Olympic Baseball = Fiasco
So here's how the U.S. baseball team's game against the Netherlands ended today: With the Dutch team at bat in the ninth inning, with the bases loaded and nobody out, trailing 7-0. The skies opened up, the game was stopped and ultimately called. The players shook hands. Game over.
But wait... Netherlands officials decided to protest, claiming they had not been presented with the rain-delay and rainout rules beforehand, which, they say, could have changed the way they played the late innings, had they known the rules. The protest was denied by baseball's international federation, but there apparently is an appeals process, which the Dutch team is presently exploring.
By
Dave Sheinin
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August 14, 2008; 5:39 AM ET
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Posted by: FreeBrain | August 14, 2008 7:22 AM
Haha how would they have played the game ANY differently? What were they doing, saving up all their runs for the 9th inning? Brilliant strategy, Netherlands. I hope we play them again, and spank them again, so they can't call any cheap rules. I know what will happen after we beat them again: "Our catcher had a runny nose... redo!"
Posted by: Evan | August 14, 2008 7:37 AM
Since when does ignorance trump accountability? Never mind, I forgot for a second that I was raised in an earlier and archaic era. Accountability is out; victimhood is in. Long live IGNORANCE ! ! !
Posted by: Victimized | August 14, 2008 7:50 AM
Maybe they wanted all of their players to have chance to play in the game? ...just a thought ~
Posted by: Anonymous | August 14, 2008 8:01 AM
I can understand the dutch. They had 0 out with bases loaded. Stranger things happened in baseball
Posted by: Martin | August 14, 2008 8:01 AM
how is this a fiasco? The Dutch obviously don't know the rules of baseball, perhaps a bit too much pot smoking....once the game goes 5 1/2 innings, it is official....if the "home team" doesn't get a chance to bat in the bottom of an inning due to rain, the score reverts to the previous inning..
in other words...game over
Posted by: umpete | August 14, 2008 8:16 AM
Hilarious. Sorry Holland, this isn't soccer. You cant feign injury to get your way. Strike three your out. Although being down 7-0 in the 9th is a good strategy.
Posted by: Bolt | August 14, 2008 8:44 AM
Baseball and softball should be dropped from the Olympics.
Posted by: Jeff Lasar | August 14, 2008 8:47 AM
Nice to see the Olympic spirit is alive in this comments sections.
/sarcasm off
BTW, Bolt, calling the Netherlands Holland is like calling the US New York. Holland is a region of the Netherlands, not the whole country. I guess the US has to invade the Netherlands for you to get a geography lesson.
Ignorant American.
Posted by: Cymon Dendu | August 14, 2008 8:51 AM
I believe it is unimportant who wins. Sports like Baseball, Basketball, Football (Soccer){sorry to you American but your game uses the hands for 99.9% of the time to be called football} and Tennis should be dropped from the Olympics. Or the should only allow non-professionals and, or people under the age of 19 years old.
Posted by: Syrbastyian | August 14, 2008 9:04 AM
"Since when does ignorance trump accountability?"
Well said.
Baseball has been around for more than 100 years. You'd figure that a team looking to compete on the international stage with the team whose country INVENTED THE SPORT would have read the goddamn rulebook.
Posted by: Ryan | August 14, 2008 9:09 AM
damn right bolt is an ignorant american but isnt that the motto of the us to be ignorant to everyone else while flippin the bird at everyone?
Posted by: gwynna | August 14, 2008 9:27 AM
Yeah, that powerhouse Netherlands team probably had the US of A right where they wanted us before that thing called a rule book came into play.
Posted by: KnewYawk | August 14, 2008 9:32 AM
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I don't care... I Don't like it and I am an American, LET THEM FINISH!!!