London 2012

Well, where to start?

Firstly I would like to thank the Olympic committee for giving London the Olympics and aiding our mayor in his plot to remove all the riff raff from this great city by giving him to impetus to remove many people from their homes with enough money to enable them to not move anywhere else in London, not that it matters as many of the local businesses are being 'relocated' (or is that re-moved?) so they likely wouldn't have the jobs to keep them living their anyway. Hooray for escalating property prices....or something like that.

Anyway, The Olympic Games are on their way to London and one saving grace will be the increased exposure of baseball which has the potential to lift a growing marginal sport into a more prominent position in the UK subconscience. At least thats what we in the British baseballing community thought.

The IOC have decided to pull baseball and softball from the Olympic schedule for 2012 which pisses me off (it might upset the BBF too but they won't say anything to anyone in a way that we'll hear it). It will also piss off the Cubans and you can be sure that Jose Ramon Fernandez (the president of the Cuban Olympic Committee) will be most vociferous in any attempt to reinstate baseball by 2016 but even that won't help the British.