Bryce Harper veut des joueurs de la MLB aux Jeux olympiques de 2028 et il a tout à fait raison
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Par retroanduwu24
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Bryce Harper veut des joueurs de la MLB aux Jeux olympiques de 2028 et il a tout à fait raison
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Par retroanduwu24
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What is the Liberty Line?
“Obviously the WBC is great, but it’s not the Olympics. That’s no disrespect to the WBC or anything. But everybody knows when the Olympics are on, everybody is watching. Doesn’t matter what sport it is. It could be the most random sport and it has all of the fans watching it.”
I don’t really understand this argument – way more people watched the last WBC than watched Olympic Baseball in 2021 because actual MLB players were playing in it. It’s the players people care about, not whether it’s the Olympics or the WBC.
Edited to add: “NBC Universal saw record-low ratings throughout the 2020 Olympic Games, forcing them to give advertisers extra airtime to make up for the loss.
Since the Olympics’ opening ceremony on July 23, a fraction of the audience that tuned in for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games returned for the Tokyo contests and viewership remained low throughout the 17 days of competition.”
Those with the money and actual data to make the decision disagree with him.
Bryce Harper wants in on all the Olympic Village fucking he’s heard about
We need to downsize the Olympics not make it bigger. Fucking trampoline is in the Olympics
I actually really like that the WBC is NOT the Olympics and am not all that excited about baseball being part of the Olympics. I love the WBC being its own other thing and generally dislike the entire environment surrounding the Olympics. I hate to be a naysayer on it and all because I want baseball to be more popular – but the Olympics are just going to undercut all the great advances that have happened with the WBC. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, I hope so I guess…but I’d probably have rather just had the WBC be kind of like the World Cup.
This sub is full of such fanatical MLB fans, they can’t see the very clear sense in having our top talent on the top international stage, simply because it would interfere with the season.
Very strange. Funny to see people unironically comparing the WBC to the olympics like they’re anywhere near the same level though. Irony is, the olympics with MLB would be the single biggest boost for future WBCs, but this sub is too shortsighted to understand that.
Will non USA MLB players be allowed to play this time or will they all be held out for “insurance”?
He’s not right. WBC is way better than the Olympics.
The unfortunate part about baseball in the Olympics is it takes place during the middle of the MLB season. However, there *is* one factor which *might* make MLB players taking part more possible:
It takes place, typically, around/during the ASB. And since the Olympics are gonna happen in LA, it’ll be the best chance possible for managers/MLBPA to make allowances for players to participate.
That’s only 4 days, while the Olympics last 2 weeks, but it’s the best chance we’ll get for the foreseeable future to see MLB players participate. If it doesn’t happen this time, it probably never will.
I don’t see a strong likelihood that it does happen, but it’ll be interesting if somehow it does. If the NPB sends their guys, there’s no way they don’t win gold.
I understand it’s unpopular here, but I love the Olympics, always have always will. I saw Baseball in the Olympics only once in my memory and every 4 years I’m dissatisfied that it and softball are no longer apart of it. Baseball really should be in it too, it’s the only world sport that I know of that isn’t represented and that’s just a shame.
I don’t know if that means we should send college kids or what, I’ll leave that for y’all to discuss. But baseball belongs in the Olympics, you all know that it does.
Olympics has stricter eligibility requirements for representing a country. You can’t just eat a pizza and represent Italy.
No, my team cant even make it to ST without injuries.
Pretty sure all the stars are asking for this. Ohtani asked to go to the Olympics as well.