Well, they finally came down with the long-awaited ruling: The US Champs from Chicago, that "feel good story"...
Illegal. Kids were being farmed from other leagues.
If it were that simple, then I wouldn't say what I said in my title here: They need to just shut Little League down.
If all of the areas were held to the same standard, we'd be getting our asses kicked routinely by the rest of the world. It is almost certainly only through this stupidity that Americans (and even many of the foreigners as well) can compete.
And if it were just that, it wouldn't be the problem.
Then we get to Little League Parent. If you want to talk about the scourge of many kids' experiences in sports, let's talk about the parents who, at best, simply want to live vicariously through the kids.
At worst, I truly believe some of these parents only had kids to create their own meal tickets (in one form or another), and find out in things like Little League (maybe for the first time in their pathetic lives!) that the world doesn't work that way.
I mean, if you get your team even to the top levels of Little League just in this country, you, your children, and your community get on ESPN -- for what could be anywhere from the Little League regionals all the way up to the US and World Championships in Williamsport, PA. That could be 3 weeks or so.
And if you have any kind of a story, it could get you far more than that. Mo'Ne Davis, anyone?
It's gone too far, and it's not going to stop with this Chicago team getting caught basically being what JT the Brick (who lives in Las Vegas, the city which now has the US champs, who were denied a shot at the world title through Jackie Robinson Little League's illegalities) asserts was a club or travelling team trying to pass themselves off as a legal Little League team for the tournament.
Shut it down. If we can't get baseball back to what it should've been, even for the kids, should we be surprised when it appears that the Commissioner of MLB wants steroids back?
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