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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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That Oregon/Mass game was a great one, wasn't it?
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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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Barry Larkin is the only ball player I've heard of that won both a Little League World Series and an MLB World Series.
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my Taiwan lost to Chávez's kids.
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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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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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