What does the World Baseball Classic do for different heritages and cultures of people?
This source talks about what the WBC is doing for the world in overview. For example this tournament is actually much bigger than just playing the game of baseball. It's about pride in who you are. Players in the major leagues are from the United States but have parents maybe from Italy for example so he plays for the Italian WBC team. The WBC gives players all around the world get the chance to go out and wear their country on their chest and represent their country on a big stage. For some players this tournament will be the biggest games they will ever play in. For countries like New Zealand or South America there are not many major league players but in this tournament they get to play in the tournament against the best teams and best players in the world on national television in nice stadiums.
This source goes with my thinking of this tournament is the future of international baseball. This tournament gives awesome opportunities for players to play against big time players in a once in a lifetime tournament for some players. This source brings the new idea for countries like Israel to get a chance to show how good they are and get a chance to play on tv, most likely for most of these guys will be the biggest stage they will ever play on. This source lets me answer my blog question, I've said it a few times already, it gives players from around the world a chance to play on a big time stage like major leaguers and it promotes baseball in countries that baseball isn't a big sport. This source brought this to my attention, not every country loves baseball like our country does and this tournament shows how great this sport is.
This source agrees with my last source in both promoting the WBC. The first source about this talks about the basics about the WBC and this new source talks about the heritages and cultures of these counties participating and pride of these countries in the WBC. I tend to agree with the second source about the WBC because pride for your country is huge and I didn't read about that in the first source.
In conclusion this source put the WBC over the top. It confirmed that I don't agree with baseball being in the olympics anymore. If you were to tell me this going into my argument I would have thought there was no way, I thought absolutely baseball needed to be an Olympic sport. When it comes down to it though, the Olympics isn't the place for baseball. The WBC gives a chance for the best players in the world to play in a tournament before the Major League Baseball season starts. The WBC just makes sense, it takes place it various locations over the world while the Olympics just takes place in one location. The WBC is the future of international baseball instead of the Olympics and the tournament is just going to get bigger and bigger worldwide.
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