Anyone watching the Little League World Series?

These 11-13 year olds are fantastic.

http://www.llbws.org/gameinfo/schedule.htm

And there are teams from the world too

The other day Cincinnati and Pittsburgh flew into town for an evening game. The teams were met by the kids at the airport and rode the buses back to the LL fields. The players then mingled with the kids and other fans. Some of the players had played in the LLWS.

It was great seeing the pros do this.

Yup Archie it is a true World Series even if it is USA vs World.

Major League Baseball is realizing that young kids today aren't into baseball like earlier generations. I think the average age of the MLB viewer is 55 years old. Soccer is really challenging them as far as the next generation. The town I grew up in had dozens of baseball fields and a very strong city wide youth baseball program. Now they don't have one at all. Nothing. Plenty of soccer fields though. I haven't seen a pickup game of baseball in a field full of kids in twenty years. Same goes for football and street hockey. The idea of having MLB players interact with the LLWS was a good idea, but they need to do more.