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Olympic sports that should be gotten rid of

Sirkickyass said:
That has more to do with the natural variance of the sport, the roster fielded by the US team, and the format of the WBC than anything else. And if you follow baseball even a moderate amount then you know that. You're also misrepresenting a lot of things to magnify the importance of the WBC, and I suspect you're doing so intentionally. To date, 16 countries have participated, not 28. The number you're citing may participate in the WBC in 2013.

Ping pong, by the way, really is like the baseball of China. It's the official national pastime. Extremely popular in other east asian countries as well.
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It has to do with many things. Parody being one of them. Schedule being another(some of these participants don't get a full ST). This obviously goes both ways though considering that the Major Leagues are stacked with these foreign players who also might play winter ball, but don't get a full ST. You can't sit there and argue with me that the US teams who have participated are really any more talented than those "powerhouse" teams that have been identified.

So 28 countries will participate in the 2013 WBC. Wow, you got me. Here's a cupcake. 28 teams are participating in 2013. Nothing more to be said.

I never argued that Ping Pong should be excluded from the games or that it wasn't an important sport elsewhere. I made a point to AKMVP that it was not all that popular in my neck of the woods just as baseball probably isn't popular in his. So while he can argue that ping pong is deserving of being an Olympic Sport, I should be able to argue that Baseball should be as well.

I am guessing you are on my side in that you want it back in the Olympics. If not, I really can't say you are a baseball fan to begin with. With the sport growing as it has, I think it should be in the Olympics. But hey, we'll see what happens.
 
MoTown16 said:
Asian countries.
So your counter argument re: baseball and softball fails by the same standards.
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Agreed. I would like to add in one little thing though. He specifies that baseball has only 4 powerhouses and lists Canada as one of them. While Canada has some nice players in the MLB ranks including Ryan Dempster, Brett Lawrie, and Joey Votto to name a couple. He clearly doesn't know what the powerhouses are if he leaves Venezuela and the Dominican Republic off of the list. Obviously these guys aren't going to be playing in the Olympics because it coincides with the Major League season, but that does not meant that they can't take college players or even minor leaguers to play against each other in the Olympics. I am fine with that. Is it ideal? No. But baseball is continues to grow and has a place in the games.
 
Anything where a floral arrangement is involved--whether handed to the winners, used as decoration, or placed as a distraction directed towards horses.



Edit: I haven't seen an actual floral arrangement, but assumed there would be some somewhere. And they do hand flowers to many of the event winners, which seems contrived and un-sporty somehow.
 
Catchall said:
Anything where a floral arrangement is involved--whether handed to the winners, used as decoration, or placed as a distraction directed towards horses.



Edit: I haven't seen an actual floral arrangement, but assumed there would be some somewhere. And they do hand flowers to many of the event winners, which seems contrived and un-sporty somehow.
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And carrying this over to Winter Olympics, any sport which causes fans to throw stuffed animals to the participants, especially male participants.
 
MoTown16 said:
And carrying this over to Winter Olympics, any sport which causes fans to throw stuffed animals to the participants, especially male participants.
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Good point. That said, I also don't think ski jumping has any practical application to real life. I always feel a bit awkward when I see that.
 
On the subject of winter olympic sports...who was the first luger to approach another guy and suggest a two man luge. "Dude, if you get on the luge in skin tight spandex and I lay on top of you in skin tight spandex, maybe they'll let us in the Olympics!"
 
The Chinese like ping pong better than baseball because that's only sport they got room for to play growing up.

A ping pong table's square footage is twice as big as the average person's living quarters over there. That's a fact.
 
I thought synchronized swimming is hilarious and for some reason I had an easier time watching water polo than any kind of soccer event. It's probably fine the way it is because women would watch it as well.

However,
I want to see UFC-like fights between countries with each country using their respective fighting styles. Thai-kickboxing, Japan-karate, u.s.-mixed, etc. That would be awesome.
 
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