A cricket bat isn't much of a "toddler bat" when you wrap it around the head of a burglar who breaks into your house at night.
As many readers rightly pointed out on the Daily Mail website, the victory was fixed.
The Yanks love their soppy, romanticised, tear-jerking moments so they thought it would be cool to ensure that Boston win the World Series in the aftermath of the bombings.
Blackleaf must be angry that there have been more baseball events in the Summer Olympics than cricket.
Not really.
The Summer Olympics are usually seen as the pinnacle of their respective sports, but for cricket that simply wouldn't be the case.
Most cricket fans the world over see the Cricket World Cup as the pinnacle of the sport, except if you are an Englishman and an Australian, in which case you'll probably see the Ashes as the pinnacle of cricket.
The passion that crickets fans show for their teams in competitions such as the World Cup, the Ashes and the Indian Premier League just wouldn't exist in an Olympics cricket tournament. Fans will just see it as a bit of a glorified, but still pointless, series of friendly matches whilst they wait for the cricket season to start again.
It's for the reasons above why football shouldn't be in the Olympics.
Only if you ignore the Football World Cup win; the Rugby Union World Cup Win; the three Rugby League World Cup wins; the fact that we've won the Ashes 31 times; and the fact that we did better at the London Olympics than both Canada (in total number of golds won and per capita number of golds won) and the USA (in terms of per capita number of golds won).
On the gold medals per capita table at London 2012, Great Britain finished 10th, with 0.46 golds per million people.
The USA finished a lowly 28th, with just 0.15 golds per million people.
Canada did even worse. It finished way down in 46th, with just 0.03 golds per million people.