Quote:Yes.  If they didn't win, then what exactly were the people watching it happen watching?

 

 

If you want there to be rules in place, how about actually enforce the rules before the fact?  Sure it may be impossible to catch everything, but the games have been played.  It's done.  Teams won.  Teams  lost.   I mostly watch professional sports, and I know this stuff is a different monster.   And I'm not sure if I'm saying what they should or shouldn't do.  Just from a "philosophical" standpoint, I don't like the concept.

 

In theory yeah, you would like any teams that are cheating to be caught BEFORE they play the game, so they can either be disqualified, or the appropriate action taken against them, and the cheaters would not have a chance to play in the game.

 

That's just not reality though. If they find out about the cheaters before the game, great, but teams that cheat try to hide their cheating ways and game officials can't go into a game expecting teams to cheat.

 

From what i have read, the cheating little league team submitted false paperwork (as to where the ineligible players lived) which is why it wasn't caught at first. Had they submitted the correct addresses of the ineligible players, it would have been caught BEFORE they even played a game.

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