Petition to Reinstate Baseball in the Olympics

Happy to sign it when they go back to amateur players instead of the "pompous" pros.

I must say that I could not care less. I figure that baseball is so, so much better than the Olympics and all those sports that hardly anyone cares about.

I don't feel that re-instatement is the issue. The fact that the IOC and specifically the European faction is flexing it's muscle and spatting on American sport culture is what bugs me.

Let's find a sport the French are good at.....Oh, that list is short, there are none.

If there was one, maybe, they should put that on the chopping block.

The French have a "national sport".

Their national champion: Lance Armstrong.

Enough said.

Yea, the French stink in everything including protecting there country. Remember WII?

And they smell bad!

I think it's time for the French Delgation to the UN and the Security Council to pay their parking tickets in NYC...... We could get even that way by backrupting their country.

....and the only person with enough "muscle and leverage" to pull that off is Steinbrenner ...

Hmmmm. This may have been a bad decision by the frogs.

A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a Naval conference that included
admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies.
At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a group of half
dozen or so officers that included personnel from most of the other
countries.

Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a
French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many
languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked: "Why is it that we
always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking
French?"

Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the
Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have
to speak German."


A true situation and quote that got Admiral "Snuffy" Smith in a little hot water publicly but he had many behind the scene "atta boy's".

signed,
Le rz1

Not quite sure why the French are the bad guys here. Didn't they just get screwed themselves when the IOC unexpectedly awarded the 2012 Games to London instead of the favorite, Paris? The real problem is with the insular and unassailable IOC, which is a culture onto itself, comprised largely of self-important sovereigns whose corruptibility is legend. It is anti-Americanism to be sure, but it is of a peculiarly Olympian brand.

The Olympics has become a big commercial venture. Let the sponsors know of your dissatisfaction by not buying their products. The dollar speaks louder than petitions.

I think it is a shame that the IOC had to remove Softball from the Games. Baseball, well no one cares but the Cubans. But Softball needs to be there because there is nothing for girls to dream of past HS or college.

Don't know if the places of the people are real or not. But look at the signatures list and you'll see an overwhelming amount of people from England and Scotland that has sighne the petition.

The purpose of posting the link was a bit selfish --- not an invitation to politics. I guess you all missed the thread in After High School:

hsbaseballweb players playing for the UK National Team

Three of "our" players here might have had the opportuntity to participate in the Olympics. I was hoping for some support from baseball folks, silly old me.

The petition was started in Europe where our sport is actually growing in popularity. Obviously, the UK baseball community has a bigger stake in this as the host nation; hence the number of names from there.