FishStripes: An SB Nation Community

Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Pro Quality. Fan Perspective.
Around SBN: Headlines: BC Beats BU 4-3 in 58th Beanpot Championship

Fredi Gonzalez no fan of handball

That title may not actually be true, but it was real easy to type.

Since FishStripes is doing partial Olympic coverage, this seems to fit right in.

Gonzalez said he has tried to follow the Olympics on TV. "Today I watched handball," he said, before shaking his head. "They want to get baseball out of the Olympics, but we have handball? I'm just saying . . ."

Handball is kinda of a cool sport -- I don't really understand it -- but is kinda cool to watch.

I think handball was introduced into the Olympics like sometime in the early 1900's, baseball made its debut much later.  I could look all of this up, but that isn't going to happen.  

Of course to me, baseball is a better game, but I'm biased.  From my understanding, and this could be completely wrong, since baseball is a relatively new sport to the games it is being reviewed because the nation participation rate isn't all that good.  But there is a big push being put on to keep it and softball as part of the games.  The longer the two stay in the games and if MLB and the softball federation will keep trying to expand their respective sports, more nations will eventually field teams.

Once again, I could be completely wrong.

0 recs  |  Comment 3 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Display:

baseball

Why aren’t more teams invited to compete in Baseball? DR and Venezuela are notably missing, but I’m sure Mexico, Australia and Panama could also field teams. If Netherlands is in there, they have to playing in other parts of Europe.

by brickell on Aug 13, 2008 10:10 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

The Olympics are just punishing baseball for not sending MLB players.

by RATW on Aug 14, 2008 12:16 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

That could be but....

softball sends the pros and they are reviewing them too.

by craig on Aug 14, 2008 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

Welcome to the SB Nation blog about Florida Marlins.
Start posting about the Marlins »

Join SB Nation and dive into communities focused on all your favorite teams.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recent FanPosts

39135485-59af19dbb26654095f910f34176af094_4ae8a81e-scaled_small
Predictions Group
Small
Uggla to stick around for '10
Miamidolphinslogo_small
Who are our rivals?
Slugger_small
Jim Thome
Dwork-1_small
Marlins sign Josh Johnson to 4-year extension!!!!
Small
Why is Baseball Forcing the Florida Marlins to Spend? They’re Successful.
Small
Florida Marlins All-Decade Team
Rsc_miami2_small
What we should do during the offseason......
Mukuro_small
Break down of Marlin's top 7 hitting specs
Mukuro_small
A look at the '10 bullpen

+ New FanPost All FanPosts >

SPONSORS


Managers

Drunkhomer_small craig

Gamefish_small GameFish