Climbing Tal's Hill » Ben Sheets http://climbingtalshill.com A Houston Astros Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sun, 19 May 2013 10:07:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 No Baseball = NO-lympics http://climbingtalshill.com/2012/07/28/no-baseball-no-lympics/ http://climbingtalshill.com/2012/07/28/no-baseball-no-lympics/#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:15:20 +0000 Greg Thurston http://climbingtalshill.com/?p=4271 Baseball and softball have been officially eliminated from the Olympic Games. That is one of the many reasons that I will not be watching the competition from London over the next 30 days. With the games of the 30th Olympiad taking place halfway around the world television coverage lags behind. Sports are supposed to be watched [...]

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]]> Baseball and softball have been officially eliminated from the Olympic Games. That is one of the many reasons that I will not be watching the competition from London over the next 30 days. With the games of the 30th Olympiad taking place halfway around the world television coverage lags behind. Sports are supposed to be watched live. Knowing that Michael Phelps finished out of the medals in the 400-meter Individual Medley prior to the TV broadcast makes it pretty much unwatchable. This news came as no surprise considering Phelps has probably spent the last four years eating Subway sandwiches and doing bong-hits.

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