WTH! No more Baseball or Softball at 2008 Games?

[marzetta7]

What in the hell is going on? No Baseball or Softball at the Summer Olympics? I can't freakin believe it! Granted I gues this happened a while back (2005), but I had no clue until I heard the announcement in the 2008 Games...

Secret ballot eliminates baseball, softball

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=2103234

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/09/sp...09olympic.html

The two sports were kicked out of the Olympics, unwanted by international sports officials who felt they were too American for the world sports stage.

The decision, made during a secret vote in Singapore, is effective for the 2012 London Games, meaning the two sports will have a final fling at the 2008 Beijing Olympics...

American pitcher Lisa Fernandez, a three-time gold medalist, blamed the decision on IOC president Jacques Rogge.

"Rogge has basically conspired against the sports to get them removed. We had done our job as a sport world wide to show we belong," she said. "I feel one person, the president of the IOC, a person from Europe, has taken it upon himself to ruin the lives of millions, actually billions of women..."

I just think the logic is ridiculous. If the sport was too American, then what about Ice Hockey for the winter olympics...is that too Canadian...or European and therefore should be thrown out? Or how about Curling? Too Scottish? Cricket? Too British?

I just can't believe it...hope they get these two sports reinstated.