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Originally Posted by Dagrims
This decision is much more harmful to softball than for baseball, particularly from the USA's perspective. You rarely hear or read about a baseball player's stated goal being to make the Olympic team, but that truly is the pinnacle for softball players. That's really the one way that they can achieve fame (and in the rare case, endorsement deals).
But who cares about softball, right?
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Good point. It is similar, from an athletic profession, to dropping wrestling, gymnastics or ice skating. There is no where to go BUT the olympics. Without the olympics, the is no life after career - no cereal boxes, WWE contracts or Disney on ice. That's where these athletes make their living.
Tho' softball has never been as popular as any of those, the olympics were still the ONE GOAL that a softball player competed for. The occational Letterman appearance or Regis not withstanding.