Summer olympics happen during baseball season and MLB and other leagues don't accomodate so baseball in the olympics is legitimately an amateur event.

And I just looked up the members of the Australia 2004 baseball team. It seems that every single one of those guys are baseball players, not cricketers.

You can find their roster here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austra...ummer_Olympics and it seems no members of the team have any noted cricket history.

I remember in the 80s, Ian Botham giving baseball a go and crushing it, complaining that they weren't pitching fast enough.
Hitting full tosses in cricket is easier than when the ball bounces first.

The think the likes of Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers would be pretty special.

This is just aids.

A quick google search will tell you the pitching speeds are very similar. If anything they indicate baseball pitchers throw faster. They also throw from closer. Maybe he couldn't hit non fastball pitches, which are a big reason why hitting in baseball is so hard.

A quick search of my own memory tells me facing fast full tosses is easier to hit than slower balls that bounce.

And the baseball player used a total hack that strikes out more than anyone is history. Struck out more than anybody else in each season 2008-2011.

Cricket star? Who? lol

Haha. Just watched it. The cricketer is a spinner!

Anyways, to end this stupid conversation.

The sports are different. People who grow up with one sport naturally will think it's players are better or their sport is tougher, simply because they understand the challenges of that sport but not of the other.

I highly doubt any baseball player could cross over easily to cricket, and I highly doubt any cricketer could go the other way. Likely a great player in one could time become pretty good at the other, and I expect it would go both ways.

But the idea that you posted that some cricketers could just take up baseball and have any chance of medalling is assinine. Let alone making their own national teams, as even the Australian baseball team was made up of 100% baseball players, no crossovers.

India would have no chance of assembling anything resembing a respectable baseball team from their cricket base, and USA would have no chance of assembling anything resembling a cricket team from their baseball base. But I will hold to the opinion that the latter of those two is probably more likely.

Lol @ anyone playing such a different sport and having a ****ing chance. The cricketers would be dry bum raped by tinpot baseball countries and vice versa.

larbon jam would be goat baseball and cricket player at the same time if he tried

I never said a cricket team would win. It wouldn't surprise me if one got a medal though.
My main point was that cricketers playing baseball might raise US awareness for T20 and might attract some US baseball players to give T20 a go when it makes its inevitable Olympic debut.

When they started the US 7s rugby in Las Vegas a few years ago, I took a few locals I knew out to watch. From being initially sceptical, they walked away loving it.
I'm glad more people have realised what a great game it is since these games.

USA#1

lifron jimjambo needs 3, 4 days MAX of basic instruction in any sport and he is auto-GOAT. It is known.

million dollar arm pitchers tho

A million dollars hardly buys anything resembling a legit MLB arm, so yeah I'm sure they're bound to have a bunch of those guys.

Pretty sure he's referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseba...ia?wprov=sfla1 the million dollar arm project

Lol at lol i didnt say they would win but they might medal

i mean i just had to lol at the hitler youth just TEEING OFF in SLOW MO to the puny cricket bowl or w/e

Please change thread title. On a per capita basis, US was way behind UK and France in medals.

Lol France

This thread doesn't even exist without France GOAT, Cradle of the Greatest minds in history



Cradle of the greatest Stache also

Lolpercapita as a metric

france furious

I really like the perGDP measures because our lower rank really reinforces how much richer we are than all other countries

I'd go with $ invested in Olympic program per medal using total medals (and say beach volleyball counts as 2, basketball as 12 since you invest in all those people).

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