Johnny Eierman Source 2

USA Baseball in the Olympic Games  http://web.usabaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080618&content_id=33879 June 3, 2008 Google March 3, 2015

       The question I am researching in this article is the history of the United States baseball team in the summer Olympic games. I want to get a background to why the sport has been eliminated from the olympics. For example, if one team just dominated every year and there was no competition.
       Some information I gathered was that the United States won two Gold medals, a silver medal, and a bronze medal in the Olympic games. Baseball wasn't an "official" sport in the Olympic games till 1992. The last year of baseball being in the summer games was in 2008 in Beijing, China. The two years the Gold medal was brought home by the U.S. was in 1988 in South Korea and again in 2000 at the Sydney, Australia games. There was only one year since 1984 that the United States did not at least get third place in the games.
      Going into this second journal I would have guessed the United States would have won the Gold medal every year no questions asked, but that's not the case. That is the main reason I figured baseball got dropped from the games, because one team dominated every year and it wasn't good competition.
      This source was mainly just facts that I needed to know about the U.S. baseball program and the olympics. My view, being from the United States and baseball being invented in the United States will be biased towards the United States but i needed actual cold hard facts. My first two sources don't really argue against each other, they are based on two different topics under the overall subject. The first source argued against baseball being in the Olympics, while the second source gave some background information necessary for the paper.
      Now my question going into my Journal 3 will be what is the reason baseball isn't in the Olympics? Is baseball not popular enough? Is it because Major League Baseball happens during the summer and there won't be enough attention? Is it because Major League players don't play in the Olympics? I would also like to find an article arguing for baseball to be in the Olympics. I know there will be good arguments out there since there are sports in the Olympics that are not very popular at all and quite frankly ridiculous sports. Right now in my research I believe belongs in the Olympics. Baseball is becoming more and more popular worldwide and it deserves to get some recognition in the games.