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I'm about as interested in watching 12-year olds play baseball as I am in watching a movie produced by 12-year olds, and I hope there is never a channel dedicated to refrigerator art. How does that quality as "outstanding baseball"? Every MLB player was 3 years old once. Do you want to see 3-year olds playing baseball on the national networks, because some of them might be major leaguers some day?
There is real baseball, and there is "aww that's cute" baseball. There are things cuter than little league baseball. There is nothing wrong with kids playing baseball or mom and pop rooting for them, but it doesn't deserve 40 or 50 hours of network TV coverage when there are plenty of genuine quality artistic performances taking place in this country that don't even get on community access cable channels.
I'm about as interested in watching 12-year olds play baseball as I am in watching a movie produced by 12-year olds, and I hope there is never a channel dedicated to refrigerator art. How does that quality as "outstanding baseball"? Every MLB player was 3 years old once. Do you want to see 3-year olds playing baseball on the national networks, because some of them might be major leaguers some day?
There is real baseball, and there is "aww that's cute" baseball. There are things cuter than little league baseball. There is nothing wrong with kids playing baseball or mom and pop rooting for them, but it doesn't deserve 40 or 50 hours of network TV coverage when there are plenty of genuine quality artistic performances taking place in this country that don't even get on community access cable channels.
I'm not big on the LLWS - I always feel bad for the kid who drops the ball - but this argument is pretty weak when you consider all the other garbage on TV. There are plenty of other things to cut first (reality shows, soap operas, etc.)
I'm about as interested in watching 12-year olds play baseball as I am in watching a movie produced by 12-year olds,
Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was 8 and had written 8 symphonies by the time he was 12.
You might be missing some good movies.
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and I hope there is never a channel dedicated to refrigerator art.How does that quality as "outstanding baseball"? Every MLB player was 3 years old once. Do you want to see 3-year olds playing baseball on the national networks, because some of them might be major leaguers some day?
Three year olds don't play in the Little League World Series.
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There is real baseball, and there is "aww that's cute" baseball.
I'd certainly say that little league baseball is 'real' baseball. There's a pitcher, batter, fielders, base runners...what's missing?
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There are things cuter than little league baseball. There is nothing wrong with kids playing baseball or mom and pop rooting for them, but it doesn't deserve 40 or 50 hours of network TV coverage
That's probably for the networks to decide, doncha think?
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when there are plenty of genuine quality artistic performances taking place in this country that don't even get on community access cable channels.
Writer Stephen King helped coach his son Owen's Little League team to the Maine state championship in 1989. He wrote a story about the experience entitled "Head Down" (the only thing by King that I ever read). It was an enjoyable read.
The team was eliminated in the second round of the Eastern Regional Tournament. One of Owen's teammates was pitcher Matt Kinney who had an uneventful MLB career.
These kids play for the love of the game, not the money. You dont see them fighting when a ball comes close to hitting them. Maybe the major leaguers should take lessons from these kids.
These kids play for the love of the game, not the money. You dont see them fighting when a ball comes close to hitting them. Maybe the major leaguers should take lessons from these kids.
What? The lesson here is that these kids are too soft, molly coddled. Charging the mound shows that you aren't going to let these preteen thug pitchers disrespect you.
Why in my day... select one or more from among:
Bob Gibson,
Don Drysdale,
Early Wynn
Sal Maglie
...would have ...select one or more from among:
Knocked a guy on his ass
Served up some chin music
Thrown a purpose pitch
Stuck it in his ear
at....select one or more from among:
Anyone crowding the plate
Anyone doing any showboating
Anyone who had hit one of his guys
His own mother
just because...select one or more from among:
He was feeling mean
He didn't like the way the guy was looking at him
He truly hated his opponents
Mom was crowding the plate.
These kids play for the love of the game, not the money. You dont see them fighting when a ball comes close to hitting them. Maybe the major leaguers should take lessons from these kids.
Major leaguers don't need to take lessons from these kids. 99% of all MLB players go their entire career without being involved in a single in-game scuffle. They get to the Majors because they have mastered personal self-discipline. You can count on the fingers of one hand all the current MLB players who have ever charged the mound. And I will guarantee you that more a few Little Leaguers are bullies at school.
With MLB baseballs flying around at 100+ mph, it can be a dangerous, life-threatening environment if somebody is careless, and baseball brawls almost invariably occur as a byproduct of policing against carelessness. Any player who wants or tries to injure another player is quickly and quietly gotten rid of in the lower minors, if not sooner, and is never heard from again. no matter how talented he is at the game of baseball.
If anything, the reverse is true. There is no sport whose top-level practitioners are better role models for kids, than baseball. Little-leaguers would do very well to take lessons from MLB baseball players. In spite of a few outliers, in whom the media takes perverse delight glorifying their idiosyncrasies.
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