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Over the years, this has become one of my favorite late summer events. This year, there is a team from Hamilton, Ohio in the U.S. bracket (8 teams).

With few exceptions, it is as pure as baseball gets. Hate when they show the kids crying, but imagine the pressure these youngsters are enduring ? National TV,...etc.

Discuss,...

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This year, there is a team from Hamilton, Ohio in the U.S. bracket (8 teams).

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Hamilton is just down the road from me so I'm paying alittle extra attention to it this year.

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Hate when they show the kids crying, but imagine the pressure these youngsters are enduring ?

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It's a great event. I'm glad they still care enough to cry when they lose, I'm honestly glad they haven't had that competitiveness sucked out of them. On the flip side I hope when they lose that they are surrounded by people who are proud of them and remind them what an accomplishment it is to get that far. In the end, it should be a great experience for all of them and something they can look back on fondly...

I hope that too, it kind of seems to me that with it being televised nationally and all the hype that goes with it, it takes something away from the "pure" side of it. I know it must be incredibly exciting and all, but it sometimes seems like too much for me when I watch it.

The one thing I wanted to mention when I posted the thread and forgot was, a small point of trivia -- Brian Sipe played at Williamsport many a year ago. I believe he was his team's catcher.

Yea you find something pure and good and the only way to share it with a bunch of people is to take away some of that pureness... in the end you just hope the adults remember to be adults and teach the good lesson that it's still supposed to be fun..

Wanna talk fun? Last year I followed my nephew's team............they were the age above little leage.....14 and 15 yr. olds I believe.

They made it to the jr. league World Series. Long story short, they got third in the world series.

And the puerto rican team was a joke..

a joke how? they were that good? that bad? Or you question their ages?

My friend's team lost again to Hawaii and got nocked out. but had a good time in Southern Cal. Verry good game's.

The Poland girls placed 4th in the Girls Little League Championship. They lost in the semi to Warner Robbins out of Georgia ( who were the defending champion) 1-0. Warner Robbins has a population around 50,000. Poland is well under 14,000. Warner went on to win the championship.

That's only done as a cost measure,....of course it takes away from "purity" but the game itself - as an entity - isn't any different because of "bat ping,..."

'Pure' as in, it's tough to cheat, played by adolescents, and it teaches some wonderful character lessons. Money and profit don't seem to be the driving force. I would pay to watch it before I pay to watch professional baseball.

Would it be as entertaining ? Maybe not, but I personally enjoy it more because it has qualities that "big" baseball doesn't.

Great first inning if you're an Ohio fan

Thanks,....I forgot it was on !

I know, but for an inner city kid like I was, there was always a degree of class envy when it comes to "Little League" baseball. We played in the CBF (Cleveland Baseball Federation) league when we were kids. It was a city rec dept program that had leagues playing from one side of town to the other ... places like Edgewater Park, Gordon Park, Brookside, Gunning, Fairfax, Navy Park - municipally owned fields. We wore sponsor tee shirts (I think it was Fisher Foods grocery chain), jeans, and sneakers. We had no coaches and our parents rarely, if ever, saw us play because games were in the morning and early afternoon. Our "bike brigade" used to ride over and watch the rich kids (for us, that was kids west of West Boulevard) play "Little League" in the early evening; they were decked out in full uni's, spikes, with a manager, adult coaches on the baselines, and parents in the stands, usually ruining it for the kids. Anyway, we watched them and thought "Jeez, we're way better than they are." ... which may or may not have been true. But I know who had more fun.

gottcha.

j/c,...Texas looks like they have Ohio's bats,....Japan looked good this afternoon. They will win this thing, the way they play fundamental defense and are NASCAR on the basepaths.

Rain,...ughh,...