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August 21, 2005
I'm a spoilsport
Do you know something that really annoys me about the Little League World Series? It's when they get into the final games, and they give every team a name like "East," "West," and "Asia." This is of no help to anyone. I think they should still refer to the teams as where they come from, such as West Oahu, HI or Council Rock-Newtown, PA. Supposing one of these teams advance to the last stages, they'll be given brand new threads and get referred to as "Midwest" or some junk like that.
My complaint with this is because it somehow strips the team of its identity. Nobody cares that the team is from New England, they'd rather know what city in New England they call home. According to what I've read, each team in the LLWS is an all-star team of the best players from each community's baseball league. So, supposing a place like Lancaster has a little league, at the end of the season they take the best players from the whole league and send them off to the LLWS. They're all from the same community. Identify them as such! When they win, everyone will know where they are from.
I don't understand why the Little League people have to give the clubs those silly regional monikers. Hell, some of them even get clumped into a ridiculous name like "Latin America."
Posted by oz115 at August 21, 2005 06:57 PM