From: stanm@comm.mot.com (Stan Macasieb)
Subject: Re: More LLWS News!!!
Reply-To: stanm@comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:26:01 GMT

In article 0@mpl.ucsd.edu, francis@mpl.ucsd.edu (Francis C Felizardo) writes:
>In article <1992Aug30.123720.3720@news.cs.brandeis.edu> mfrancis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Ma. Elena Y. Francisco) writes:
>
>>I just heard from a friend that Zamboanga City *pounded* Long
>>Beach, 15-4!!!!!!!  Any more details about this?

Little League World Series Championship, Saturday at Lamade Field, 
   Williamsport, PA

Zamboanga City, Philippines 15, Long Beach, CA 4

W-Tolentino, L-Beaver, HR-Tolentino, Stuart

>
>1. I liked the very positive coverage of the Philippine team. We also 
>watched the 'Road to the World Series' feature ABC had earlier and 
>ABC went out of it's way to paint the Philippine team as a Cinderella 
>team. It almost seemed like we got more coverage and publicity than the 
>Long Beach team did. Very little was said about the Long Beach team's back-
>ground. You'd almost think ABC was rooting for our team.

I think it was evened out in the half-hour pregame when I saw quite
a bit of Sean Burroughs, son of AL MVP Jeff Burroughs. But, yes, the
Cinderella angle was, to be expected, played up.

>
>2. My biggest complaint - the numerous commercials between innings. There 
>were so many that they were unable to cover the whole game. Granted the game 
>was over well before inning 6 but I wouldn't mind seeing the reaction of 
>the Philippine team and fans at the outcome.

More than your usual # of commercials, but, given the offensive attack by
the Filipinos, I don't think that shaving a minute off each half inning,
10 mins total, would've made a difference. The promised update from
ABC News didn't have a result, so the Filipinos must've been still been
on the attack.

Besides, it gave ABC a reason to cut away from an "insignificant" game.
The only people who would care about this game were the Philippine fans,
and, in their opinion, it wasn't worth seeing the US entry get pounded.
Again.

>
>3. A minor comment - shouldn't they have played the Philippine national 
>anthem before the game began? I'm not sure what the protocol is but I 
>always thought you were supposed to play your foreign honored guests' 
>national anthem.
>

I thought so, too, but I'm guessing it had never been done before, even for
the Taiwanese all these years.

Finally, the glass slipper has arrived and Cinderella beat midnight by a
long country mile. Or should I say kilometer? :)

Is this victory by the Zamboanga City All-Stars an indicator of things
to come for Little League Baseball in the Philippines? Can we expect
to see less and less of Chinese Taipei at the Big Dance?

Somehow, I could care less about such questions. Even if the RP never sends
another entry into the WS, this one team in this year has given their
country and its people around the world something to crow about. 

Re-Peat, Re-Peat!!

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--Stan Macasieb (stanm@comm.mot.com)              | Zamboanga City,
--Motorola, Land Mobile Products Sector           |   Philippines: 1992
--Schaumburg, IL (just another suburb of Chicago) |   Little League WS Champs
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