Baseball 2019 Discussion Thread

[dcro 10,210]

59 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

You can scrap the Netherlands from that, because it's not anywhere close to that.

 

He probably meant the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

[heywoodu 16,137]

Just now, dcro said:

 

He probably meant the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

I was waiting for your post about it

 

Still a large majority of the Kingdom of the Netherlands' people doesn't give two shits about baseball  

[Monzanator 4,824]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I was waiting for your post about it

 

Still a large majority of the Kingdom of the Netherlands' people doesn't give two shits about baseball  

 

And herein lies the problem, I checked whether anyone other than Netherlands & Italy won the baseball EC. If you don't give a damn about this sport nobody in Europe ever will and it's a dead duck for the Olympic fanbase. I guess you can fill out the stands with school children, off-duty volunteers and members of the army to make it look like that someone has actually showed up! (I mean for Games outside of USA & Japan).

[heywoodu 16,137]

Just now, Monzanator said:

 

And herein lies the problem, I checked whether anyone other than Netherlands & Italy won the baseball EC. If you don't give a damn about this sport nobody in Europe ever will and it's a dead duck for the Olympic fanbase. I guess you can fill out the stands with school children, off-duty volunteers and members of the army to make it look like that someone has actually showed up! (I mean for Games outside of USA & Japan).

Or play in small stadiums. I mean, like with any sport there's always a (small) group of people who actually like it. But a stadium for 10.000+ people, nah, that'll just look pathetic  

[Monzanator 4,824]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Or play in small stadiums. I mean, like with any sport there's always a (small) group of people who actually like it. But a stadium for 10.000+ people, nah, that'll just look pathetic  

 

It would be the Olympics, that rules out "small stadiums" by default? Small would be U17 women's football tournament but not the Olympics.

[heywoodu 16,137]

Just now, Monzanator said:

 

It would be the Olympics

Ah yeah. That rules out the Netherlands anyway  

[phelps 8,384]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

You can scrap the Netherlands from that, because it's not anywhere close to that.

 

in fact I gave another kind of interpretation for NED and ITA...

the question is about the games being well attended in case the Olympic Games were in certain Countries...

and I explained that in most cases that's a no brainer, as it happened even in the past in non-baseball related Countries like Greece or China and despite there were no superstars of the game either in those Games...

 

p.s. I'm pretty sure that should NED one day host the Olympics, Baseball (and Softball) would have very good attendance...just because it's the Olympics, no matter the local interest could be in the other 350 days of the year...

and the same is for many other Nations...

[heywoodu 16,137]

Just now, phelps said:

 

in fact I gave another kind of interpretation for NED and ITA...

the question is about the games being well attended in case the Olympic Games were in certain Countries...

and I explained that in most cases that's a no brainer, as it happened even in the past in non-baseball related Countries like Greece or China and despite there were no superstars of the game either in those Games...

 

p.s. I'm pretty sure that should NED one day host the Olympics, Baseball (and Softball) would have very good attendance...just because it's the Olympics, no matter the local interest could be in the other 350 days of the year...

and the same is for many other Nations...

Sure, if the tickets are not too expensive, probably some people will come and watch the grass grow with something happening in between every few minutes for a few seconds  

[Topicmaster1010 5,713]

2019 Little League World Series

 

Day 1 and 2: August 15 & 16

 

U.S. Bracket:

 Rhode Island 0-3 Virginia  

 Minnesota 2-1 Kentucky  

 Hawaii 5-2 Louisiana  

 Oregon 2-6 New Jersey  

 

International Bracket:

 Curacao 11-0 Australia  

 South Korea 10-3 Venezuela  

 Japan 20-0 Italy  

 Mexico 5-0 Canada  

 

Tomorrow's Schedule (Loser's are Eliminated):

 

U.S. Bracket:

 Rhode Island vs. Kentucky  

 Louisiana vs. Oregon  

 

International Bracket:

 Australia vs. Venezuela  

 Italy vs. Canada  

 

[Olympian1010 8,272]

Just now, Topicmaster1010 said:

2019 Little League World Series

 

Day 1 and 2: August 15 & 16

 

U.S. Bracket:

 Rhode Island 0-3 Virginia  

 Minnesota 2-1 Kentucky  

 Hawaii 5-2 Louisiana  

 Oregon 2-6 New Jersey  

 

International Bracket:

 Curacao 11-0 Australia  

 South Korea 10-3 Venezuela  

 Japan 20-0 Italy  

 Mexico 5-0 Canada  

 

Tomorrow's Schedule (Loser's are Eliminated):

 

U.S. Bracket:

 Rhode Island vs. Kentucky  

 Louisiana vs. Oregon  

 

International Bracket:

 Australia vs. Venezuela  

 Italy vs. Canada  

 

Ah, one of my favorite events of the year.

Honestly one of the best end of summer traditions in America. All the games live on TV, and the bring our all the production stops. Plus, something stupid almost always happens.