It doesn’t get any more pathetic than watching the LLWS
by Sean Beckwith from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#6DPQQ)
It's mostly accurate that youth sports are the last true, untainted brand of competition. Children are too naive to grasp the concept of money, and too preoccupied with having fun to care about the result, so they just run around and chase a ball for all the character-building reasons, but largely to burn off energy....