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I told a Japanese girl said that Japanese baseball players come to America "to play against the best players in the world".

boy she got pissed. the Japanese are very proud of their baseball.

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That is probably what they said to Americans back when Cecil Fielder went there. lol.

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I told a Japanese girl said that Japanese baseball players come to America "to play against the best players in the world".

boy she got pissed. the Japanese are very proud of their baseball.

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Japan has pretty much given us a run for our money in the summer olympics:

#1. Cuba
3 gold, 1 silver medals (4 total)

#2. USA
1 gold, 1 bronze ( 2 total )

#3. Japan
1 silver, 2 bronze ( 3 total )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basebal...ummer_Olympics

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I told a Japanese girl said that Japanese baseball players come to America "to play against the best players in the world".

boy she got pissed. the Japanese are very proud of their baseball.

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Japan has pretty much given us a run for our money in the summer olympics:

#1. Cuba
3 gold, 1 silver medals (4 total)

#2. USA
1 gold, 1 bronze ( 2 total )

#3. Japan
1 silver, 2 bronze ( 3 total )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basebal...ummer_Olympics

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MLB players don't play in Baseball Olympic Events.

EDIT:

After some more google-searching, it appears that Baseball and Softball were removed from the Olympics. Possibly comming back, but Selig doesn't want MLB players halting mid-season for the Olympic games. We would pretty much destroy any team that played us. Dream Team, anybody?

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Thats because the olympics does real drug tests lol.

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We would pretty much destroy any team that played us. Dream Team, anybody?

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Kind of like what happened in the World Baseball Classic?

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We would pretty much destroy any team that played us. Dream Team, anybody?

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Kind of like what happened in the World Baseball Classic?

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ya 3 game series definitely determines the best team in a low variance sport like baseball.

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er guys take the baseball crap to sporting events

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My wife and I were in Paris. We are stopping for drink and crepe . She walks up and orders a coke and lemon crepe . Well , this was a big no no. The guy in the stand gives her a lecture on saying bonjour first !!!

It totally ruined his day .

I did all the ordering from that point on..