A "massive" blow to the nation?   Hardly.   The US has lost in the Olympics previously. (The Olympics have since dropped the sport.)

If you can gather anything from this loss, it is the FACT that the game is taking hold in other countries. The FACT that Latin American countries produce incredible players and the game has become very strong in Japan and Korea shows the beauty of the game. In a perverse way, I am glad the US was defeated. If we won all the whiners would complain how no one else plays the game and it is only an American sport.   

Baseball appears boring to people weaned on games like football because of the strategy involved. It is much more complicated and requires complete skill, unlike some of the other oafish sports that require little more than stamina to run around a field for 90 minutes and kick a ball.    I love soccer, but it pales in comparison to baseball.

Yes, we will surive. Our ego is intact.