More Little League ridiculousness

Well can you answer the question then? I'm wondering too. I honestly rather watch billiards than LL baseball. (I'm 25)

 

Check back if you ever have kids.

 

Why, though, is 11- and 12-year-old baseball international event but 10-year-old softball and 14-year-old baseball and youth football are obscure and receive coverage only in weekly rags or the Lawrence paper?

Is there some special purity to watching 12-year-olds play on a small diamond with 200 foot fences? I just don't get it. At the highest levels of Little League, many of the boys have outgrown the reduced dimensions and your games are all strikeouts, wild pitches and home runs. I just don't get the fascination America has with this one youth event.

 

And obviously not employed at a weekly or small daily.

 

This is nothing.

A couple of years ago we had two area teams competing in a playoff. Team A is up 15-1. Had to forfeit because the coach fucked up and let a kid pitch twice in two days.

 

I agree 100 percent. I go out of my way to avoid it.

 

Why didn't the coach of the team which failed to put in the player explain the issue to the other team and let them score the tying runs?

 

Because the other team would probably try to avoid scoring the tying runs so they could win by forfeit.

 

Understood -- but that would be the sportsmanlike thing to do from both sides.

 

Sportsmanlike? Youth sports? Have you not been paying attention?

It's just win, baby!!!

 

There's no reason why a commitment to sportsmanship and a commitment to winning cannot coexist, even at the youth level.

 

True, but fewer and fewer coaches and parents can manage to balance the two. Just look at the thread on the Pony League kid with the shunt in his head.