Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Olympics Musings
Well, Canada got their over-achieving asses kicked into fourth place by the Japanese baseball team yesterday. A medal in baseball would have been awesome. I love how there are about a million swimming events so a country like australia cleans up in the medals while if you are a country that's good at baseball, and send a whole team of guys to the olympics and they win gold after playing a whole tournament it amounts to just one little medal in the standings, while they have different swimming medals for various lengths of pool, types of stroke, etc. Imagine there was separate medals for 4-inning baseball, 7-inning baseball, 9-inning baseball, home-run derby, fastest pitch, lowest ERA.. that would even it out some.
The same thing happens to Canada in the winter olympics. All the effort and resources that went into the gold medal hockey team amounted to one little tick in the medal standings, while Norway's cross-country skiiers alone sent their medal tally beyond ours.
Makes lots of sense.
-Bonus
: 8:18 p.m., August 27, 2004
