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WTF? How long have the Little League World Series been on?

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I watched both games today, I watch ESPN daily, never saw a damn ad for it or anything until I saw the Mass vs. Maine game today.

How many games have they actually played?
-- mrcodedude
 
just saw in the paper this morning that a local LL team won a trip to the LLWS on sunday, so i'm guessing not long
 
The good stuff, the big/real games from Williamsport. PA do not start until the 15th. They run from the 15th to the 24th. 3PM Friday the 15th is Great Lakes vs. New England.
 
Originally posted by: NakaNaka
The good stuff, the big/real games from Williamsport. PA do not start until the 15th. They run from the 15th to the 24th. 3PM Friday the 15th is Great Lakes vs. New England.
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I grew up around Williamsport, Little League so huge! It bogs the city down every August! Well worth the hassle though.
 
I got a quick question on the makeup of teams. Take for example the team of Tallmadge, Ohio. Do all of their players have to live in Tallmadge? Also, the international teams, such as Japan. Is that the best players in the entire country, or do they all have to live in the same city? Seems, like if its the best players in the country, they would have an unfair advantage.
 
Originally posted by: austin316
I got a quick question on the makeup of teams. Take for example the team of Tallmadge, Ohio. Do all of their players have to live in Tallmadge? Also, the international teams, such as Japan. Is that the best players in the entire country, or do they all have to live in the same city? Seems, like if its the best players in the country, they would have an unfair advantage.
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Japan (the team who won) was Tokyo's team.
 
I declare shenanigans on the Tokyo's first 6 runs. The batter that got hit with the bases loaded should've been out. One of the pitches was clearly over the plate as replays showed but the ump called it a ball because it appeared it was inside. Well that's because the batter had his back foot and most of his body out of the batter's box. Bad call by the ump. Until that point, it had the makings of being a really close game.
 
its been on WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY to fvcking long. and I had to drive through Williamsport yesterday on my way back down to school. it took an hour to go 2 miles. i wanted to kill SOOOOOO many people
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
its been on WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY to fvcking long. and I had to drive through Williamsport yesterday on my way back down to school. it took an hour to go 2 miles. i wanted to kill SOOOOOO many people
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That sucks man.
 
Originally posted by: Izzo
I declare shenanigans on the Tokyo's first 6 runs. The batter that got hit with the bases loaded should've been out. One of the pitches was clearly over the plate as replays showed but the ump called it a ball because it appeared it was inside. Well that's because the batter had his back foot and most of his body out of the batter's box. Bad call by the ump. Until that point, it had the makings of being a really close game.
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You're right, the walk was almost clearly a LL strikeout. I guess these kids are imitating big leaguers crowding the plate now. :|

However, both earlier spectacular tags at Home Plate and 3rd base were quite probably home-country advantage calls. I'm not calling bias, I'm just saying that replays showed very close calls that could have gone the other way and put run(s) on the board for Japan.

Furthermore, Broad was laboring and if he had recorded the strikeout, he still had two outs to get out of trouble. The champions were a wrecking crew, and although like you, I would have loved to see a pitchers' duel, Japan was just the better team yesterday.

Edit:
According to Sportsline.com, I'm wrong about the number of outs in the breakout 4th inning. So it was a much bigger call than anyone realized at the time.
 
I've been watching parts of the LLWS for a week now. It's pretty exciting, but I don't know when/if I'll be able to watch more now that I have class. I didn't see that play with the Tokyo team. I saw other parts though.
 
Originally posted by: manly
Originally posted by: Izzo
I declare shenanigans on the Tokyo's first 6 runs. The batter that got hit with the bases loaded should've been out. One of the pitches was clearly over the plate as replays showed but the ump called it a ball because it appeared it was inside. Well that's because the batter had his back foot and most of his body out of the batter's box. Bad call by the ump. Until that point, it had the makings of being a really close game.
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You're right, the walk was almost clearly a LL strikeout. I guess these kids are imitating big leaguers crowding the plate now. :|

However, both earlier spectacular tags at Home Plate and 3rd base were quite probably home-country advantage calls. I'm not calling bias, I'm just saying that replays showed very close calls that could have gone the other way and put run(s) on the board for Japan.

Furthermore, Broad was laboring and if he had recorded the strikeout, he still had two outs to get out of trouble. The champions were a wrecking crew, and although like you, I would have loved to see a pitchers' duel, Japan was just the better team yesterday.
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Yeah, I didn't really agree with the first two questionable calls. There was no way I would've called the guy out at home just because the catcher had to jump for the ball and came down on top of the runner's leg. It is impossible for that to happen unless the runner was there first.

The play at third was really close and could've gone either way. Probably should've gone Japan's way though.

I am 91% sure that the nonstrikeout that led to the hit batter was with 2 outs. So that would've ended the inning. (IIRC, they showed the whole crowd standing and cheering and the commentators mentioned that he was 1 strike away from getting out of the jam.)

oh, and mad props to both teams taking a celebration lap around the stadium. That showed some major class.
 
Originally posted by: austin316
I got a quick question on the makeup of teams. Take for example the team of Tallmadge, Ohio. Do all of their players have to live in Tallmadge? Also, the international teams, such as Japan. Is that the best players in the entire country, or do they all have to live in the same city? Seems, like if its the best players in the country, they would have an unfair advantage.
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Yeah, well, at least an US team will always make it to the final, but I guess that's the LL rule. Does that mean US has won the most world series title?
 
Tallmadge is a city of 20,000 people. How could they ever compete against the likes of Toykyo, which has millions of people.
 
DAAAAAAMMIT. I missed the championship? Aww man, Little League Baseball is so much more exciting than MLB. Probably because pitching hasn't reached the insane levels that they are in MLB.
 
Originally posted by: austin316
Tallmadge is a city of 20,000 people. How could they ever compete against the likes of Toykyo, which has millions of people.
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Since you asked, I'm sure metropolitan cities are broken up in some meaningful districting for the LLWS. I'm pretty certain population is a factor in the rules. Of course, there have been cases of fraud in the past (I recall the Phillipines team was caught; and the Danny Almonte age/immigration fraud was especially deceitful). Although population density probably is still an advantage that cannot be completely eliminated, it's not the Tokyo All-Stars vs. small-town USA Boynton Beach. And like Izzo stated, but for one bad call, it was a highly competitive game.

For simplicity, we just happen to refer to the Tokyo, Japan team and the Florida, USA squad.
 
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