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cherylpf
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 Posted: 07/08/05 - 10:27 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Wait! You're all forgetting that baseball sucks. |
No, I'm cranky that softball was cut.
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 10:27 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Wait! You're all forgetting that baseball sucks. |
 I've fallen asleep 3 times in the stands, at different stages of my life. Naw baseball can go out of the games i feel. while i feel sorry for those that have trained for the games to then no longer be eligible in thier preferred sport, it's time to make way for more viewed sports
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MM
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 10:28 Post subject:
From the article:
"Baseball, which became a medal sport in 1992, has been
vulnerable because it doesn't bring top Major League players to the
Olympics. Softball, a women's medal sport since 1996, has been in
danger because of a perceived lack of global appeal and
participation."
MM's translation:
Baseball and softball didn't generate the television ratings we had hoped, so we're ditching them to make more time for beach volleyball and rythmic gymnastics. THEY pull in the numbers...
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Pug
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 10:28 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | curling stays
ball room dancing stays
rhytmic gymnastics stays |
I think curling is winter olympics.
I can't find dance as an olympic sport that gives medals.
Equestrian baffles me because you are relying on the skill, breeding, and health of the horse as much as the skill of the rider. At least in table tennis your paddle won't catch a cold.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 10:30 Post subject:
| MM wrote: | MM's translation:
Baseball and softball didn't generate the television ratings we had hoped, so we're ditching them to make more time for beach volleyball and rythmic gymnastics. THEY pull in the numbers... |
If that really is the truth (and I suspect it could be) then track and field events are at risk then too.  Of course, they already don't get the TV time.
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Pug
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 10:30 Post subject:
Can they bring back tug of war?
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akern
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 10:31 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Wait! You're all forgetting that baseball sucks. |
You're just angry because they didn't add "Crappy Garage Painting".
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Noley
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 10:32 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Wait! You're all forgetting that baseball sucks. |
Thank god I cannot crawl through these internet miles and kill you.
Why do you hate? 
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Pug
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 10:32 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: |
If that really is the truth (and I suspect it could be) then track and field events are at risk then too. Of course, they already don't get the TV time. |
Steeplechase is gonna be cut soon, huh?
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cherylpf
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 10:33 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: |
Steeplechase is gonna be cut soon, huh? |
Not if PH has his modern pentathlon way....
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 10:44 Post subject:
| MM wrote: |
MM's translation:
Baseball and softball didn't generate the television ratings we had hoped, so we're ditching them to make more time for beach volleyball and rythmic gymnastics. THEY pull in the numbers... |
this is the truth.
vs
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 13:09 Post subject:
Badminton and Table Tennis could have been cut to save Softball.
I'm not too big a fan of professional players in the Olympics. Especially basketball, baseball, hockey. I don't know why, but it just seems wrong.
I don't think "professional" athletes truly care about winning the Olympics. I don't think they get how much of an honor it truly is to win a gold medal because they mostly care about their day job championship and their next million $$ paycheck.
There are some professional athletes who get it.
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 13:13 Post subject:
Let us not forget the stupidity of TRAMPOLINE!
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HighHeat
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 13:33 Post subject:
I want to see Jousting added....
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TOsteve
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Posted: 07/08/05 - 14:09 Post subject:
| Ms. Jenn wrote: |
I don't think "professional" athletes truly care about winning the Olympics. I don't think they get how much of an honor it truly is to win a gold medal because they mostly care about their day job championship and their next million $$ paycheck.
There are some professional athletes who get it. |
Canadian hockey players seem to really care about international hockey. Even the rich NHLers. Canadians have, what borders on, an unhealthy obsession with hockey though...
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