Why didnt americans give the World Baseball Classic a Chance?

Some may feel that the World baseball classic is pointless. A lot of Americans didn’t even know when an where it was going on. To the average sports fan the World baseball classic isn’t a point of interest. Sports fans tend to be focused on basketball during the months of February and March; with the NBA season gearing up towards playoffs and the NCAA March madness drama. With that being said let me give you a rundown of what most you guys didn’t know about this baseball event if anything at all. The World Baseball Classic known as the “WBC” is an international baseball tournament. The event is sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation. It was originally created by Major League Baseball the Major League Baseball Players Association, and other professional baseball leagues and their players associations around the world. The event was first held in 2006 and its second edition was this month both held here in the United States. So now that we got the general information out of the way do most american care yet probably not. However the World baseball classic had several teams from every major continent, and the games strentched from Florida to Califonia. While americans may not care other countries do.
Baseball is known as the United States national passed time. However other countries belief that baseball is their sport and they’re the best at it. Coutries like the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezula, China, South Korea, Netherland, and two time champion Japan. For these countries the world baseball classic is just as competitive and meaningful as the Olympics. Players take the game seriously. ESPN even reported that the country of the Dominican Republic was ashamed of its performance in this years classic. The Cuba vs Venezula game is a known rivalry between the two countries, and anytime two Asian teams meet it’s a battle for bragging rights. “Other countries take the World baseball classic seriously, and it seems like the United States don’t care as much.” Said Richard Thistle a California resident.
When one looks at major league baseball in the United States maybe its not hard to see why americans have little interest in the classic. The major league is filled with players from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Japan, China ect. Most of the all star arent even from the United States. Alex Rodriguez, David Ortiz, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Ichiro Suzuki are all from other countries just to name a few. “I think Americans know that were not as good as other countries in baseball.” Said Omar Bethea. Many Americans hold that same theory thinking that Americans don’t care about the world baseball classic because they know the American team isn’t going to win based off the numbers of foreigners playing in the major league baseball in America. It’s sad but its most likely true, Americans are just afraid to say it.
The World baseball classic is a great sporting event that springs several countries together to achieve a common goal, which is to be called the best baseball team in the world. Yes American we can call baseball are national past time but we are no longer the best at it. Perhaps Japan baseball player told ESPN the truth when he said, “I believe that we were the two best teams in the world (Japan and Korea) Asia is best, world best in baseball, and Korea and Japan were able to fight until the end. It was a great glory for all of us." Yes other countries do care, Americans we should care about the World baseball classic to even if we aren’t the worlds best at it. Hey at least we have basketball.