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Well, that's what MLB gets for not requiring that clubs make their players available for the Olympics like other sports such as soccer do... they keep citing scheduling clashes but it is really only their lack of desire to do anything about it that sees the problem persist.
And after Lasorda screwed Australia over last time by failing to release two of Australia best pitchers who were signed to his organisation even though their seasons were already over, I'd just like to note that the failure to qualify couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.
Anyway, as much as I love baseball, the sport really will have no-one else to blame when, as is being touted, it gets cut from Beijing 2008. Its a shame, but maybe their slot will get filled by a sport with an actual committment to the Olympic ideal.
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Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
- Emily Dickinson
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