OT: Little League WS.....Mich vs. Ohio on espn right now

Submitted by San Diego Mick on

Hey everyone, just thought I would put this thread up cause hey, it's Mich v Ohio, so why not. While the Tigers are playing Cleveland, and beating them consistently, I felt a thread was apropos. Hope our Mich. boys can take it!

DH16

August 8th, 2013 at 2:34 PM ^

Grosse Pointe draws their little league boundaries weird, so there's three LL divisions for the 5 GPs. If we combined any or all of them the teams would be insanely good, every single boy in the community plays Little League, it's a rite of passage.

MaizeAndBlueWahoo

August 8th, 2013 at 3:06 PM ^

I don't think it's all that weird except that, yeah, it does cut down on the success of the area.  The size of each LL is pretty impressive.  They were three divisions when I was playing 20 years ago and they've doubled in size and participation since then.  An all-star team of GPers would be pretty dominant in the state.

willywill9

August 8th, 2013 at 2:44 PM ^

Never was from Michigan, you should be impressed I even know the town! :)

But yeah, my bad.  and now it's just stuck there.  Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe .... got it committed to memory now.

willywill9

August 8th, 2013 at 2:21 PM ^

This Hamilton OH kid is dealing, and he looks like he might cruise in this game. 

Michigan's SWAG DADDY is a 12 y/o and is 6'2, 200lbs?  Offer him now!

Wolverines Dominate

August 8th, 2013 at 2:38 PM ^

If there is anything worse than professional baseball (there aren't many things by the way), it's little league baseball.

In reply to by Ty Butterfield

Wolverines Dominate

August 8th, 2013 at 3:06 PM ^

You're asking for a score on a blog that isn't in real time? I bet you could have used Google or ESPN to find the score with the absolute minimum of difficulty.

MaizeAndBlueWahoo

August 8th, 2013 at 3:09 PM ^

Saw it once.  Can't watch it again.  Not a bad movie, I just get pissed off that it was never actually filmed here, and more or less the only reason for that is that the school superintendent at the time refused permission to use GP South for filming.  Grrrr. 

So instead of my school taking a starring role in one of the better cultish flicks of the decade, it gets one in Miley Cyrus's shitty teenybopper romance.  FFFFFUUUUUU-

Committed

August 8th, 2013 at 3:48 PM ^

A second ago, on the mound the Ohio manager had a team meeting...he said 'listen to me, listen to me, listen to me...we are obviously gunna wawk heem...he's a big son-of-a-buck'



Them, there, Ohio folk...they country

UofM626

August 8th, 2013 at 4:45 PM ^

Don't get to mad at me. I just watched that whole game between Michigan and Ohio and I must say the walk off was awesome "BUT" I coached a 12 year old all star team in Southern Cali this year and we lost in the Sectionals and my team would have mopped the damn field up w both those teams. District and Section here in So Cal is damn HARD to get by and win that it's a shame we have to beat each other up in our area year in and year out. I was shocked at the drop in talent from those 2 teams to the team I coach and the teams we faced in Sections. But congrats to them and hopefully they continue on.

ChasingRabbits

August 8th, 2013 at 5:48 PM ^

About how big is the pool of kids that you select your All-star team from? I ask, because I coach in a nearby small district to the mich team and our 12 went pretty far a couple years ago only to run into a couple teams that were much better than us. There is no way with our pool of talent to make it all the way to Williamsport, and if we did, well I would have to agree with you... Unfortunately. So I was just curios if it was mostly a numbers thing or just better players. Or a whole lot of both.

UofM626

August 8th, 2013 at 8:38 PM ^

But we have 5 separate little leagues. And I'm telling you that our league has about 2kids total. This includes T Ball, Rookie, Minors and Majors. With about 50 kids to choose from for the 11-12 yr old team. I'm still just shocked at the drop off in talent. Our District Tourney I'm confident in saying that all 5 of the teams in my bracket would if beat those two teams tonight. My team in particular would of mercies both of those teams. I'm just saying this so people understand that the first 2 rounds in a Southern Cali tournament in my area is way harder then anything I've seen on TV. Also the Western Regional here in Sam Bernardino the teams are good but not great. Just saying