Pearland, Texas says the same thing, lost to Chicago in Round 3.
Posted on 02/12/2015 9:08:59 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Little League officials announced Wednesday morning that Jackie Robinson West, the 2014 U.S. Little League World Series champions, have vacated their wins and been stripped of their title thanks to the use of ineligible players. In essence, they attempted to build a Little League all-star team by bringing aboard players from Chicago districts outside of their own, and a neighboring league caught on and reported as much to Little League officials.
According to Evergreen Park officials -- the neighboring league which caught on to the illegal roster -- Jackie Robinson West spent their 2014 "manipulating, bending and blatantly breaking the rules for the sole purpose of winning at all costs." This resulted in a 43-2 beatdown for Evergreen Park over just four innings at the hands of Jackie Robinson West during the sectional playoffs portion of the Little League season.
Officials for Jackie Robinson West still deny wrongdoing, but it's clear that Little League does not agree given their decision. Evergreen Park officials did not find it difficult to discover evidence of wrongdoing, thanks to modern technology: "All you had to do was Google any one of the players' names and their hometowns outside of Chicago pop up."
Jackie Robinson West wanted attention, and they got it. Said attention just also happened to be their downfall thanks to a coach who just maybe was still a bit upset over losing by almost six touchdowns in a shortened game.
While Jackie Robinson West was under investigation by Little League officials, the Las Vegas squad which lost the U.S. title game spoke out and said they wanted the Chicago-based team stripped of their victory. It is worth pointing out, though, that they didn't want the title to be handed to Nevada's Mountain Ridge squad -- just for the rules to be upheld:
"It's not a matter of changing the name on the title or the championship," Black said. "The outcome of the game is what it is, and the kids have moved on. For us, it's more of an ethics thing, a matter of doing what's right. Our intention is to not have the next 27 kids put in this position."
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That victory -- as well as the others -- have now been taken away. It's disappointing without context, but also because Jackie Robinson West was the first-ever all-African-American team to take home the Little League championship. Now, that history has been erased.
This is not the first Little League World Series scandal, of course. Most famous is Danny Almonte, who blew away opposing lineups and helped his Bronx team to a third-place Little League World Series finish in 2001. It turned out, though, that Almonte was not 12 as expected, but actually 14, two years too old to play in the tournament.
Incidents like these should serve to remind fans that professional baseball players aren't playing a kids' game, no matter how many times angry fans shout those very words whenever a major contract is signed -- kids are playing an adults' game, and that's how we end up with unfortunate situations and cheating like this.
Sounds like Deflategate to me. Perhaps they didn't need to cheat to win. But they did. And unlike the Patriots....
Belicheat’s brother?
“That victory — as well as the others — have now been taken away. It’s disappointing without context, but also because Jackie Robinson West was the first-ever all-African-American team to take home the Little League championship. Now, that history has been erased.”
It’s racist! Just ask JJ!
The Chicago Black Crime Families are not happy about this. Jesse Jackson has weighed in, Barack Obama is blaming it on a bad apple coach (not the kid’s fault), and the shouts of racism are echoing large.
The kids and their coaches were just doing what their dear leader has taught them.
Wow, we used to have a ten run rule when I played, wonder what happened to that. Kids getting beat like that can leave a scar that can damage self esteem. Never realized how many life lessons I was learning as a kid playing baseball(and other sports)’till I was grown.
Also, I hear Jessie jagoff is mobilized and yelling racism............what a shocker huh?
What about the black kids on other teams that lost because of the cheating? They don’t count?
It looks like both the Chicago teams learned their tactics from obam. The all-star team earned its stripes by manipulating the paperwork and breaking the law (rules). The coach who outed the offending all-star coach took the lesson from theOne whose first election campaign was to have his opponent disqualified - because he couldn’t have beaten her otherwise.
Maybe perfessor Bamskowitz is a better educator than I’ve noticed.
funny....this happened to the 2001 LL team from the Bronx, NY who represented the East, ...they used overaged players and a coach from the competing team (who lost to them) went to countries where these kids were born (Puerto Rico/Guatemala/etc) and found out they weren’t 13 and 14 (or whatever LL age is) rather 15 and 16...the league was stripped of everything....
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/08/danny-almonte-little-league-world-series
http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbcnews-com/danny-almonte-little-league-scandal-397442627999
“Said attention just also happened to be their downfall thanks to a coach who just maybe was still a bit upset over losing by almost six touchdowns in a shortened game.”
There’s a problem with this sentence, unless the rules of baseball have changed radically somewhere along the line.
The coaches and parents lied, cheated and gerrymandered the district lines to create a team of ringers. This is against the little league rules everywhere and they should be stripped of everything and the parents should be banned from little league for life. Nobody is talking about the damage they did to all the other kids who lost to this artificially created team.
Did I miss something? ;)
“Six touchdowns”
Hmmm. In baseball? I grew up playing soccer and this sounds a bit off.
Pearland, Texas says the same thing, lost to Chicago in Round 3.
They cheated to make an all-star team. Not the first time somebody in LL has done this, and not the first stripped title because of it. And really nothing like the rumors of deflategate, the very existence of this team was cheating.
Are they part of the Crime Families?
they must have been the away team piling up 43 runs, including those in the top half of the final inning.
there is a rarely used and informal “flip rule” where in such situations the overmatched home team agrees to bat in the top half of the the first inning in which the “run rule” applies.
other times, the umpires actually tell the coaches to have their baserunners leave the base early to call them out and get the overmatched team out of an inning.
this all being said, in an elimination situation such as a little league playoff game, it is understandable where none of these informal “rules” would be imposed.
it really sucks to think of all of those teams whose playoff hopes and dreams were eliminated by these cheaters.
They cheated and threw the race card as soon as they got caught. I’m sick of this kind of stuff.
I’m not for cheating, but this sounds like payback from a bitter sore loser to me.
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