Reply #21: Can the little league coaches stop the game Saturday until Bush sees her? [View All]

It's a long shot (very long shot, probably) but wouldn't it be great if the teams refused to take to the field until Bush spoke to her?

Can we try asking them to?

Maybe try appealing to the coaches and kids themselves, either directly or through letters to the editor?

Just imagine the teams sitting down in the middle of the field in protest...


Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch, Redefining 'Vacation'
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But in his first days away, Mr. Bush was relatively busy. He gave a speech on Wednesday in Grapevine, Tex., and met with the president of Colombia at the ranch on Thursday. He is to travel to New Mexico today, meet with his economic advisers and hold a news conference at the ranch tomorrow, travel to Illinois on Wednesday, meet with his foreign policy team and hold another news conference back at the ranch on Thursday, go to a Republican fund-raising lunch at a neighboring ranch on Friday and attend a Little League championship game in Waco, Tex., on Saturday.

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/politics/08letter.html



2005 Little League Baseball Regional Finals Schedule
(All times Eastern U.S.)

Saturday, August 13, 2005
(12) Southwest Region Championship, at Marvin Norcross Stadium, Little League Baseball Southwest Leadership Training Center, Waco, Texas, 9 p.m., ESPN
http://www.littleleague.org/media/2005regionalfinalsschedule.asp



Endless summer

As they head to regional action, the Eastdale seventh-graders just want to play ball, and they hope their season goes on and on

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That innocence still prevails among the seventh-graders who play for the Eastdale Little League Majors All-Star team, bound for the regional tournament in Waco, Texas.

More:
http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/sp_prep_sports/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19875_3980475,00.html


Major all-stars prepare for regionals
By WES WOLFE / Staff Reporter Thursday, August 4, 2005 3:19 PM CDT


Practicing in the sweltering Texas heat Wednesday, the Washington County major baseball all-stars continued their trek to a possible spot in the Little League World Series, but the team has to win the Southwest Region first.

Despite the possibility of playing on national television if they make it to the regional championship, Washington County manager Mark Bentke said that the all-stars are treating the upcoming tournament like any other.

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Washington County enters the Southwest regional going up against teams representing Albuquerque, N.M., Biloxi, Miss. and Tulsa, Okla. in the initial round-robin games. If the team gets out of those three games with one or no losses, it will move on to the regional tournament, which is single-elimination. Their first game is against Eastdale, of Albuquerque, at 1 p.m. Sunday at Marvin Norcross Stadium in Waco.

More:
http://www.brenhambanner.com/articles/2005/08/04/sports/sports001.txt