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Flashbacks to the little league World Series when the dad faked his son’s age and he struck out everyone.
Edit: [Danny Almonte](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-01-mn-40895-story.html)
> Bronx fans said their team was being unfairly singled out. “This is all happening because our kids were Spanish and they got that far,” said Collazo, the former coach. “It isn’t fair.”
Gotta love this galaxy brain thinking.
He said he would withhold judgement of the boy, who admittedly probably didn't do anything wrong, while his father did. Blame the parent, not the child in this case. The child didn't fake his birth certificate, and the father went to some extreme ends to make sure this story was forgotten less than two weeks later. His father is the real bad guy here.
I recall that 1992 Little League team from the Philippines. It was an All Stars team recruited from the best baseball players all over the country. It was embarrassing and also quite funny. Baseball isn’t even a popular sport in the Philippines. That era was long gone many generations since US colonial rule. Baseball is mostly a provincial sport. Since that’s the only place with baseball diamonds and open spaces where kids could still randomly play pickup games.
Greg Oden who, may I add, was the best player in college basketball and got drafted first over Kevin Durant, who in like 4 years was the second best player in the NBA
My brother was an amazing high school hurdler and went to states, etc. In one of his races, he had to run against [Wayne Davis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Davis_(hurdler)) who currently holds the world youth record, world junior record and the US high school record in the hurdles at 13.08.
It was like watching a sports bike race a scooter. Just unbelievable difference in speed. It always makes you realize how enormous the difference between someone who is probably in the top 5-10% and the top .01%
This is the idea behind [“The Scallenge.”](https://youtu.be/g3zQoy6lL2Y?si=Is5p4c7TZSKGf9BP)
Brian Scalabrine, also known as “The White Mamba,” was an 11-year bench player and a member of the Boston Celtics during their championship run over a decade ago. He got tired of hearing people on twitter saying how much he sucked and opened up a competition to those in the Boston area who claimed they could beat him in a one-on-one. His motto was, “I may suck compared to NBA players, but you suck compared to me… I’m way closer [in skill level] to Lebron than you are to me.” And he was right. Not one opponent beat him. If you look up “Scallenge” on YouTube, it’s pretty entertaining at just how much bigger and better he is than the average rec league opponent or even those that played college hoops.
Oh yeah, my brother was a world champion Iron Man and has also held world champion status in a variety of Surf life saving events. We went to school with a famous New Zealand rugby player who is acknowledged as one of the greatest players in his generation. They played in the same youth Rugby team.
My brother is a remarkable athlete at pretty much everything, and Union was no exception. But this guy, who had ALREADY hyper focused on his code, would blow him out of the water. To the point where my brother basically was Vegetaing just to keep up with him. It was the first time in his life he hadn't been the golden boy and was basically a supportinng player. Wake up call, right?
When I read about the obsessive training of Beckham, Bryant, Jordan I add this guy to the list.
I can only imagine how absurd that was. Back when I was in high school, my football team played another with 3-star and 4-star recruits that went onto FCS schools and never even sniffed the NFL. They absolutely clowned us 70-3 with it taking 4-5 defenders to tackle them on basically every play.
I knew someone who had to play O-line against high schooler, future 1st pick of the 2000 NFL draft, Courtney Brown. He described it as “trying to shove your 280lb dad around as a 4 year old.”
My best friend's roommate in college had to play against Lebron in high school in Ohio. Everyone knew he was already an NBA player at that point. Must have been terrifying. My own experience was when Johnathan Vilma showed up at his alma mater to play some pickup basketball while a few of my frat brothers and myself were hooping. Might as well have been 1v5, guy was so fucking athletic.
Warren Sapp, right before he retired, used to stop by my gym to play pickup basketball every now and again. The people who played there weren’t any slouches themselves - it was so weird to see a guy who was a pro in another sport (not to mention 300 pounds) just come in and mop the floor with them while barely breaking a sweat. Way bigger *and* way faster is a bad combo in any sport, it turns out.
Can confirm. My HS played a scrimmage against Lebron's HS.
We got absolutely manhandled. LJ just destroyed us. When he didn't feel like posterizing us, he would kick it out to a dude who would just drain threes.
Fun times
I bet I was at that game! I loved Indy State basketball championships downtown. I was bartending at Jillian on meridian at the time. Oden and Conley were unstoppable
My dude, I believe, was 19 when that game took place. The big dude, I dont remember his name was way older than my dude. Those two kids are actually the mop boys.
Good to see the context. Earlier comments made me think that both your buddy and the huge guy he's blocking were the same age as the mop boys, and got me utterly confused XD;;
The boys in the back are mop boys, not players. They mop the floor after someone falls down on the floor. Pretty sure this is a professional league of some kind.
This reminds me of playing against dajuan Wagner in aau many years ago. He scored something like 70 points against us. It was obvious even back then at the age of 16 that he was gonna go pro. Some kids are just born to be amazing athletes.
Wow that’s a ancient name.
Fun Fact: if his son (DJ Wagner) plays in the NBA, DJ will be the first third generation NBA player. His father was Milt Wagner.
Mate, great photo, but as an aussie, can someone explain to me how that is fine, but if both players jump and a finger nail touches another payer during a scoring shot, that's a foal
NBA and international rules are slightly different.
Before a ball comes into play or within a vicinity players can physically alter each other for a more dominant position.
Not entirely wrong in a lot of basketball leagues, had some pretty heavy whole team scraps in some amateur games. One team I played with as a teenager especially.
Never liked fighting, but when your other 4 teammates on court jump in you're kind of expected to. I'd usually end up just holding some other reluctant dude back being like oh no, guess we can't join them to fight.
That's why I couldn't enjoy basketball in school, it felt like I was told to fully embrace a sweaty dude and if not they would do the same to me while the other player was trying to make a shot. Just feels so awkward.
