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<blockquote data-quote="Hazey" data-source="post: 127272"><p>Why don't you try and explain why it is a travesty? Not only, disliking American football as you do, will it be biased, but I very much doubt you know the slightest thing about NFL Europe.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think you are completely misunderstanding the reason for the World Baseball Classic. Yes, there were teams there which were completely outshone, but the idea of the WBC was to raise awareness and funding for baseball in countries where it is not one of the major sports - if you read interviews with any of the South African players, they were simply thrilled to experience playing in a World Tournament in a game that is 'not even third most important' in a sports mad country.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://ww2.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/news/teamarticle.jsp?ymd=20060306&content_id=1336457&vkey=wbc_team_news&fext=.jsp&lang=en&sid=wbc" target="_blank">http://ww2.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/n...=en&sid=wbc</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://ww2.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/news/teamarticle.jsp?ymd=20060306&content_id=1336457&vkey=wbc_team_news&fext=.jsp&lang=en&sid=wbc" target="_blank">http://ww2.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/n...=en&sid=wbc</a></p><p></p><p>There are some articles to prove my point.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Events like the WBC, or even the Rugby World Cup, encourage the 'smaller' teams to play the game - no-one (in their right mind...) is pretending that Tonga would have a chance against the All-Blacks this year, but the chances are that several years down the line, they might be at the level of Fiji, Italy, Argentina, etc. There are also upsets, such as the fact that the USA pitching got beat up by both Canada and Korea at the WBC, and that the supposed favourites, and the 'home of the game' had a record of 3-3 and finished last in their semi's pool.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>As for your short-sighted views on the American Football international competition, all of my points from above stand.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh, and just for your information:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article_perspectives.jsp?ymd=20060321&content_id=1357845&vkey=perspectives&fext=.jsp&sid=wbc&sid=wbc" target="_blank">http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article_perspectiv...wbc&sid=wbc</a></p><p></p><p>You should pay close attention to the 3rd sentence - you might be eating your words about France and South Korea.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hazey, post: 127272"] Why don't you try and explain why it is a travesty? Not only, disliking American football as you do, will it be biased, but I very much doubt you know the slightest thing about NFL Europe. I think you are completely misunderstanding the reason for the World Baseball Classic. Yes, there were teams there which were completely outshone, but the idea of the WBC was to raise awareness and funding for baseball in countries where it is not one of the major sports - if you read interviews with any of the South African players, they were simply thrilled to experience playing in a World Tournament in a game that is 'not even third most important' in a sports mad country. [url="http://ww2.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/news/teamarticle.jsp?ymd=20060306&content_id=1336457&vkey=wbc_team_news&fext=.jsp&lang=en&sid=wbc"]http://ww2.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/n...=en&sid=wbc[/url] [url="http://ww2.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/news/teamarticle.jsp?ymd=20060306&content_id=1336457&vkey=wbc_team_news&fext=.jsp&lang=en&sid=wbc"]http://ww2.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/n...=en&sid=wbc[/url] There are some articles to prove my point. Events like the WBC, or even the Rugby World Cup, encourage the 'smaller' teams to play the game - no-one (in their right mind...) is pretending that Tonga would have a chance against the All-Blacks this year, but the chances are that several years down the line, they might be at the level of Fiji, Italy, Argentina, etc. There are also upsets, such as the fact that the USA pitching got beat up by both Canada and Korea at the WBC, and that the supposed favourites, and the 'home of the game' had a record of 3-3 and finished last in their semi's pool. As for your short-sighted views on the American Football international competition, all of my points from above stand. Oh, and just for your information: [url="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article_perspectives.jsp?ymd=20060321&content_id=1357845&vkey=perspectives&fext=.jsp&sid=wbc&sid=wbc"]http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article_perspectiv...wbc&sid=wbc[/url] You should pay close attention to the 3rd sentence - you might be eating your words about France and South Korea. [/QUOTE]
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