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Originally posted by His High Holiness
If I may add my 2 cents:
I make fun of Little League because of the hypocrisy of it all. It is suppose to be about kids, however, the season ends for 80% of the kids before they even get out of school. Instead of playing baseball all summer, 80%+ of them are sent home by the middle of June to make way for the All Stars. By July 4, 95%+ have been eliminated so that crazy coaches can live out their fantasy of going to the Little League World Series. The summer has barely begun and 95+% kids are not playing baseball.
If Little League was for kids, there would be a program all summer long for ALL kids to play in, not just the all stars. Instead, the regular season is packed into their school year when they have homework and 99 other things to do.
Peter
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AMEN!!!
I work Dixie, and it is just as bad. One year, the regular season for the younger kids ended almost a week BEFORE school was out. We had some snow days and had to go one day in June to make up the last one. The last regular season game was on the Saturday before Memorial Day. They (league officials) claim they start and end the season so early so the games will not interfere with vacations, but that is a crock. They just want to get to working with the all-stars.