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Huckleberry

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  1. I can't believe I solved this over 4 years ago. But I did.
  2. That's not actually that bad although I assume they have a much higher participation percentage than highly populated metro areas in the contiguous 48 just because travel is obviously not as big of a thing. My local league has a similar total population in our boundaries but probably a fraction of baseball players participating in LL compared to Hawaii.
  3. Ah yeah that makes sense. Also, crazy that Hawaii goes home being shut out twice. The Helo Curse is powerful. Florida and Hawaii went I think 2-3 after he said nobody was stopping them.
  4. I didn't see it but in LL the fingers on the bat are still a HBP.
  5. Huge losers bracket game at 2pm between South Carolina and Hawaii. Have to give the nod to Hawaii of course but SC is capable of winning it all if they play well and get some breaks. Losing to Nevada with Giuletti on the hill may have finished them off though. We will see today.
  6. Didn't they partner with TexAgs before that? Hard to nosedive from rock bottom.
  7. It really is incredible, but I will say that I wouldn't bet against Hawaii winning it from the losers bracket. They have the pitching depth to do it.
  8. Texas rosters under Charlie Strong were average in most places. Nothing about Texas's roster last year was average except punter and placekicker when the kick mattered. But I'm done with the conversation, we're at the point in a program upswing when fans completely forget what average looks like.
  9. So the problem is that you don't know what average means. You're saying now that when you say we were average at a position you mean average for the top 8 programs in the country? What use is that description?
  10. Silly. QB and RB were both well above average. You don't watch enough college football if you think we were average at either position. Not a good as Bijan or Brooks does not even come close to equaling average.
  11. Why the fuck do Ewers and Wilson have run blocking grades?
  12. Damn, their OL must be looking like garbage if they're talking about a complete reshuffle two weeks out. At least I hope so.
  13. You take the time to spell this the French way but can't be bothered to click Paste as Plain Text. You are a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, facially covered by a backwards balaclava.
  14. Man I really don't like their bracket. The West and and Northwest region get double lucky breaks as they follow up a winner's bracket bye with a loser's bracket bye. Based on getting the first bye they could have easily swapped Northwest with Southwest and swapped West with Mid-Atlantic.
  15. Helobious's two favorites for the title who he implied nobody could hang with are 1-2 since his post. The man is a wizard.
  16. The capsule is probably completely gone.
  17. I for one hope that attitude isn't infectious at all. Why would we want all our RBs more excited to be tackled than score touchdowns?
  18. They have both seemed pretty predictable actually. Hamilton is slower than his teammate consistently. Not very unpredictable and certainly not wildly so.
  19. I'm not sure why you want it to be one way so bad, I'm just informing you that it isn't that way. Little League has lost millions of American players because of the restrictions on practices per week, not allowing teams to be formed by selection (must be drafted), etc. And I have no problem with those rules because Little League does a great job at serving communities and providing a place for any child to play baseball. It isn't elite level baseball because it shouldn't be that. However, those and other structural limitations are not enforced on all international leagues. In some places Little League is the option for elite baseball and that's okay because one of LLI's goals is spreading and growing the game. I have zero issues or complaints about the differences, I am just letting you know what they are. In other nations there are not nearly the number of additional organized baseball options that American kids have. But because of those realities it is 100% valid that the American teams play to an American championship. They are playing a different game (organizationally) than the international leagues. And logistically the only way to run the LLWS to a World Championship but also have a United States Championship is to have the US winner play an international winner. So that's what they do. The funny part is that you are the one who cares way too much about who wins a baseball tournament for 12-year-olds. The reason I'm okay with that part of the setup is specifically because it isn't that important who wins the last game. If the international teams beat the US then okay.
  20. You are implying that the structure of American Little Leagues is the same as international ones, which is not even close to true. Taiwan once withdrew because they could not meet the requirement that school based leagues can only draw from a school with 1000 students or fewer. The team representing them this year is from a school with a population of 2400. The 1000 limit still applies to United States leagues. Additionally, United States leagues' tournament teams are not allowed to practice or even name their roster until May 15th. Japan is playing games already by early May with practice starting weeks before that. Australia's tournaments start in April. International teams have months of extra practice as teams compared to American teams following the rules.
  21. Yep, and the current setup is the only way to ensure a United States championship game which is important not just because USA!USA!USA! but because the American leagues are playing by different rules as you note. In fact it is explicitly against the rules for US leagues to enter an intact select team.
  22. 96% of LL players play in the United States and LL allows differences in structure, etc. in the international regions. It's plenty fair that it's rigged that way, even if it's actually just for TV.
  23. It's a 10-team double elimination tournament and so only 4 teams play first round games and 6 get byes. Main reason going from 16 in Williamsport to 20 was dumb. It's not pool play.
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