2018 LLWS Thread (ding, ding)

These kids aren’t exploited, what’s weird as hell is grown adults giving a shit about 12 year old kids they aren’t related to playing baseball.

 

I’m sympathetic. It sounds insanely draconian to bench the guy for the entire year because of it. I’d prefer the old two-game suspension.

But getting everybody in is Job 1 for every manager. Most guys do it by the fourth inning just to avoid this situation. The reason it’s such a harsh rule is because guys will take any leeway they can on it.

 

Shoot, you pinch hit your subs whenever you have two outs and nobody on.

 

The WAGs section for Hawai’i is hot.

 

Wives and girlfriends of 12-year-olds - you sick pedo.

And even though they now go eight regionals instead for four, I know both the west and the northwest regionals are held in San Berdoo.

 

Growing up in the 1980s, I can tell you how much all of the kids I knew hated Taiwan for winning what seemed liked every year. Most of us couldnt find Taiwan on a map, but we “knew” they were cheaters. My last year in LL was when Connecticut (led by future NHL player Chris Drury) won, and we all watched that series. It was our preteen version of Super bowl III and miracle on ice. All we talked about until school got back.

 

Do you mean Chinese Taipei?

 

I'm still amazed it took Little League that long to bust Taiwan - in most leagues a non-white goes 4 for 4 and everyone wants to see his birth certificate and papers before anyone heads to the snow cone shack.

 

When they finally got nailed, it wasn’t for overage players. It was because they drew from too large a pool.

 

Of course, those of us just a little bit older than you remember Cody Webster and the boys from Kirkland, Wash., who won it all in 1982.

 

They did a 30 for 30 on that that was on Netflix.