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I know….I know….It’s a sensationalist headline. but hey, it’s my website and I can anything I want to do.

Well, listen to this…

Baseball and softball were dropped Friday from the Olympic program for the 2012 London Games, making the two American-invented sports the first events cut from the Olympics in 69 years.

That’s right, the only sports dropped from the games in 69 years were both American games.

“I think they’ve made a big, big mistake,” said Tommy Lasorda, the former Dodgers manager who managed the U.S. team to the gold medal in the 2000 Sydney Games. “Baseball is played by all countries now and softball, too. I think that’s really going to hurt the Olympics. I don’t want to knock the other sports, but I think this is a big mistake. I am very disappointed.

“I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia. The parks were full at all times. How can they take away a sport like that?”

After all, “fun” is waht playing “games” is suppoed to be all about. Right?

The IOC will consider replacing them with two sports from a waiting list of five: golf, rugby, squash, karate and roller sports. That decision will be made Saturday.

Oh yeah….Squash and “roller sports” (whatever that is), Ican see how they are just trying to raise the bar…

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