The Little League World Series kicked off this week in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and it’s been an excellent past few days of little league baseball.
Is it appropriate to gamble on the Little League World Series? I mean, these are 12-year-old kids we are talking about here. The morality of betting on pre-pubescent middle-schoolers may be questionable…
Of course it’s appropriate. We’re talking about gambling. There’s no subject matter you should not gamble on.
Here are my favorite Over/Under’s from the 2015 Little League World Series.
- Over/Under – 2.5 – Kids who list Mike Trout as their favorite player
- Over/Under – 3.5 – Kids who list Drake as their favorite musical act.
- Over/Under – 1.5 – Kids who list Will Ferrell as their favorite actor.
- Over/Under – .5 – Kids who list a Craft Beer as their favorite drink because they are already hard at work on becoming a hipster.
- Over/Under – 3.5 – Kids who list Kate Upton as their favorite actor.
- Over/Under – 4.5 – Moments in the game when the announcers talk about the family of some kid who is up to bat
- Over/Under – .5 – Kids from the New England team listing a Yankee as their favorite player.
- Over/Under – 10.5- Moments in a game when the announcers mention “sportsmanship.” Note, this is only the subject of sportsmanship. For only the term “sportsmanship,” set the Over/Under much, much, much higher.
There are two brackets to the Little League World Series: the United States bracket and the International Bracket. For the U.S., after day one, you have to give the edge to this team from the Mid-Atlantic, as the Pennsylvania kids put a hurt on a team from Missouri, 18-0.
On the international side, it was impressive to see the team from Uganda knock off a Caribbean team. You can almost guarantee the international team facing the American bracket will be either Japan or Chinese Taipei. That being said, Japan beat Chinese Taipei last Friday night pretty heavily. I think ultimately you should be putting your money on Japan out of the international bracket.
At the end of the day, it’s little league baseball. None of us know what the hell we’re talking about.
The only way anyone could be a little league expert is if they’re a borderline pedophile. The type of person that would Google kid’s middle schools and give the front office a call and demand they send them detailed injury information, in depth scouting reports, game logs, etc.
I highly recommend gathering eight of your best buddies and gambling on the little league world series. It makes it so much more interesting, and almost irresistible to watch 12-year-olds make god-awful fielding errors due to a lack of semi-essential fundamentals.
Also, don’t worry, football kicks off in just about three weeks. WE’RE ALMOST THERE!
