World Baseball Classic?

I know it has been horribly talked about alot lately, but What's with the World Baseball Classic? I think it's more like an event than it is a classic because after this concludes and all the major leaguers return to their respective teams, something will happen to all of those pitchers and fielders or hitters with star power. It's a travesty...and who came up with this bad idea? Non other than Bud Selig, the innovator of baseball controversy in Minnesota and Montreal when he said both of those teams could be contracted, meaning they wouldn't exist. Well, he got one team right, but they exist in another baseball city..the Washington Nationals.
I think the worst decision baseball made was voting Bud Selig to be commissioner. He's veering on worse than NHL commissioner Gary Bettmann. Marketing in both of these sports just reached the basic point of downhill. Neither man says or does the right thing to guarantee money-making or growth of the sport in the small market areas. I mean look at Pittsburgh. They are basically a small market in everything, except for the NFL and steelmaking. The Pirates can't keep a good team at all, and the Penguins are on the verge of bankruptcy if they don't watch out. I think that may have something to do with why Mario Lemieux retired earlier this season. I mean he even owns a part of the team...I don't know which part, but he might want to trade up for something else within the ownership group. Even the poor Kansas City Royals, who want to compete in the AL Central, can't because they don't have the money, even with revenue-sharing, to field a solid team that doesn't look like it needs a couple of more years of playing in places like Omaha and other minor league towns. I mean even my hometown of Rockford, IL had an affiliation with the Royals. I think the only players from those Rockford teams you made the majors were Mike Sweeney and Johnny Damon, who isn't even with the team anymore, and he has a world series ring to show off for getting out of Kansas City. Now they have prospect Zach Grienke who has left the team for personal reasons...I shouldn't dog on him, but I wonder if any part of that is because he was dropped from the US roster in the WBC? I have to be careful with him though because I also have him on my fantasy roster this season, I hope he pans out on a staff that bodes Mark Prior, Mark Buehrle, and Brad Radke along with John Lieber and Ryan Dempster.
We'll see what comes of this World Baseball Classic, but I think it's another in a long line of bad publicity moves by a professional sports association who has no idea how to market to kids playing the game and having a dream of making it big in the pros. I mean pretty soon, we'll be going to games and instead of scorecards, we'll be buying pronunciation guides cause we won't be able to say many of the foreign names on the rosters.
Ugh, this is going to be an interesting Spring Training when even the radio listener will go "Who is this guy playing second base?" Get the WBC over after like a week of bad play and low ratings cause you'll have score reports and highlights set for some areas, like NBC had with the Olympics, so no one will watch.