Comments on: No baseball in London 2012 http://www.martinstabe.com/2005/07/08/no-baseball-in-london-2012/ A UK-centric look at new media and online journalism Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:09:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: john b http://www.martinstabe.com/2005/07/08/no-baseball-in-london-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-50164 john b Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:44:37 +0000 http://martinstabe.com/blog2/?p=830#comment-50164 I thought the point about Olympic baseball was that the (amateur) Cubans humiliated the (few who remain amateur before selling out) Americans?<br><br>And no, of course we don't care about either rounders variant in the UK. I accept that it's misogynistic to a degree that we don't rate women's sports, but ultimately over here 'baseball' (rounders) and 'basketball' (netball) are both definitely for girls. Rugby, on the other hand, is a proper game. I thought the point about Olympic baseball was that the (amateur) Cubans humiliated the (few who remain amateur before selling out) Americans?

And no, of course we don't care about either rounders variant in the UK. I accept that it's misogynistic to a degree that we don't rate women's sports, but ultimately over here 'baseball' (rounders) and 'basketball' (netball) are both definitely for girls. Rugby, on the other hand, is a proper game.

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