Tuesday 14 April 2009

two more choices

last week VftH ("easy choice") reported that, to fix its baseball problems, Taiwan had the option of using taxpayers' money or clamping down on illegal gangsters.

two more options appeared in Friday's Taipei Times:

3. The Taipei City Government formed its own baseball team last week as part of government efforts to revive the sport following the national team’s embarrassing defeat to China at the World Baseball Classic last month ...

The city government had planned to select 25 players for the team, but only recruited 21 players — retired professionals, college and high school players ...

The local governments in Taipei County, Taoyuan County and Taichung City have also formed their own municipal baseball teams as part of government efforts to nurture baseball talent.

4.Tainan City prosecutors will begin to monitor professional baseball games today in a bid to prevent match fixing. Seventeen prosecutors will take turns in leading local police in monitoring the games and collecting evidence if they think there are signs of rigging ...

However, only games at the baseball stadiums in Tainan will be monitored ...

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