Reply to "LLWS"

Rob Kremer1,000+ posts

I think Little League is woefully behind the times.

Sure, I like watching the LLWS, but the field dimensions are way too small, and the playing rules are too contrived.

Little League Baseball is not really baseball, it is 9 oversized kids on an undersized diamond.

200 foot fences? Kids these days are routinely hitting pop flies over them.

Then, the whole game is geared toward having some man-child fireballer throwing 80 mph from 46 feet.

Fun to watch, maybe, for a week in August. But IMO Little League needs to change its rules or else it will dwindle as kids play other leagues that allow leading off and have reasonable field dimensions.

The entire 12U Little League experience is geared for an exciting ESPN broadcast. The downside is hundreds of thousands of 12 year olds playing a game that only pretends to be baseball.

8/15/051:56 PM

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