The whole baseball and softball thing is bunk man. It's like, do you actually think there are more people interested in sync. swimming or table tennis... who the hell won the gold in table tennis... come on now.... 50 meter air rifle.. give me a break.
This move was done shady, the IOC is a bunch of punk ass wannabe policals that don't know sport from a jock strap. the only thing they do OK with is the winter games, which is like 10 times sicker than the summer. Then Cuba opens there mouth and blames the MLB... Truth be told, we get punked in the olympics when we send our amatures, and ridiculed when we send our pros, even by the other countries that send their pros. Oh, and last time I checked, South America, Central America, South Korea, Japan, and a few European baseball teams were as good, if not better than the US. Look at what type of team the Dominican Rep. could field in baseball, Japan and Cuba would have sick teams too.
Now, that rant being said, I would love to see more martial in the olympics.