bloated ego?. Bob gets the GOLD!

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Guy_Montag

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Sun Aug-15-04 07:11 AM
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5. Do you not have to be amature to compete?

In all sports, though I notice that rule gets relaxed more & more these days.

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Syrinx

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Mon Aug-16-04 12:32 AM
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6. well, lots of NBA guys playing basketball

Edited on Mon Aug-16-04 12:32 AM by syrinx9999

Though that didn't help much. Puerto Rico defeats US? What's up with that?

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Room101

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Mon Aug-16-04 01:08 AM
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7. The US basketball team lost. I'm pissed!

I hope that they get pissed and play with some damn heart and passion.

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