There’s not a baseball fan, player, or executive on earth who is sitting around conspiring to steal the title “World Champions” by not havign a World Cup. “Baseball” has not “Decided” anything.
If you want a baseball World Cup, why don’t you organize one? It’s not the job of the major leagues to organize an amateur tournament. The British pro soccer leagues don’t run the soccer World Cup; it’s run by an independent organization, FIFA.
The Major League champion, simply put, has nobody to play, and couldn’t have anyone to play. There aren’t any other equivalent leagues, and they can’t play national teams because their teams aren’t nationally based and would have to be broken up to provide the players for the national teams. You can’t easily break up the baseball season, since teams play every day, and baseball isn’t much fun in the winter. The solution is exactly what currently exists - one major league, not based on nation of origin. The very best players play a long season, which reduces flukes, and they win a championship. Sounds good to me.
As to Myrr21’s comments:
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Lacrosse? Yeah, okay. Remind me when the World Cup of Lacrosse comes up again so I can get some extra sleep. Oh, and incidentally, the NFL champions are frequently referred to as “World Champions,” which of course they are, unless you really want to watch them embarass the CFL champs.
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Again, hockey has an international competition. Baseball does not because there’s no demand for one. Nobody’s interested in watching it or participating in it, and I personally am glad that pros don’t play in the Olympics, since that gives someone else a chance to win something. As Mark McGwire pointed out years ago, pro ballplayers already have a championship they can win; they don’t need to take away someone else’s.
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Having a separate World Cup of Baseball would be a complete waste of time. It would involve THE SAME DAMNED PLAYERS, just put into different teams and having new uniforms slapped on them. Having Pedro Martinez remove his Red Sox jersey for a Dominican Republic jersey strikes me as being irrelevant. Why not have one championship? What’s so important about having national teams? If anything, there’s too much of that. The Olympics are far too nationalistic, and I’d rather pro baseball avoid that.
The soccer World Cup is fun, but fans want to see it. There is a demand for it. No baseball fan wants the major league season interfered with by a World Cup of Baseball.