Left Coast Sports Babe

After winning eight gold medals, Michael Phelps received a call from George W. Bush. 

But after winning a silver medal, despite having a score that tied for first, Nastia Lukin got a call too, from Al Gore.

One reason that baseball may be dropped as an Olympic sport is that the best athletes in the sport don’t play because it is during the regular Major League season.

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Two solutions?

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Play baseball in the winter Olympics?  Makes as much sense as playing basketball during the summer.  And there are domed stadiums.  (Heck, the Vancouver Olympics could borrow Safeco field.) 

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Or do a modified draft.  Each team can protect 10 players, each team also has to contribute one player for a few weeks to a month.    For an incentive, the league whose players perform best could get say, home field advantage in the World Series?   (Not that Major League Bbaseball would ever allow their “Fall Classic”  to be influenced by what are basically exhibition games..)