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- remotecontempt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14At least its not another damn Wii article...
- santiago1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10 ...or Stephen Colbert...
....or Borat....
....or.... - CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I care.
You lose =( - swOhio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Nothing more american than baseball..... so lets start the season in China!
- remotecontempt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yeah, ***** the Blue Jays!
- boberto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Ok for exhibition games, but games that matter? Horrible idea. Pisses off the players and season ticket holders.
- redsox32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is crap. When teams end the season on a bad note you can't wait for opening day to signal a "new birth" or clean slate for them to start. And now they will be in the middle of bum-***** China. thats ***** if this happens.
- ripismoney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6While playing a few regular season games in other countries may not be a bad idea, I think that the season openers should be played in America. After all, it is our game we're talking about -- in April, the fans deserve to see their team in the action for the first time since autumn.
- jacook11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"Right now baseball is mostly only popular in the US."
That is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. - iPood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It was stupid when they had teams starting the season in Japan, and this is stupid too. Like many have said, nobody in China cares about baseball, and this isn't going to change their opinion. I'm sure the players hate to travel across the globe to play a few games and then come right back home, it's really not worth it. Atleast opening in Japan had some sort of logic behind it, baseball is atleast popular there. This also means some peoples favorite teams "home" openers will be played at like 7 am in the U.S., but yeah, anything in the name of making baseball popular everywhere.
- crstern, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5surely no one cares, especially not the people who dugg this!
- jarlrasm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I'm in China, and digg is not cencored.
"Unearth baseball's version of Yao Ming before China hosts the 2008 Olympics in Beijing"??? How on earth are they going to find a good player for a sport that absolutely noone in China plays(as opposed to basket which is quite popular)? - GhettoCash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4baseball is also popular in the Caribbean(Curacao, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Aruba) and also Venezuela and Panama also Mexico.
- Universe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, there's already the World Baseball Classic for international fans.
http://ww2.worldbaseballclassic.com/2006/index.jsp
Let them start their own leagues. - uptown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Way to ***** the fans from this country and condemn the players to all sorts of travel related irregularities to start their season. A win in game #1 counts just as much as a win on the closing day, and we all know how close this season's races were. Keep international play for the Olympics ... The MLB season should stay in the USA.
- GhettoCash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3just because u can't play it or understand it doesn't mean it sucks.
- wil2197, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3America is not going to get the Chinese into baseball, so this is a waste of an opening series (I'm assuming it would be a series). The only ones that can bring the Chinese into baseball, quite incidentally, China itself. Although still unpopular, China has started some baseball teams in their own country, hoping to compete in I believe all the events in the 08 Olympics. But the next Yao of baseball? We're about twenty years away from that, if not longer.
- dengzhi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3japan??
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is not like it would be the first Bud Selig decision that pisses off EVERYBODY involved. Nobody likes teh fact that the All Star Game winner gets home field advatnage for hte World Series. But Selig is just as stubborn with that.
- tombomb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A much better place would be in Japan, where baseball is big!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can't locate e-mail addresses for these jokers...If someone else has them, please add a comment here.
I'll call Selig's office and tell them what I think of this lousy idea.......
The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball
Allan H. (Bud) Selig, Commissioner
245 Park Avenue, 31st Floor
New York, NY 10167
Phone: (212) 931-7800 - JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I'm against forced censorship, so if you need some info smuggled through the filter, email me at the address in my profile.
- luposcp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why not Afghanistan? Or Uganda? American sports no longer stands for anything except the Yankee dollar.
- mleino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0does china even have a league or even one decent team? stick to childrens toys china!
- mleino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0do their players work for 7 cents an hour like their children?
- iPood, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Ouch, that was uncalled for man.
- wil2197, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's not that interest has been lost, but rather...
A) Baseball's biggest draw in the postseason is the Yankees, but they always get knocked out early. I bet Bud always cries when the Yankees are knocked out before the World Series.
B) The current playoff format rewards mediocrity. In a four division format the Tigers and Cardinals wouldn't be worthy of licking the dirt off a baseball in October, but in the current one they meet in the World Series. And they expect good TV ratings? Kinda cheapens the title if you ask me. - Joel32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Wil-I agree w/both those comments that you made, but I think baseball has a serious problem w/the Yankees being their marquee team. Obviously, they will always have a huge fan base, but how many times can they schedule a yankees v. sox game? 19 times a year is a little much and after a while it loses it's luster. This past year I felt like I was watching the same two teams play 3 nights a week.
I know I'm in the minority, but I was excited to watch the Cardinals and the Tigers this year, just wish the Tigers had a little more left in them. - Joel32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Play in China during the winter like they are now, on a barnstorming tour. Do we think the Premier League would play their opener in America? (sorry if that's a lame reference I can't stand soccer but it's all I could think of). I know America has lost a lot of interest in our pastime, but some of US really love the game.
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Exactly!
- pgsoccer99, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1They should work on the making the game more popular here first. With the low ratings once again for the playoffs and world series, baseball is falling way behind football, and *gasp* even NASCAR as America's sport.
- StickyFumblings, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I'm in China as well and it works fine. Nobody here even knows how to play baseball. They just know that Americans and Japanese people like it. I don't even know where the nearest baseball field is located. MLB thinks they can come to China and make money like it's Japan or Taiwan. China is a whole different ball game...no pun intended.
- pkkid, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I think this is a very cool thing. Right now baseball is mostly only popular in the US. This will broaden the horizons.. and what's a bigger market than China, and better timing than when the Olympics is the biggest thing to hit Beijing?
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2In soviet china, baseball watch you!
... anybody know if Digg is blocked in china? - dengzhi, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1baseball sux, get over it.
- Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -20/+3....and nobody cares.
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