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Originally Posted by LongLostSoCal
Softball isn't a global sport it's a niche sport. It required building venues for the Olympics that aren't used much since. Was a good decision to get rid of it.
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How do you classify a sport which is played on every inhabited continent other than global? And the thought of venues becoming useless is absurd.
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As far as "throwing" the final game is a dumb notion.
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Ya think!
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Girls fastpitch won't be affected by this at all, the girls will still go for their Title IX scholarships and move along into their careers like 99.9 percent of them do. The only casualty stateside might be the women's pro league, which is a casualty 24/7 anyway.
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Unless it is returned to Olympic status, it will affect youth softball. What goes up, must come down. Youth softball boomed after the game was added to the Olympic line up. It is only natural that the further we become removed from the Olympics, participation will decline. Unfortunately, this isn't like baseball of old where a majority of boys were expected to select some sort of sport in which to participate and the obvious summer sport was baseball.
I believe softball will retain some of the numbers in the youth game. They will go down, but not to the pre-Olympic level.
Actually, it may strengthen the NPF which needs all the help it can get.