Olympics '08: U.S Loses Softball Gold Medal

[behatimiranda]

the japanese team had worked hard, so have the americans. 50 50 chance, japan performed better in the 2008 olympic games, no doubt the americans did well too. well, yukiko ueno is the world's fastest pitcher, hard to bat em'

[bartfart42]

@usernasc3974

HaHa

[bartfart42]

@usernasc3974 OOOHHH there is the standard american answer... We are better than the rest.

Now, you have a total of 2404 medals, 972 gold, 310.000.000 people =

the Netherlands (where I am from) has 308 medals, 89 gold, 16.000.000 people=

VS: 0,000003313548

NL: 0.0000055625

Who has more medals now?

Ok it was just to show a point. You can see it from different perspectives and than you always win (in your own eyes).

[NFLdude505]

@bartfart42 FUCK YOU USA HAS WON MORE GOLD THEN ANY OTHER NATION.

[alisonhss]

THE JAPANESE TEAM IS AWESOME. SUCK IT UP YOU AMERICANS. its just that way.

[CJH4LIFE14]

softball is the shit and japan just got lucky...when 2016 comes USA will whip there sorry asses all across america:)!

[DeMichaelSuperFan]

日本バンザイ！

[conda420]

the usa women are great at softball but the men Canada is better maybe the best in the world

[american1great]

@conda420 canada sucks man they dont have the players to prove it

[BostonCreamDonut]

@american1great Someone`s still but hurt about Canada beating you in 02 for gold and again in 2010 for gold, not to mention the 06 World Baseball challenge or whatever where we beat you 8-6 and then just now beat you 2-1 in baseball at the pan am games. I thought Baseball was your past time what`s going on.

[kira6lawliet]

YES! go Yukiko! You are amazing! i am happy for Japan. But i am sad for America.

[AZfan21]

Everyone know that there should of been an extra game. The U.S. should of had to of been beaten twice to win the gold since USA went undefeated all the way up to the champ. game.

[cnbr85]

Everyone knows that? I would sincerely doubt anyone outside of the US would "know that".

PS. it's "should have", not "should of"

[imtheparty888]

softball just as fast pace sport as table tennis and shut up ive been playing softball since i was 4

[imtheparty888]

i agree i think its stuiped they fucking ping pong gets to stay i was on the jennie finch website they made it offical softball is bac in the year 2016

[snerjeck]

Why? Table tennis is a much faster paced sport anyway. I think your comment is made without an extensive knowledge of both sports. In my opinion they should both be allowed to stay. What shouldn't be allowed to stay is that thing where they push the weight down the ice and try to get it to stop on a certain point by brushing the ice in front of it. Half of that game is about drinking alcohol.

[Swedenlover54]

I think that softball is the best sport ever but everyone losses every once and a while. They better put softball back in 2016!!! Its really stupid to take it out everyone loves watching it!!!!

[r0tat0]

every american loves watching it.....the world hates america.....and does not play ball and bat sports.......which means bye bye softball.

GIRLS IN BASEBALL PANTS!!!.....what the hell is the matter with you?

[ghullobuenonota]

wow get a grip who wants to watch fricken table tennis...exactly nobodyyyy softball owns

[sparticussandSUFI456]

they took it out because they don't have a softball field in London.

but thats stupid thought.

[sparticussandSUFI456]

they took it out because they don't have a softball field in London.

but thats stupid thought.

that's what i heard!

but taking it out thats freaking STUPID!

Everyone loves watching it, i watch it.

I can feel their pain, i play the sport myself but if that sport was taken away from us them whats the point?

[42sportsstar]

softball better come back in the year 2016

[reikoloveday]

God I hope it comes back in 2016. The IOC are a bunch of morons for striking both softball and baseball from the 2012 games.

[GarchompAbuser]

baseball deserves to get the boot hands down the U.S. will never win cuz they have no real representation because the olympics happen in the middle of summer, the olympics are meant to bring the best of the best from around the world, and thts not what happens in baseball(idk about softball)

[NFLdude505]

ikno why get rid of Baseball,and softball

[imtheparty888]

softball better come back in the year 2016 because thats when im getting out of high school screw all of them that took softball out you rewended a lot of kids dreams thhat been workin hard for that like me i feel like i did all that hard work for nothing

[pkrc599]

Me too. I think it's really stupid that softball gets the boot, but table tennis, curling, and for god's sake, ROWING BOATS gets to stay.

[DYLANCUMMINGSISHAWT]

omg im so mad they lost

[ndrocksteady]

jeez, what is your childhood trauma? no need to insult here, 'fatass'

[hs992326]

wow, the youtube loser Emi916 is still alive !

when are u gonna gonna kill yourself ? i so wanna see a footage of you dying, bwahhahahahahahahhahahahahahah­a

[fastpitcherrchick23]

haha.. idiottt. wowzersss. (:

[NANAHO85]

Back softboll 2016!!

[NANAHO85]

Back softball 2016!! ･･･

[Slurpzter95]

OMG! The reason they took softball out is because USA "dominated"

Pfft.

Whatever.

Retards.

Gah

[ehadel]

who cares its softball

[iLOVEjacobyellsbury4]

your so rude...how about you grow up

and your acting sexist. softball is just as good as any other sport and if you tried playing youd get your ass wooped against thoes women theyre amazing athletes who deserve respect. and your a discrace.

