Fehr on '09 World BB Classic & HGH testing

[Laura]

Does anyone remember what Selig's original proposal was for the Baseball Classic Schedule? Was it every 3 years?

 

I enjoyed the classic more than I thought I would, but the scheduling is such a problem.

 

Philadelphia Daily News[/url]"]

Players association head Donald Fehr thinks March is the best time for the 2009 World Baseball Classic.

 

Following the first tournament, in March last year, the union and management said it would wait before setting the schedule for the second edition. ... Fehr sounded confident the tournament will return in 2009.

 

Fehr said the union would consider a reliable test for human growth hormone once one is generally accepted by the medical community. HGH is banned under baseball's drug policy.

[CubColtPacer]

Does anyone remember what Selig's original proposal was for the Baseball Classic Schedule? Was it every 3 years?

 

I enjoyed the classic more than I thought I would, but the scheduling is such a problem.

 

Philadelphia Daily News[/url]"]

Players association head Donald Fehr thinks March is the best time for the 2009 World Baseball Classic.

 

Following the first tournament, in March last year, the union and management said it would wait before setting the schedule for the second edition. ... Fehr sounded confident the tournament will return in 2009.

 

Fehr said the union would consider a reliable test for human growth hormone once one is generally accepted by the medical community. HGH is banned under baseball's drug policy.

 

I think the original schedule was for it to be every 2 years, but they probably have at least pushed this one back a year to consider fully how the first one went and how to make it better.

[goonys evil twin]

I think the original schedule was for it to be every 2 years, but they probably have at least pushed this one back a year to consider fully how the first one went and how to make it better.

 

I thought they wanted it to be every 4 years in the future, but would push the next one up to the third year (2009) to keep it from butting up against the World Cup of Futbol and Olympic years.

 

2013, 2017, 2021.

[CubColtPacer]

I think the original schedule was for it to be every 2 years, but they probably have at least pushed this one back a year to consider fully how the first one went and how to make it better.

 

I thought they wanted it to be every 4 years in the future, but would push the next one up to the third year (2009) to keep it from butting up against the World Cup of Futbol and Olympic years.

 

2013, 2017, 2021.

 

It seems you are right-I thought they had originally said 2 (and I can't find anything from when they originally announced it as far as future schedule) but they definitely by the time the first tournament happened had decided on 200 9 and then every 4 years after that.