Who ever would have thunk it? Saudi Arabia has one hell of a little

[acmavm]

league team. In the International League.

Anyone else got that tournaments on? The Little League World Series?

edit: The Saudis aren't playing now. New York and Illinois are playing. It's the US teams right now.

[Buzz Clik]

1. The Saudi team is composed of Americans with a single exception.

[bluemarkers]

2. yep

The dye their hair blonde too.

[acmavm]

3. Okay, since you guys brought it up and it won't seem so damn

indelicate, why are these western kids all playing on a Saudi team? I don't want to sound racist, I get called that enough around here, but why can't they play as Americans in the International League?

edit: Hey, we got moved. I didn't know we even had a sports topic.

Anyway come on, someone explain this. It sort of seemed strange to me because, unlike most these other teams, this isn't really a national team in the sense that only kids of Saudi citizenship play on the team.

But I must say, they're damn good.

[northzax]

5. I don't think you need to be a citizen in the LLWS

but I did think (shows what I know) that you have to live in the place that you represent. but maybe not?

[erpowers]

6. Military Maybe

Are any of these kids the children of military personnel? That is the only think I can think of.

[Twillig]

7. Think "Aramco" n/t

[erpowers]

8. Representing Their League

Apparently they are just representing the league they play in which is the Arabian American league. This story does not fully explain why these kids are representing Saudi Arabia, but it does give some information.

http://www.littleleague.org/Series/2005divisions/llbb/obbp/19fri.htm

[bigwillq]

4. Is Saudi the team with that 6-foot-8 kid?

:shrug:

[JohnKleeb]

10. Yeah

Kid is frigging huge. I mean damn.

[LisaM]

9. They said that their parents work for the oil companies

so I started rooting against them.