Warner Robins wins LLWS on walk-off homer

Congrats to the kids from Warner-Robins for winning the LLWS title just now. While Fen and Abbott spend all of their time bitching about "important" things, it's nice to see 12-year olds kids doing what they enjoy and having fun in Williamsport. Great game to watch.

 

It's all downhill from here for that kid.

(Too pessimisstic? Too early?)

 

I'm probably in the minority here, but I wish they didn't fix it so that there has to be a U.S. team and an foreign team in the final. Why not just arbitrarily divide the teams into two pools and if two foreign teams teams make to the final, fine? If two U.S. teams make it to the final, fine.

It is, of course, better than it used to be when foreign teams weren't even allowed. Because of TV ratings, they probably never will allow a setup that doesn't guarantee a U.S. team in the final.

 

Was the shot at other posters really necessary here?

And congratulations to the kids from Georgia. Saw the kid who hit it give the Japanese pitcher a hug and thought that was a nice gesture.

 

No way. Those days ruled. U-S-A!!! U-S-A!!!!

 

ESPN's K-Zone graphic or whatever they call it now to determine whether pre-adolescent boys are painting the corners makes me a little ... squeamish.

 

not as squeamish as the ESPN-phrase "walk-off homer"

 

It was a terrific game.

Mercifully I watched it at my local without the sound.

The starting pitcher for Georgia couldn't find the plate from the get-go but he managed to get out of tight spots the whole game.

The ESPN coverage is fucking awful but I still love the tournament.

Congrats to Warner Robbins and even thought they were eliminated, to the Canuckistan team from White Rock, BC.

 

The Curacao boys played their balls off too.

 

Yeah, what I saw was a game-ending home run.