[TheHitMan285]

who cares???

well u OBVIOUSLY dont play...

[kaznyc1]

What exactly are you talking about? .....cheating? Did you watch the game?

How possible you to say Japanese team are

cheater.... please explain exactly how they cheated.

BTW, you sounds like racist!!!

[yousuucckkss]

what are you talking about????

can you explain to me how they cheated?

did you watch the game???

[g0tric3X92]

how exactly did they cheat?

what just because they are asian you just

assume that they cheated?!

the USA was pretty good they just

got too cokcy & lost to another

GOOD team retard. dont be racist.

[brokenwalls]

Emi916...I'm asking exactly where the cheating was in the game.

Saying "Americans were better" won't help anything...

I was cheering for American but I thought Japan did great and the pitcher, Ueno, deserved the gold.

[naiiegore]

when some team from other country is better than the USA this is their reaction

hahahahahaha not surprise

[wrongimpressionist]

Exactly.

US intentionally lost at Vietnam.

US intentionally lost at World Ball Classic.

[naiiegore]

BTW u dont sound like a racist u sound like an idiot :)

[vgmaster9]

Is this really the biggest upset in sports history?

[malativas]

There are two main reasons Japan won gold.

First, the Japanese pitcher, Ueno, got a new breaking ball, but she kept it secret. It was a special pitch prepared for the U.S. After it was thrown, American batters had no time to adjust.

Second, Japanese team studied so hard that they figured out the habit of US pitcher. The batters knew what she would throw, rise or drop.

Japanese worked harder , then they won.

[naiiegore]

asian people are very disciplinated

[NFLdude505]

whatever so USA lost this game ..we're still the best softball team of all time..and we'll be back in 2016 jus watch !!!!! GO USA

[stuartbeaton]

Well not if you lose. Great team. Great record, but sadly not the best any longer.

[imtheparty888]

ehadel how can you say softball is such a joke your the joke man!!!! its fun i bet your like some wimmpy cheerleader GO SOFTBALL

[imtheparty888]

The other team didnt cheat at all !!!! USA just sucked that day i mean how the heck can they lose they killed every body else and what last time they layed them they won 7-0 or somthing and i thought i looked up to you guys

[rareballa]

Well really I think all the pitching staff women are troumendous! I think they didn't put finch in because Cat has way more variety. While finch has only two good pitches that work for her which are her fast ball and and riseball. Her changeup is what hurts her because it is always left up waist high or even higher up to the chest. Cat has movment which i thnk is way mor valuable then speed. Look at kelsey Dunne for example from ALABAMA . Only threw high 50's lows 60s but had a good screw,curve

[brokenwalls]

Explain how Japanese cheated.

I watched the game and I didn't see any cheating there.

[ichibanb]

Cat is usually great, so I was stunned she gave up so many runs. That performance was very uncharacteristic of her.

[ilovemilk12345]

hey ehadel..

YOU'RE THE JOKE. ugh.

[ilive4softballll]

doesnt it suck that they are taking softball out of da olympics

[ehadel]

softball is sucha joke

[g0tric3X92]

i like how you think softball is a joke.

yet thousands & thousands of women

AND MEN play it every year because they love

it. so r u saying that Curling and all

those dumd sports are not a joke???

what sport do you play huh?

probably none. stop being jealous[:

just because we can do a sport only

some people can do doesn't mean u gotta hate

[TAKEMONEY9]

so why are they gettin rid of softball anyway?

[clim3]

i've heard that it's because USA is too dominant. not anymore. also because the IOC says it doesn't have enough global appeal.

[TAKEMONEY9]

yea... thats retarded... softball is more of a sport than 90% of the other things there... i dont mind baseball gettin removed since all the stars are in the MLB right now.

[thinker900]

And for a minute there I almost thought that I wasn't making a 3.4 GPA since my transfer to my four year college. Maybe, I should check it again since your the expert on judging peoples academic capabilities.

[thinker900]

Oh really, you hate my free write style. I would say that you hurt my feelings, but then I would have lied. You are not qualified to judge anyone based off of a few quick comments. To think that you are is a grave error on your part. That is to be expected from a moronic racist trash collect like yourself. I almost feel sorry for you. Nah!,just kidding.

[thinker900]

Well, pin a rose on your nose. Do you want a doggy treat for correcting one letter in the spelling of the me(d)al? Calling all racist!...you can become a genius by correcting a misspelled word and calling someone "stupid fuck." You such a moron..lol.

[thinker900]

Well, the "gooks" won the gold metal. So, be a good sportsmen and stop using racist comments. OK, ASSHOLE!

[hs992326]

bwahahhahahha

what a loser, i mean Emi916, i hope you die soon. it was a good game and both teams deserve respect

[Emi916]

Japanese cheaters!

No way the Japanese or Chinese could ever beat the USA in softball without the help of banned substances. They should be subjected to a drug test immediately.

[backhandsmash]

hahahaha

loser, maybe you should be drug tested for stupidity

[yanksjets282981]

th round robin thing sucked. japan lost so they should have been only in thee bronze medal game. jennie finch should have pitchd for us. no pitching for an intentional walk is horrible. i will be writing to th commitee.

[quilombo55]

wow, you want some cheese with your whine and sour grapes?

[8H2324]

WTF!!!

[oilcountry2006]

:)yay! US finally lost!

[Creepermatt]

damn