Olympic Baseball "Euro-centric"?

Baseball America thinks the Olympic baseball tournament is "Euro-Centric". With three European teams competing-- Italy, the Netherlands, and the hosts, Greece, who qualify automatically -- I guess this is true:

“What’s needed is for IBAF (the International Baseball Federation) to have a better understanding of how it can sell international baseball, which is very unique,” said Baseball Canada national team director Greg Hamilton, whose nation will make its first trip to an Olympic diamond. “International baseball is a tremendously worthy cause. But to sell it, it would really help to have the best teams to be in the best tournaments.

“There needs to be an environment that gives the best teams a fair opportunity to earn a spot in the Olympics. Also, the notion that Europe should have equity with the Americas and Asia in terms of the number of teams it gets in the Olympics doesn’t make sense.”

The problem is that European parity makes perfect sense for a global tournament. If Europe doesn't have parity, is is more difficult to justify having an Olympic baseball tournament at all. If baseball is percieved as a minor, regional sport, it will be much easier for the IOC to remove it from the programme altogether.