A couple of months ago, Chicago was awarded the USOC’s bid to get the 2016 Olympics. However, the IOC will not select them. And the culprit will be the 43rd President of the United States of America, George Walker Bush. I say this because of the way Bush handled the World Baseball Classic. He refused to allow Cuba to participate, because of the trade embargo with Cuba, as Cuba would be making money off the WBC on U.S. soil. To ensure that they would not make any money off the WBC, Cuba said they would donate their cut to Katrina victims.
After the tournament ended, the U.S. said Cuba could not donate their cut. They didn’t even give it to MLB or donate it themselves to the relief effort. They took it for themselves. Perhaps Castro was right that the U.S. was afraid to play Cuba, as Cuba advanced further than the U.S. First of all, the regime would not be making money, the players would be. This money that players rightfully earned was taken from them and kept by the greedy U.S. government for themselves.
After this whole fiasco, will the IOC really want to give America another Olympics? I sure don’t. How do we know if they’re gonna be assholes in dealing with Cuba again? Just because world competition is on U.S. soil, our government thinks they apply the trade embargo to Cuba.
Don’t tell me it’s because the Cubans are commies. Because the Chinese are commies and we do business with them. They treat their people worse than the Cubans. It’s because of a personal vendetta with Castro. 638 miserably failed attempts to kill him, yet our vice president and Bobby Knight are weapons of ass destruction.
Also, with the CTA, Chicago does not have a good public transit system. The CTA SUCKS!! Service is terrible, full of delays, the trains are slow, the workers are assholes, and drunk bastards are always on the train.
Furthermore, the rest of the world hates America. Do you think they will want this country who’s government is full of assholes running the show?? I sure don’t.
On the flip side however, Team America has embarrassed themselves on the world stage for a while now. The NBA has turned into a bunch of thugs who have no respect for the game. They laid a dud in 2004, and again at the World Championships in 2006. If they lay a dud in the tournament of the Americas this summer, they might not even make the Olympics. See how America played at the 2006 WBC. As I said earlier, our team loaded with major leaguers lost in the 2nd round, while Cuba, a team with no major leaguers, made it to the title game, losing to Japan, a team with then only 2 major leaguers, Ichiro and Otsuka.
Due to America’s dominance in softball, it won’t be an Olympic sport in 2012. I personally agree with this, as the games are boring as hell. It should stay off the table for good. Baseball is also off, but America sucks at it, not even making the 2004 Olympics, and getting thoroughly trashed in the WBC.
Soccer will never be cut from the Olympics, so America will get plenty of chances to embarrass themselves. The men’s team has never been able to compete with the powerful European teams or Brazil. With the retirement of Mia Hamm, will the women’s team be able to continue their world domination?? That remains to be seen. If Chicago were to get the 2016 games, Team America would just embarrass themselves on the world stage in their own backyard, showing the true colors of the major sports with world tournaments: Basketball, soccer, and baseball.
I personally don’t care for Team America that much in world tournaments. Basketball, I usually root for whatever teams have Bulls on them, or I root for Team Canada when Steve Nash plays, or Team Germany when Dirk plays. Baseball, I root for Venezuela, as Big Z and the Great Johan (2 of my favorite MLB players) hail from Venezuela. If there are Cubs I like on Team America, I do root for them, but GO VENEZUELA!!
All y’all can think in your little fantasy bubble that we’ll get the 2016 games, but when the IOC shafts us, be sure to thank Bush for the miserable failure. ABAJO BUSH!!
