I got you point.

The problem with money & baseball is the fact that it doesn't guarranted that the most paid team will get they hands over the trophy.

However i still believe the tournarment has been very colourfull,you got to remember that is the unique championship that give all participating nations the oportunity to gather all their big leaguers players on one team.

The MLB organized the tournament to open again the doors for the baseball to be added again in the olimpic games because it was withdraw 10 years ago according to the olimpic world commitee the "lack" of interest in the sport world wide