Taiwan’s Baseball was great, and how it is now?

Do you still remember that Chinese Taipei Team won our first gold in Doha? It was such a glorious time. So many people felt happy and were immersed in the victory. However, our team didn’t do well in recent matches. People then became distrustful to our team. They doubted the team and made a mock of them. Few people still believed that Chinese Taipei would win. Yet in the past, baseball was more popular in Taiwan than nowadays. There were six teams in CPBL-Chinese Professional Baseball League. People were eager to go to court and watch the game. Every match could affect audience a lot. After games, newspaper would report it and consider it as important issue. People cared baseball and liked baseball. They enjoyed it, and even felt proud of it. Chinese Taipei Team often did well in international baseball games. Taiwanese watched games and celebrated our victories. Those times were all good memories.

However, during two years, the situation has changed. Our team turns to lose more matches. We are losing our advantage among Asia. It is not good news to hear about. Yet it is true. We could compete with the best teams before. But now we have difficulty in facing teams which were considered inferior to ours. At the same time, Japan and Korea are still making great progress. Taking the two countries for example, we can find that their government devoted to support their teams. Therefore their teams have no need to worry about money and other trivial matters. The governments have done it already. The only thing teams had to do is concentrating on matches. We are sure that there are still many good baseball players in Taiwan, but what we need is more support from government. We need discipline, investment, and outstanding couches to make our team a better and more powerful team. If we can fulfill those expectations, then we could succeed. We can enjoy the graceful victory again!