LLWS

[whippoorwill]

I hope some of you are watching. I know I start this thread every year, but it's near and dear to my heart.

Even if your boys are long past the age of Little League it is a joy to see, and Williamsport is such a great town and makes this a really super event every year.



Enjoy!

[dgwphotography]

I'm sure it's an amazing atmosphere- I've covered some of the games here in the Northeast Regional, and I can only think that it's even more fun there.

[whippoorwill]

It's terrific! The unfortunate accident of the young man falling out of his bunk bed last year aside, the players' housing sounds like a dream vacation 🙂



All sorts of exclusive little stories in local papers, fun side trips for the players; they are really treated like the special athletes they are but yet still as kids.



There's a story in our paper about one boy who is actually a refugee from Kyiv playing for Chech Rep (sp?) Amazing!



The whole area goes nuts!



The LL Museum is a really wonderful visit too.

[whippoorwill]

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[Frayed Knot]

I'm sure it's a great experience for the kids and for family and locals in those towns striving for, and maybe even getting to, Williamsburg.

Less thrilled with the amount of TV which has gone from title game only years back to now saturation coverage designed mostly to provide

ESPN programming hours which they use to give their on-air talent a last vacation before their full-on football blitz gets under way.

It's treated as innocent fun but I question the benefit of showing the failures, which inevitably come with the successes, of children on

national TV while also ranking them with radar gun readings and other such stuff. The fewer adults that get involved the kids' sports the

better IMO and the LLWS now has a whole lotta adults involved for reasons that go beyond children's games.



So while I hope everyone involved has a blast, I don't watch and have no intention of starting.

[MFS62]

I just saw that there will be a Little Leaguer Home Run Derby. I didn't bother to read beyond the headline.

This reeks of the ESPN influence that FK mentioned.



Later

[whippoorwill]

Frayed Knot wrote: I'm sure it's a great experience for the kids and for family and locals in those towns striving for, and maybe even getting to, Williamsburg. Less thrilled with the amount of TV which has gone from title game only years back to now saturation coverage designed mostly to provide ESPN programming hours which they use to give their on-air talent a last vacation before their full-on football blitz gets under way. It's treated as innocent fun but I question the benefit of showing the failures, which inevitably come with the successes, of children on national TV while also ranking them with radar gun readings and other such stuff. The fewer adults that get involved the kids' sports the better IMO and the LLWS now has a whole lotta adults involved for reasons that go beyond children's games. So while I hope everyone involved has a blast, I don't watch and have no intention of starting.

That's WilliamsPORT. Get your sweet shit straight.



How would you have liked a radar reading on your 12 year old throws?

And…what a super way of knowing what all teams attended before the inevitable China/USA matchup



Some of these kids will never see the likes of this again. Or maybe with your local support.., oh never mind



It's magic

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[whippoorwill]

On the other hand there are 14 year old diseased looking ho's keeping talented but bone headed MLB players from ever playing again, but that's HISSSSS fault….

[whippoorwill]

Same generation; different outlooks

[Frayed Knot]

That's WilliamsPORT. Get your sweet shit straight. -- Brain fart



How would you have liked a radar reading on your 12 year old throws? -- Learn them myself? Sure. Have them broadcast to a nation with the

inevitable result of having kids trying to ramp it up as hard as they can at the expense of damage to still growing bodies? Hard pass



And…what a super way of knowing what all teams attended before the inevitable China/USA matchup -- I have no idea what this means



Some of these kids will never see the likes of this again. -- I said I think it's terrific for the kids involved. Better still if they keep as many unaffiliated adults at arm's length or further



Or maybe with your local support.., oh never mind -- I'm making a clear distinction between local support and using the games for a form of summer replacement TV programming

[ashie62]

Do they play 6 or 9 innings now?



They have replay

[Edgy MD]

US West representatives El Segundo, CA win the whole enchilada over Caribbean champs Willemstad, Curaçao!



They pulled it off the cool way!

And yes, that kid is 6'1".

[whippoorwill]

A kid from curaçao had just hit a grand slam to tie it up!