Infinite MonkeysFriday the International Olympic Committe canceled baseball and softball as Olympic sports! At first, like any true blue, red blooded American, I was pissed! Damn commie pinko bastards! Sonsabitches cancel Baseball?! BASEBALL!
Then I read that softball great Lisa Fernandez (Three Gold Medals) laments"
I feel one person, the president of the IOC, a person from Europe, has taken it upon himself to ruin the lives of millions, actually billions of women.
Millions? Billions? Lives ruined? Oh, please. Now I don't care.
Posted by JamesPh. at July 10, 2005 08:48 PMYeah, you could see this one coming. The girl's fast pitch games is totally, and I mean TOTALLY, dominated by the Americans. Every other country is competing for silver. Unless your American, there is no interest in watching our girls stomp yet another team into the diamond. I mean really, in the warmup to the olympics, the best college teams in the US were lucky to even score a run against our olympic team. (many of the best were shut out).
Our women should have thrown a few games I guess.
Tob
Posted by: Toby928 at July 11, 2005 01:09 PMI think it blows that baseball and softball were cancelled. I mean, if Curling and Synchronized Swimming are Olympic sports, WTF?
However, I think American teams should go back to the "all amateur" format, just to show that we can kick butt without bringing in professional "ringers." Particularly after last year's men's basketball debacle. How's this for a rule: Whatever college basketball team wins the final four in an olympic year gets to go to the olympics. Same for softball, baseball (if they ever return to the Olympics) and any other sport for which we have high-quality college teams.
Makes a lot more sense than, for example, choosing the World Series home field advantage based on who wins the friggin' All-Star Game. (Don't tell me that's a non-sequitur! We're talking about sports here, dammit!)
Posted by: Monkey RobbL at July 11, 2005 09:05 PMIsn't ballroom dancing an olympic sport too? And rhythmic gymnastics? Christ, what is this world coming to?
Yep, going back to the way it used to be and having amatuers instead of random "dream teams" would bring a lot of life and interest back to the Olympics. And don't get me started on how the home field advantage is selected in MLB. Who thought that was a good idea???
Posted by: JamesPh. at July 11, 2005 09:19 PMOriginally, the Olympics were supposed to feature contests of strength, agility and endurance in games applicable to war. So ballroom dancing and synchronized swimming don't cut it. But neither do baseball, softball, or volleyball. The games have changed. Personally, I don't give a damn.
Posted by: Ex-Monkey Ben at July 11, 2005 09:48 PMYou can't fool me with that "applicable to war" nonsense, you crusty old bastard. You just want them to go back to the all-nude format.
Posted by: Steve-O at July 12, 2005 12:38 AMWhy aren't we hearing from NOW?
Posted by: Ralph at July 12, 2005 12:55 PMInteresting question. Why aren't we hearing from NOW? I checked their website just now and no mention of the Olympics.
Their homepage does have a screaming headline
"Justice O'Connor Resigns ...
Women's Lives on the Line"
Umm, right. And billions of lives are ruined because the Olympics dropped softball.
And all-nude Olympics? ewwwww!
Unless you're talking Olympic Softballer Jenny Finch.
mmmmmm. Jenny Finch.
Posted by: JamesPh. at July 12, 2005 08:52 PMI would think that swinging a baseball bat well could have a military application.
Curling, not so much. Unless you're practicing how to gently slide a landmine across a glacier.
Posted by: Monkey RobbL at July 13, 2005 01:04 AMTime out Ump,
I love Baseball, so here’s a bit of a challenge for any Blogger. We love to connect the dots right??? You know trends, predictions, polls stuff like that. Baseball is evil because guys with big forearms hit home runs according to the finger pointers of goodness.
I have yet to hear of a Terrorist who plays baseball, but oh Moan-a-me my French-licking apologists. How many Bombers/Terrorist/Highjackers or whatever the politically incorrect term is today, love soccer. Yes you heard me, soccer, and the social experiment gone wrong. Now I know this will create a disturbance in the soccer-mom force of battle star America. If the data was collected, and an association made between humans playing soccer and their tendency to kill innocent civilians, just maybe we will quit apologizing for our home run hitters and focus on the real root problem.
Sending our children to soccer camp is like telling them to relate to the Euro-trash President of the Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge. In order to understand what this man considers a valid sport, all you need to know is in his sports career, he competed in the yachting competitions at the Games of the Olympiad in Mexico in 1968, Munich in 1972 and Montreal in 1976.
This creep spit on my country, and my game. Screw them all.
Blog the soccer loving terrorist connection please.