You know how it is with these Little League World Series kids. Half of 'em look like they've been driving for five years.
And it kinda ruins the effect when the kid walking up to the plate is six feet tall and has a goatee.
But you know what was fun about the LLWS championship game yesterday, besides that it was Michigan against Ohio and Bo and Woody were probably arm-wrestling over the outcome?
The Michigan pitcher. That's what was fun.
His name was Ethan Van Belle and he struck out eight Ohioans as Michigan won the title, 5-2, and he looked like a Little Leaguer. He wasn't very tall and he didn't have a goatee, and you couldn't imagine him driving his buds down to the Dairy Queen to celebrate. He was a 12-year-old who looked like a 12-year-old. And there were a bunch of other 12-year-olds on the Michigan team -- on both teams, really -- who looked like 12-year-olds, too.
Now, I don't know what will become of any of them. Maybe some of them will grow up to wear goatees and drive cars and play in the big leagues, or at least for my Cruds in Pittsburgh. Maybe others will hit a growth spurt and wind up quarterbacking their teams in the Super Bowl against 59-year-old Tom Brady.
All I know is, they look for now like the kids they are. And the Blob finds that refreshing.
It also wonders if Ohio has to give back Toledo now.
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