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AP<\/a>: Taiwan wins the Little League World Series, riding the arm of their 5\u20198 wunder pitcher, who throws 82 mph<\/span><\/p>\n Being the consummate sports fan, news of the Little League World Series always pops up for me on whatever feeds peruse on the regular.\u00a0 I was cognizant of the fact that Taiwan was in the tournament, and I had heard that they had an alleged 12-year old who was 5\u20198 and was hurling fireballs at 82 mph, which is the MLB equivalent of being able to throw around 107 mph, and my first thought when I heard about this kid was, a Danny Almonte<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n Frankly, the Little League World Series is no stranger to parents who lie about their kids\u2019 ages to get them in for whatever selfish reasons, but Danny Almonte was one of the most famous cases, since he was actually 14 years old, throwing 80 mph, leading his team from the Bronx deep into the tournament.\u00a0 He was eventually found out, and unfortunately became the poster child for age cheating, despite the fact that it was his parents and his team that orchestrated the whole ruse.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, when I saw a picture of Taiwan\u2019s flamethrower, my red flat went up immediately \u2013 there\u2019s no way this kid is 12 years old.\u00a0 The little man has the pizza face of that of a 15-16 year old, and at 5\u20198 is nearly a full head taller than most of his teammates and opposition.\u00a0 And I feel like the Taiwanese were banking on the fact that people in the west can\u2019t tell Asians apart much less be able to deduce age based on appearance, and snuck him into the tournament with the added cushion of racial sensitivity.<\/span><\/p>\n But yeah, there\u2019s no way this man is 12 years old.\u00a0 As the title of this post says, if he\u2019s really 12 years old, then I\u2019m 35 years old, it\u2019s that egregious of a claim.\u00a0 Obviously it was pretty easy for Taiwan to win the tournament, when they\u2019re trotting out a grown-ass man<\/a> to play against actual children, and it sucks for all these kids who get obliterated by a ringer, who might then start to give up on baseball and get all jaded from the experience.<\/span><\/p>\n All I\u2019m saying is that if it emerges at a later date that this kid turned out to obviously not be 12 years old, don\u2019t be surprised.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to make the joke about how you heard it here first, but one I don\u2019t have any readers, and two I know that I\u2019m far from the first person to be making this claim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n #GGLLWS<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AP: Taiwan wins the Little League World Series, riding the arm of their 5\u20198 wunder pitcher, who throws 82 mph Being the consummate sports fan, news of the Little League World Series always pops up for me on whatever feeds peruse on the regular.\u00a0 I was cognizant of the fact that Taiwan was in the … Continue reading If this man is 12, then I\u2019m 35<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,147,100,129,83,52,89,99,58,49],"class_list":["post-50830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-cheating","tag-comparison","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-racism","tag-reminiscing","tag-sports","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50832,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50830\/revisions\/50832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}