No Baseball. No Softball. No Shit!

The International Olympic Committee announced last week that it was dropping baseball and softball from the Olympics in 2012.

This blows me away. And pisses me off.

Read Fay Vincent's comments here from the New York Times.

Softball seems to have gotten swept along because of MLB's lax anti-doping policies. Boo!

I wonder if this is just an example of the world giving America the finger as Fay suggests.

So baseball and softball were passed over in favor of rifle shooting, archery, sculling, and Greco-Roman wrestling.

On top of that, none of the five sports vying to replace baseball and/or softball received enough votes to become an Olympic sport. Squash, rugby, golf, karate and roller sports were up for the open spots.

So they have eliminated two of the twenty-eight Olympic sports. Two that received viewership here in the U.S.

I. O. C. President Jacques Rogge pushed to eliminate the two sports. Dr. Jacques Rogge is from Belgium. This move was so anti-American that I expected to discover he was French.

The American teams have dominated in baseball and softball. This is on a par with the Soviets winning the 1972 Gold Medal in Basketball when they didn't deserve it.

BAH!

Bastards!