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Little League World Series....

The single greatest sporting event started this weekend. ESPN/ABC has great coverage of it if you have any desire to see it.

Former NFL QB Neil Lomax has a kid who pitches for the team from Oregon and the kid pitched a great game.

There is a team from the Netherlands in the tournament this year. I think it's great. Good to see baseball starting to catch on over their in Europe.

If you folks ever get a chance to go to Williamsport during the Series, do it. It is great baseball and well worth the time to do it.

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Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute (Post 113942)

I watch it religiously, ESPN/ABC do a great job of covering the game, however i wouldnt have Erin Andrews interview 12 and 13 year olds, she seems to fluster a few of them :)

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Originally Posted by cougjunkie (Post 113946)

I watch it religiously, ESPN/ABC do a great job of covering the game, however i wouldnt have Erin Andrews interview 12 and 13 year olds, she seems to fluster a few of them :)

Well, if the kids have gone through puberty by now, Erin would accelerate it.

That Oregon/Mass game was a great one, wasn't it?

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Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute (Post 113952)

Well, if the kids have gone through puberty by now, Erin would accelerate it.

That Oregon/Mass game was a great one, wasn't it?

Yeah it was, i think a lot of people when they actually sit down and watch the games for the first time are surprised at the level of play. Every year there are a few kids that eventually get drafted.

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Originally Posted by cougjunkie (Post 113953)

Yep, the talent level is terrific. There's definitely a reason their teams made it to Williamsport.

Barry Larkin is the only ball player I've heard of that won both a Little League World Series and an MLB World Series.

my Taiwan lost to Chávez's kids.

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Originally Posted by ChinoCoug (Post 113996)

my Taiwan lost to Chávez's kids.

Taiwan, along New York's Danny Almonte are the few scars on the otherwise flawless Little League World Series surface. I don't blame the kids, but I do blame the adults that allowed it to happen.

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Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute (Post 114022)

Taiwan, along New York's Danny Almonte are the few scars on the otherwise flawless Little League World Series surface. I don't blame the kids, but I do blame the adults that allowed it to happen.

why Taiwan? the Philippines was the last Far East rep to cheat.

http://www.rauzulusstreet.com/featur...rldseries.html

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Originally Posted by ChinoCoug (Post 114033)

why Taiwan? the Philippines was the last Far East rep to cheat.

http://www.rauzulusstreet.com/featur...rldseries.html

I forgot about the Philippines.

In the 80's Taiwan won three straight championships and it turned out that they had players that were too old and also had players that didn't live within the boundaries of those Taiwanese teams. Taiwan lost it's little league charter from 1992 until 2003 because of it.

Again, I don't blame the kids, but adults ruin it for all.

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Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute (Post 114046)

I don't think that's true. The Philippines violated the rules you mentioned in 1992, after which LLWS decided to step up enforcement. Taiwan voluntarily withdrew during those years.

http://www.enttwist.com/little-league-world-series/

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In 1992, Long Beach declared a 6–0 winner after the international tournament committee determined that Zamboanga City had used ineligible players that were either not from within its city limits, overage, or both.
No teams from Taiwan/Chinese Taipei participated after the 1996 tournament until the 2003 tournament, after the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association decided its leagues would no longer charter with Little League, claiming inability to comply with rules enacted in 1992 regarding the maximum size of player pools and number of participating teams in leagues based at schools, and residency requirements, which Little League Baseball had stated they would enforce more strictly, especially after the 1992 incident.