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Official Watch 12 Year Olds Cry- LLWS 2012

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Tennessee all over California 8-1 in the 3rd. This one might not make it to the 6th.
 
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Okay, I gotta come clean. I got hooked on this stuff this year

International final: Panama-Japan.

From what I've seen, these kids don't seem to quite have the velocity I've seen in the past. I seem to remember a fat kid from Kentucky a few years ago that touched 80, and these kids appear to top out in the mid 60's.

IIRC, Danny Almonte had pretty good velocity. :rolleyes:
 
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Japan gave up their first earned runs today. I believe those were also their first two earned runs given up all summer. If I'm remembering my qualifying stories correctly, they outscored opponents 60-0 to make it to Williamsport.
 
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IIRC, Danny Almonte had pretty good velocity. :rolleyes:

No, no, this was after that fiasco.

After looking it up, it was 2002. Louisville had some kid that went over 80 a few times in the final. Even the Hawaiian champions had some kids that threw fire compared to what we're seeing.
 
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3 3-run shots today for Lorenzo Butler for Tennessee. All with 2 strikes. 9 steaks for the kid today. 15-5 TN.

JFC.
 
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A 9-spot in the bottom of the 6th so far. This is absurd.
 
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Someone forgot to tell California the game was over.

15-15, bottom of the 6th.
 
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A kid hits 3 3-run bombs and it's not enough.

*shakes head*
 
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I don't know, but the produce section was open for business, because he was lobbing grapefruit.

It's 22-15 in the top of the 7th.

The first kid hit his pitch count, and then when the reliever came in, everything went straight to hell in a rocket sled.

24-15 now.
 
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This is just silly. Awesome and historic, but silly.

It's about 10 degrees past silly. They keep this up and the coaches are going to have to pitch tomorrow, because everyone else will be at the pitch count.
 
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24-16 final. Tennessee-Japan for everything.

Now. After watching that, I get to see the Tigers probably lose 3-2 tonight. :rolleyes:
 
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Well, we can continue this one or make a new thread for 2013, doesn't really matter to me.

Regionals are in action now, all the internationals except for Canada are complete. There's also been some changes apparently, as well as a whole new division. As far as Little League goes, the Africa and Middle East region has eliminated, with Africa joining the Europe region and the Middle East joining Asia-Pacific. Taking its place is the brand new Australia region, which is strange since no Australia team had ever made it before.

The new division is being called the Intermediate level, which has a 50 ft mound, 70 ft basepaths and same rules as junior league (which is basically high school rules), and is ages 11-13, same as the Major division that we know as Little League. So it's real baseball with leadoffs and pick offs and what not. I'd like to see that take over as the more popular version, but since LL is getting about 4 million a year from ESPN to broadcast from Williamsport I wouldn't count on it.

The international teams that made it so far are: Czech Republic, Panama, Tiajuana (MX), Tokyo (JP), Taiwan, and Perth (AUS). I'm probably going to have to root for the Czechs, even though the European teams are demolished every year.
 
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