Monday, August 30, 2004

Donovan gets mail

In a post written a few days ago, I quoted a story by Sports Illustrated columnist John Donovan, who was bemoaning the lack of American representation at the Olympics. It seems many of his readers weren't impressed.

In his replies, however, Donovan finally makes the blunt statement that needs to be made about why we won't be seeing any Major Leaguers in the Olympics:

Timing and money. Major League Baseball generates something around $4 billion in revenue, and the owners are not going to stop the money machine in the middle of the season -- and put their money makers at possible risk of injury -- for mere national pride. It's going to be hard enough to pull off a World Cup, which MLB wants to do in 2006. Stopping the season for the Olympics just won't happen.

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