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Huckleberry

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  1. I for one hope that attitude isn't infectious at all. Why would we want all our RBs more excited to be tackled than score touchdowns?
  2. They have both seemed pretty predictable actually. Hamilton is slower than his teammate consistently. Not very unpredictable and certainly not wildly so.
  3. I'm not sure why you want it to be one way so bad, I'm just informing you that it isn't that way. Little League has lost millions of American players because of the restrictions on practices per week, not allowing teams to be formed by selection (must be drafted), etc. And I have no problem with those rules because Little League does a great job at serving communities and providing a place for any child to play baseball. It isn't elite level baseball because it shouldn't be that. However, those and other structural limitations are not enforced on all international leagues. In some places Little League is the option for elite baseball and that's okay because one of LLI's goals is spreading and growing the game. I have zero issues or complaints about the differences, I am just letting you know what they are. In other nations there are not nearly the number of additional organized baseball options that American kids have. But because of those realities it is 100% valid that the American teams play to an American championship. They are playing a different game (organizationally) than the international leagues. And logistically the only way to run the LLWS to a World Championship but also have a United States Championship is to have the US winner play an international winner. So that's what they do. The funny part is that you are the one who cares way too much about who wins a baseball tournament for 12-year-olds. The reason I'm okay with that part of the setup is specifically because it isn't that important who wins the last game. If the international teams beat the US then okay.
  4. You are implying that the structure of American Little Leagues is the same as international ones, which is not even close to true. Taiwan once withdrew because they could not meet the requirement that school based leagues can only draw from a school with 1000 students or fewer. The team representing them this year is from a school with a population of 2400. The 1000 limit still applies to United States leagues. Additionally, United States leagues' tournament teams are not allowed to practice or even name their roster until May 15th. Japan is playing games already by early May with practice starting weeks before that. Australia's tournaments start in April. International teams have months of extra practice as teams compared to American teams following the rules.
  5. Yep, and the current setup is the only way to ensure a United States championship game which is important not just because USA!USA!USA! but because the American leagues are playing by different rules as you note. In fact it is explicitly against the rules for US leagues to enter an intact select team.
  6. 96% of LL players play in the United States and LL allows differences in structure, etc. in the international regions. It's plenty fair that it's rigged that way, even if it's actually just for TV.
  7. It's a 10-team double elimination tournament and so only 4 teams play first round games and 6 get byes. Main reason going from 16 in Williamsport to 20 was dumb. It's not pool play.
  8. Always love this stuff. Even the ones who think they're reasonable are just saying "come on man I just want to pay less while getting more in return."
  9. He's on pace for 72.2 IP this season, basically the same as last year. I will blame Espada for when he uses Hader but the volume isn't really an issue to me. Doesn't mean he won't need to be used less as he ages but wasn't really that foreseeable when going from age 30 to age 31.
  10. I think Hader could match Pressly's spin rate right-handed these days.
  11. After taking advantage of a lucky draw in the regional, Richmond Lamar got a terrible draw in Williamsport. They did not get a bye and if they win their first game they play Hawaii coming off a first round bye so will face the best pitcher the West champs have to offer.
  12. Plus when you do stupid shit like type "fvck" you are not being any less profane than if you had just typed the word correctly. The entire point of words is to communicate an idea to the reader or listener. When you type "fvck" the reader knows exactly what you meant and interprets it accordingly. It is still profane, it is still cursing. Literally the only thing it accomplishes is making you look like a pussy.
  13. Oh good, you regret it after it's too late. Fuck you.
  14. Yep they need to reconfigure the regionals based on population. That way they can seem fair while really doing it for competitive reasons. California and Texas should have 4 teams in the regional round instead of 2 if North Dakota has 1. Florida should probably have 2 or 3. Et cetera. Hell they could get the regionals to be awesome and even with 8 teams in each of the 10 regionals by adding extra teams from the highest population states until they get to 80. Then you would hope not to have teams like this North Dakota squad in a televised regional championship game. But then again this was one of the only 8 team regionals, maybe they just ran out of steam. A little crazy that in a regional with Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin the last 3 teams were the Dakotas and Nebraska.
  15. They built a big complex for the Central Region there. Which is apparently still a structural thing even though it's not a competitive region. But I agree.
  16. As the doctor said, just playing nonstop all year causes issues. Plus while there are pitch count rules they are routinely not enforced and the kids playing in multiple organizations and multiple sanctioning bodies (e.g., playing LL and PG) certainly don't always keep one organization updated on what they threw for the other one.
  17. Helobious magic has already struck as the defending world champions Lake Mary, FL were just eliminated by South Carolina. SC is the second US team to qualify for Williamsport.
  18. As written either both players or the second one and almost certainly the manager specifically because it was multiple players. Note that it doesn't say they "may" be ejected, it says they shall be. Agreed that the West champion and Florida are better, but Lamar and Eastbank are essentially equal. Eastbank won 7-5 then Lamar won 5-2.
  19. Congrats to Richmond Lamar. First team to join the US bracket in Williamsport.
  20. Big review in the Southeast Regional, they get it right. Virginia/South Carolina semi.
  21. Starting to look like a major league lineup again. If Yordan Alvarez wasn't the Cuban Greg Oden at least.
  22. Yeah that was a terrible final decision by Little League. I love Little League but if you don't enforce the rules you are asking for problems. There is zero reason now for any tournament team not to relay signals from second base until they're caught twice. The book said that player and probably manager should have been ejected.
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