6 1663 Anonymous drrubb^1009 Re: Smoltz plans to skip the WBC [Reply to #1663] 1/11/06, 6:09am I believe the reason a lot of these major league stars skip these kind of things is because the major league season is already long enough. Between Spring training, the regular season, & the playoffs, any given player could end up playing near 200 baseball games from early March to early October. There is already a great workload on them. [drrubb from Panama City Beach/Florida] Replies: 1671