Why does an American title not matter like the uk rainbow belt or Euro belt?

[El Kabong]

Really? Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks and Jackie Robinson weren't among those "best baseball players in the world?" Before the color barrier was broken I think it's common knowledge that some of those "best" were not even in the Majors. Pretty sure that's his point.

It's parsing a statement to the point of being ridiculous. Americans are THE BEST at baseball. The last time baseball was an Olympic sport who won gold? USA. They have the WBC but that's not a competition that's respected all that much. ALSO my point was the World Series winners of recent history have players from all nations playing for them much like the Premier League in soccer and the MLB is THE BEST baseball league in the world hands down....you don't see players from the MLB jumping ship to play in Japan for better pay and better teams, they play in Japan when they can no longer hack it in the MLB.

[TitoFan]

Really? Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks and Jackie Robinson weren't among those "best baseball players in the world?" Before the color barrier was broken I think it's common knowledge that some of those "best" were not even in the Majors. Pretty sure that's his point.

It's parsing a statement to the point of being ridiculous. Americans are THE BEST at baseball. The last time baseball was an Olympic sport who won gold? USA. They have the WBC but that's not a competition that's respected all that much. ALSO my point was the World Series winners of recent history have players from all nations playing for them much like the Premier League in soccer and the MLB is THE BEST baseball league in the world hands down....you don't see players from the MLB jumping ship to play in Japan for better pay and better teams, they play in Japan when they can no longer hack it in the MLB.

You were doing fine until then. Not "respected all that much"? Says who?
No offense, Lyle. But Americans have a habit of losing interest in sports they don't completely dominate.
The WBC has only been in existence a few years, and should've been in existence long ago.
But it's quickly gaining worldwide acclaim, and has the international flavor the World Cup does.

It's ok to be proud of your baseball. But the Caribbean more than holds its own when it comes to great players (P.R., D.R. Cuba, Venezuela).