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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Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
easy choice
This week we've had two suggestions as to how to improve the lot of Taiwan's professional sports:
1. Use public money to promote it:
KMT legislator proposes tax break for sports fans
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chang Hsien-yao (張顯耀) said yesterday that he planned to launch a proposal that would allow taxpayers to list tickets to sports events as tax deductible.
2. Clamp down on the mafia-run gambling on sport:
Illegal betting turns fans off Taiwan baseball
Chung Yi-min would go to a baseball game almost every month and watch many more on television until four or five years ago, when the 36-year-old fan started getting fed up with the nation’s most popular sport.
“If they don’t catch balls I get suspicious because these are professional players,” said Chung, who works as an event planner and has watched baseball since childhood. “Everyone will think that the game result isn’t the actual result.”
Chung now prefers televised US Major League Baseball to local games because of illegal betting, which has cost the nation’s 20-year-old league a chunk of its fan base, taking income away from the sport’s development and lowering the national team’s odds of international championships.
Not a difficult choice. Is it?
[update]
see here
1. Use public money to promote it:
KMT legislator proposes tax break for sports fans
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chang Hsien-yao (張顯耀) said yesterday that he planned to launch a proposal that would allow taxpayers to list tickets to sports events as tax deductible.
2. Clamp down on the mafia-run gambling on sport:
Illegal betting turns fans off Taiwan baseball
Chung Yi-min would go to a baseball game almost every month and watch many more on television until four or five years ago, when the 36-year-old fan started getting fed up with the nation’s most popular sport.
“If they don’t catch balls I get suspicious because these are professional players,” said Chung, who works as an event planner and has watched baseball since childhood. “Everyone will think that the game result isn’t the actual result.”
Chung now prefers televised US Major League Baseball to local games because of illegal betting, which has cost the nation’s 20-year-old league a chunk of its fan base, taking income away from the sport’s development and lowering the national team’s odds of international championships.
Not a difficult choice. Is it?
[update]
see here
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