First comes love, then comes
marriage (and
honeymoons), then comes...BABIES! The only thing that ever makes me want to have children is the
Little League World Series, which began yesterday and can be seen on a variety of television and internet outlets. Watching Team Japan cry after losing the 2007 Little League World Series championship game to Team U.S.A. is one of my dearest baseball memories. The kid with the glasses (see below)...that's an image I'm taking with me to the grave.
Of course there's crying in baseball!Japanese kids are the cutest. Cute enough to make me like the Red Sox, despite my disdain for Dice-K and his horrible season (photo
via Kei).
Non-Japanese kids are pretty cute, too. This photo of Jonathan Papelbon and his daughter Parker
almost makes me sorry for all of the times I've called him a sociopath on this blog. (I'm not
actually sorry because I'm pretty sure it's true.)
Now that the gap between the Red Sox and the Yankees is comfortably large, it's hard to really hate them. That would be like hating the Mets (i.e. petty). Let's extend this rare tide of good will by looking at some
baby photos of current BoSoxians. This very thorough
fan blog has lots, but I'll just give you Boston's best and worst looking players.
Tacoby, Pedroia...but you probably already knew that.
I own
an entire book of Jeter kid photos, but this is the only one I can find on the internet:
HE'S THE COOLEST! Maybe someday, if I stop drinking, my future child will be as cool as Derek Jeter.
As you can probably tell, the team from Taoyuan, Taiwan didn't win today's Little League World Series championship game. Here's the ESPN highlights reel, which includes shots of a Taiwanese kid eating M&Ms in the dugout, a 6 ft. 212 lb. American boy getting intentionally walked, and an amazing and frighteningly violent victory pileup. It concludes with the somewhat strange image of the Taiwanese team on their knees, scooping dirt into plastic bags. No tears are shown.
