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U.S. LLWS runner-up: Jackie Robinson West cheated, should lose title

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by LongTimeListener, Feb 9, 2015.

  1. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    If God didn't want them to have sex with little boys he's wouldn't have made themso damn cute. #creationism
     
  2. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Yep. Don't mess with the boundaries. Remember, the boundaries -- not the 15-year-olds -- are what eventually got Taiwan.
     
  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    And, for the record, this wasn't some minor redrawing of the boundaries. These kids weren't even from the city. Or any collar communities. Lansing and Lynwwood are well into suburbia.
     
  6. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Sounds like their own arrogance did them in, but doesn't it always:

    Jackie Robinson West Broke Residency Rules, Suburban League Claims - Morgan Park - DNAinfo.com Chicago


    All it took was a simple Internet search to find that a congresswoman, a suburban mayor, an elite traveling baseball league and Sports Illustratedposted details about the players' suburban roots.

    Even before the team won the title, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly took to Twitter to cheer on Jackie Robinson West players who live and attend school in suburban towns within her district.

    The congresswoman boasted on Twitter that two members of the team were students at McKinley Junior High School in South Holland and another was from Dolton.

    South Holland village officials congratulated the two as “alumni” in the village newsletter that’s mailed to residents and available online.

    Sports Illustrated reported in its popular feature “Faces in the Crowd” that one player attended a school in suburban Homewood.

    On the village of Lansing’s official Facebook page, the south suburb laid claim to one player as a student at the local Memorial Junior High.
     
  7. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    In the meantime, the kids from Las Vegas have offered to drive out to the airport and pick up the Championship trophy.
     
  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Chicago alderman says that it is wrong to strip away the title on a "technicality," and says that "kids like these weren't allowed to play on other teams":

    Chicago Tribune

    I suspect officials in the Lansing and Lynwood, predominantly black suburbs nowadays, might quibble with the idea that they turned away elite talent.
     
  9. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Latest DNAInfo story noted that one of the leagues where a player was stolen from, Evergreen Park, lost 43-2 to JRW in districts. Four innings.
     
  10. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    They got what was coming to them, having not allowed him to play on that team.
     
  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Doesn't take much deductive wizardry to figure out where the whistle was blown in that one.
     
  12. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    I thought it was fishy when I read Brian Williams' Tweets congratulating the two JRW kids who lived in his house.
     
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