No, not the Olympics, the Little League World Series.
The whole thing was pretty much ruined before Saturday's U.S. championship game. The ABC announcer interviwed one Sean McIntyre of Thousand Oaks, Calif. Young Mr. McIntyre informed the nation that his team prays before every game, and that the Anaheim Angels' Darin Erstad attends his church.
Great. The fundies have now sunk their talons into a bunch of eleven- and twelve-year-olds. :puke: Plus, ten percent of Erstad's big, fat, big-league contract (and many others) is (presumably) going right into the pockets of the medievalists. :puke:
And so, another rarity for me: "Go Texas!" With absolute predictability, Richmond, Tex. proceeded to do their best Red Sox imitation, leaving the Thousand Oaks Handmaid's Tales in the final against a team from the Caribbean island of Curacao.
Amazingly, it has now come down to "Go Curacao"!
We now turn you over to Yankees announcer John Sterling for the call: :-)
"Swung on, and grounded to first. Garia there. Over to the bag -- got him! Ballgame over! Little League World Series over! Fundies lose! The-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e fundies lose! Time of the game, an unmanageable two hours, forty-seven minutes..."
Edit: Wasn't quite finished:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=1870825It was the first Little League title for the tiny island in the Netherlands Antilles, and the first for any team from the Caribbean. Jonathan Schoop, who earned the save, said he expected crowds at the airport and a lot of attention at school.Um, yeah, Jonathan. You may even get to meet your nation's leader, who I do not know offhand, but at least it isn't Bush*.
Now, the kicker:
California's coaches refused to come to the postgame news conference.Huh? Were they too busy praying or something? Morans.