The International Baseball Federation (IBAF) has published the schedule for the upcoming 21U Baseball World Cup in Taichung. From November 7 to 11 the first round will be played. Afterwards the top three of each pool advance to the Super Round Robin. The top two of this pool will play in the finals on November 16. The Netherlands, Czech Republic and Italy will represent European Baseball in the 11-team event. Japan, Chinese Taipei, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Venezuela and Nicaragua will be their opponents.
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I suppose you’re going to call the winner a “World Champion”.
Typical IBAF. No Cuban team. No USA team. No Dominican team. No Puerto Rican team. No Canadian team. But the winner will be “world” champion. B.S.
I personally know the California junior colleges were approached about sending an allstar team to this tournament. The California coaches were enthusiastic about participating but the head guy in Taiway would not return their calls or emails.
My guess would be the IBAF went to the KNBSB and the Dutch asked Taiwan to scratch the US team because the Dutch under-21s wouldn’t stand a chance against them.
The IBAF is a “world” organization run by coutries in Europe which can’t compete with legitimate baseball countries. They believe “leadership” is twisting the field to give their non-competitors a chance.
On the former article you had some point on your statements, but this time I must say that your opinion is completely wrong.
First of all, this tournament is a World Cup, and it logically makes sense that those national teams sanctioned by their national federations participate. A team like “California Junior College Allstars” isn’t required here at all, simply because this ain’t an open tournament to allow any type of teams to compete; NT’s, universities, regional allstars etc.
So, if you want to argue about no-US-participation, what you should do first is whether USA baseball admitted CJCA as their official national team or not. And if they didn’t, your first choice to blame should be USA baseball who decided not to sanction the CJCA, isn’t it? At least your guess about KNBSB stuff has no proof at all.
Additionally, does Cuba, USA, DR, PR and Canada that you pointed out have their own U21 NTs, team budgets and programmes? If you lack any of those, then you can’t send a team to a World cup. That’s a common sense especially for people who works on the field like you.
Last but not least, you sounds like there’s no “legitimate” countries in Asian territory. That Americas-centric vision is nothing but a huge disgrace to us Asians. Who supported this sport outside Americas with enthuasism for decades? Who made this sport huge at least within this pan-pacific area? You said that you have coached in Europe before, but you dosen’t seem to have any kind of respect to baseball families in those Non-Americas countries when I read your comments. That’s not a favourable behaviour if you want to work grobal.