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    Chicago Little League Team Under Investigation

    The Chicago-based team that knocked Philadelphia's Taney Dragons out of the Little League World Series - and went on to become the U.S. champs - is under investigation, ESPN reports.

    The investigation centers on whether the team, Jackie Robinson West, used players who live outside the team's geographic area.


    http://6abc.com/511742/

    I would think that this kind of thing would be common in Little League. Kind of hard to vent each player, and their location, before tournament play. Need to find a better way of controlling this, instead of potentially taking a title away from little kids.

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    It's a Little League who really cares everybody cheats

    Play ball

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    I love the Little League WS,just reminds me of the good old days playing Ball as a kid.

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    I was really hoping it was for fixing games.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MoMoneyMoVaughn View Post
    I was really hoping it was for fixing games.

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    same story from hardball with keanu

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    Somehow this will be traced back to Bill Belichick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by packerd_00 View Post
    I love the Little League WS,just reminds me of the good old days playing Ball as a kid.
    It where I was born...it's as close as I got to playing there

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    I give it until the end of the week, before we hear the national media throwing around that 6 letter word that starts with an "R".

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    Rigged?

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    Shit goes on all the time.
    HS football head coaches get the super talented kids just outside the district, have them 'transfer' to their HS, set up a dummy bedroom for the kid in the coaches house.....

    I grew up in NJ, NJ HS football is king, just like in Oklahoma and Texas and Florida.
    Union (NJ) when I went to school in the 80's were not just state powers, but national powerhouse, the Union coach did that every season.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirty Sanchez View Post
    It where I was born...it's as close as I got to playing there
    Ah sweet, yeah my team never got their either. Have you gone to watch it live.

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    Quote Originally Posted by packerd_00 View Post
    Ah sweet, yeah my team never got their either. Have you gone to watch it live.
    Yeah...lived there until I graduated high school...people are sensitive who live there because the stadium is actually in South Williamsport, PA not Williamsport...they're two separate cities. I used to sit on the large hill out in left field and sit in a cardboard box and ride down the hill and crash into the left-field fence....they still do that dumbass tradition
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirty Sanchez View Post
    Yeah...lived there until I graduated high school...people are sensitive who live there because the stadium is actually in South Williamsport, PA not Williamsport...they're two separate cities. I used to sit on the large hill out in left field and sit in a cardboard box and ride down the hill and crash into the left-field fence....they still do that dumbass tradition
    Were you their for the one in 93 with Sean Burroughs.

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    PED

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    I'd feel especially bad for the Vegas team. Winning the championship, but about as unceremonious as you can get.

    Assuming they were legit too. Some of those kids were huge.

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    chi_archie has to be involved. He is always tangled up with the inner city yutes.

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    Wrong thread

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    They have just vacated all the teams wins. Just announced it on Mike & Mike. Looking for link now.

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    Little League Baseball has stripped the U.S. championship from the Chicago-based Jackie Robinson West team and has suspended the coach for violating a rule prohibiting the use of players who live outside the geographic area that the team represents, it was announced Wednesday.

    The Jackie Robinson West team, the first all-African-American team to win the championship, must vacate wins from the 2014 Little League Baseball International Tournament -- including its Great Lakes Regional and United States championships.

    The team's manager, Darold Butler, has been suspended from Little League activity, and Illinois District 4 Administrator Michael Kelly has been removed from his position.


    http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/1...suspends-coach

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    who the fawk cares its just little league

    the real crime is that they put this shit on tv

    i would rather watch adult league softball on tv than little league

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    Quote Originally Posted by El Nino View Post
    chi_archie has to be involved. He is always tangled up with the inner city yutes.

    I am glad they stripped them


    i knew it was fishy a long time ago

    I'm still amazed that this cheating team did as well as I did.

    if you had asked me the odds on creating a team of 12 year old blacks using ALL of chicago, that made it as far as regionals I'd say it was 500-1 against being able to go that.

    fuk the cheating coaches, but kudos for getting a roster of 12 year old negroes that knew which hand to put the glove on, put down the b-ball, stop dreaming about bring a rapper, and cut down on smoking weed in the summer

    amazing
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chi_archie View Post
    I am glad they stripped them


    i knew it was fishy a long time ago

    I'm still amazed that this cheating team did as well as I did.

    if you had asked me the odds on creating a team of 12 year old blacks using ALL of chicago, that made it as far as regionals I'd say it was 500-1 against being able to go that.

    fuk the cheating coaches, but kudos for getting a roster of 12 year old negroes that knew which hand to put the glove on, put down the b-ball, stop dreaming about bring a rapper, and cut down on smoking weed in the summer

    amazing
    wow i don't even know what to say to that lol

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    They won the Chicago way
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chi_archie View Post
    I am glad they stripped them


    i knew it was fishy a long time ago

    I'm still amazed that this cheating team did as well as I did.

    if you had asked me the odds on creating a team of 12 year old blacks using ALL of chicago, that made it as far as regionals I'd say it was 500-1 against being able to go that.

    fuk the cheating coaches, but kudos for getting a roster of 12 year old negroes that knew which hand to put the glove on, put down the b-ball, stop dreaming about bring a rapper, and cut down on smoking weed in the summer

    amazing

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    So were all of those Korean kids were from the same village?

    Are they "investigating" any of the all-white teams?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jonal View Post
    So were all of those Korean kids were from the same village?

    Are they "investigating" any of the all-white teams?
    white teams?

    the Chicago team didnt have any white players i dont think.

    i agree though all the asian countries come up with an all-star team of the best players from that country.

    Maybe they get around it by only having 1 Little League association in the whole country.

    While a big city in the US might have 10 different little league associations within the same city

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Bear View Post
    white teams?

    the Chicago team didnt have any white players i dont think.

    i agree though all the asian countries come up with an all-star team of the best players from that country.

    Maybe they get around it by only having 1 Little League association in the whole country.

    While a big city in the US might have 10 different little league associations within the same city

    yeah, this thing is pretty unfortuate for the kids involved. i mean these kids in chicago don't have many (if any) positive activities they can participate in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr KLC View Post
    Little League Baseball has stripped the U.S. championship from the Chicago-based Jackie Robinson West team and has suspended the coach for violating a rule prohibiting the use of players who live outside the geographic area that the team represents, it was announced Wednesday.

    The Jackie Robinson West team, the first all-African-American team to win the championship, must vacate wins from the 2014 Little League Baseball International Tournament -- including its Great Lakes Regional and United States championships.

    The team's manager, Darold Butler, has been suspended from Little League activity, and Illinois District 4 Administrator Michael Kelly has been removed from his position.


    http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/1...suspends-coach
    See.....
    this is a perfect example of
    "PEOPLE WHO ANNOY YOU "

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Bear View Post
    white teams?

    the Chicago team didnt have any white players i dont think.

    i agree though all the asian countries come up with an all-star team of the best players from that country.

    Maybe they get around it by only having 1 Little League association in the whole country.

    While a big city in the US might have 10 different little league associations within the same city
    Or like the Phillipines using 16 year old players when they won in 92.

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    Big controversy here in Chicago today

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    Vegas players you know were at least form the area. There's nothing at all within 100 miles of here worth living in.

    But one of those kids looked just like Jeff Francour does right now. Just saying.

    Sucks for the Vegas team. They technically won, but no parade, no fanfare, nothing real.

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    And the LLWS committee needs to get its head out of its ass for once. Why do we find out about 16 year old players and kids from outside the district months after the series is over? Handle this shit before the games even start.

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