There is nothing to keep our kids from taking infield 12 hours a day, if they were so inclined, they just won't do it.
Which by the way, I don't believe for one second they're taking infield 12 hours a day. They've got math and other shit to do.
Also, our squads are made up of all-star teams representing that entire little league community. It's not some innocuous team thrown together at the beginning of the year.
The separation to ensure an American final may have been set up that way back in the day because baseball wasn't as global, but now we haven't progressed only because ABC knows that people in Indiana aren't going to watch a Venezuela/ Korea Final. And especially they're afraid if we went into a dry spell for ten years without an American team in the final, interest would decline and damage the industry. It's a business decision. It has nothing to do with competitive fairness.