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Be safe and enjoy your families.

You make some good points.

The injury thing is not bogus because these guys are just warming up but they are ‘playing for real’.

This is not a midseason event, it is a preseason event. It should be midseason like soccer.

I agree about the players tho. No one rooting for another team will care about some player being hurt. However, in the past teams have forbade players from participating.

Personally I don’t think the Mets’ players should go. Not unless the players and the owners can agree to do this midseason as has been proposed.

It may grow the sport if they do it right. I am surprised at the Indian players. Didn’t know they played ball there. Thought cricket was the thing. I have never heard of any Europeans playing baseball, but what do I know? I only know the boys from Queens.

As for the Olympics, it is not about competition and excellence in athletics. It is about money. I ignore the games except for the sports that the US media ignores.

Back to injuries. If a player does something stupid in the offseason and gets hurt, they risk voiding their contract. In winter ball, the team has sign off or tells them to play to work on their game. No team that I know of is saying go play in WBC. The player is doing it for their own reason which is fine. But most teams probably don’t want them to play.

The difference is that all club teams around the world give up their players during the Cup to allow them to participate.

Baseball is not doing the same. They started this thing to ‘grow’ the sport but will not support it in the same way.

You want it to be a world event every 2 years or whatever? Fine. You want it to be a friendly national rivalry? Fine. Do it during the season. Let it run for a month or so. Continue playing your games and have some teams lose games they may not have.

That ain’t gonna happen. It is a side show for them. If they are serious they should put their money where their mouths are and do it at midseason. Either suspend baseball so the standings don’t get hurt or just play on.

Either way…

The Olympics isn’t the Olympics either.

Not when you have ‘professional’ players mixing with amateur and all the sponsor money,drugs and all. It’s a sham and I don’t pay much attention to it anymore.

If they want to have a WBC they should do what ChiliGTC says above, suspend the season for a few weeks and let them have at it. This way they are all in shape and can do their thing.

Baseball of course won’t go for it because they will lose major $$. I doubt the players will too because they may not get paid during that time..

As some have suggested above. What will the reaction be if KRod goes into the WBC and blows out his arm so we lose our closer playing in something we really don’t want him to?

Do we start blaming Minaya for yet another disappointing season? What if our ace gets hurt?

The expectations of NY are enormous.

This is just stupid.