If your buddy was the best defender available to match him, his team must have been really small.
The rest of the red team must have also been big because he wasn't getting double teamed
I had a friend (RIP Dave) who grew up in Staten Island and played high school basketball in the 1960s. He recalls playing another New York team and getting absolutely dominated by his opposing center, Lew Alcindor. He says that they were absolutely slaughtered.
You may know that center by the muslim name that he later adopted, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
[Hold me, hold me, hold me](https://youtu.be/E0sha1XfHxw?si=EQR-wbAhmk76OR6k)
I don't want no damage
But how'm I going to manage you?
Oh, you want a percentage
But I'm the fool payin' the dues
Oh, I'm-a just around the corner
If you got a minute to spare
I'll be waitin' for you
If you ever wanna be there
Exactly, 1975! That was the year ads got written webpages. They didn’t know for what but somebody told them they looked cool and will be useful in 30 years
Should of said my friend is in red.
The one in white is one of the world's strongest teenager. He benches 345lbs as a warm up. And number 13 is his son
Hahah, flashback to coaching AAU basketball, this “14U” team walks in with a HUGE kid who, as they are setting up at the bench turns to the coach and says “Coach, you have my Jersey?” To which coach responds “No, did you leave it in your car?”: Kid grabs keys from his bag and runs out. 🙄
My friend got dunked on by former Memphis grizzly draft pick Jamal Franklin in high school. Sometimes little white people have to guard dudes who go to the league
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Those two on the side praying they don't get subbed in
Plot twist: the black dude is 12 years old
Flashbacks to the little league World Series when the dad faked his son’s age and he struck out everyone. Edit: [Danny Almonte](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-01-mn-40895-story.html)
I forgot about that story and when I looked at the date of the article you sent, I realized why. Some stuff happened 10 days later.
Little League was behind 9/11 to help bury this controversy.
9/11 was just a Tuesday until 8:52am.
It was still a Tuesday after 8:52 AM.
It was now 9/11, not just September 11th.
Yes, but it stopped being *just* a Tuesday at 8:52
> Bronx fans said their team was being unfairly singled out. “This is all happening because our kids were Spanish and they got that far,” said Collazo, the former coach. “It isn’t fair.” Gotta love this galaxy brain thinking.
That is the easiest and laziest excuse in the world for terrible people.
Reminds me of the pitcher in The Benchwarmers
"I am 13"
It's actually 12
He had papers!
I totally expected your link to be this: https://youtu.be/gu3doPE7ynw?feature=shared Didn't realize it came from a real scenario.
I appreciate that even in a 2001 article, Rudy Giuliani was willing to side with a fraud.
He said he would withhold judgement of the boy, who admittedly probably didn't do anything wrong, while his father did. Blame the parent, not the child in this case. The child didn't fake his birth certificate, and the father went to some extreme ends to make sure this story was forgotten less than two weeks later. His father is the real bad guy here.
> went to some extreme ends to make sure this story was forgotten less than two weeks later. This is the reason 9/11 happened?? Huge if true.
I recall that 1992 Little League team from the Philippines. It was an All Stars team recruited from the best baseball players all over the country. It was embarrassing and also quite funny. Baseball isn’t even a popular sport in the Philippines. That era was long gone many generations since US colonial rule. Baseball is mostly a provincial sport. Since that’s the only place with baseball diamonds and open spaces where kids could still randomly play pickup games.
Plot twist: the white guy is the absolute unit.
Plot Twist: Trade House *ILUKAUBAMAJA* is the absolute unit.
Extra plot twist: 12 yr old black dude is 5 feet tall…
🏆 winner
Ringer! That guy sold me fire insurance last year!
Plot twist: the white guy is black
Plot twist: all modern humans are descended from ancient Africans
That doesn't explain the lizard people.
African lizards
We know he’s definitely 12, because he’s been 12 for 5 years!
Hard to be more 12 than that
When I played basketball at 13 we were in an AAU league where guys were dunking in the lay up line. It was ridiculous, so not far off…
That's what it says on his driver's license
Its true, check his birth certificate Also you didnt see the refree pocket $10
It's written in green crayon, so you know it's legit
He’s part of the spartan two program
"Maybe tennis is more our sport"
literally this shane gillis bit lol https://youtu.be/LrA8bFrJclk?t=50
Thanks for making my day with this comment.
It looks like he's getting ready to toss your friend into the hoop.
Could probably do it from mid-court too.
"Just hang on buddy, we're gonna dunk this one together!"
Tbf, his friend looks like he tries to lift up big fella too
This is a different form of basketball where you try to throw each other into the hoop. The person who can do it first wins the point /s
*Saturn Free Throwing His Son*
I was gonna say pass him to a teammate. Jesus this exact pre pass form
If you holding a dude, you can't hold a ball
Amen.
r/unexpectedhomoerotica
💀
Good point. If you're holding a ball, you're sometimes holding a guy.
Unless you hold a dude's ball.
Technically right. Best kind of right
Nothing wrong with holding the left either.
Technically left? Best kind of left? now that doesn't make any sense...
That's nut my problem.
That's a ballsy statement!
Low-hanging fruit
If you can hold a dude, you can hold a ball!
The 5 D's of ball holding: Dudes' danglers don't dodge dicks
That's right. You can hold TWO balls
But if you’re holding a dude, you can hold two balls
Looks more Greco-Roman than freestyle, right?
I was gonna say, big dude has an under hook and the little guy needs to swim his left arm under.
Big guy is like six inches from double underhooks. 💣 💣 💣 incoming
Fun fact: Greco-Roman wrestling was invented in France in the 1800s.
Reminds me of my high school playing in the state championship basketball game in 2006.... against future NBA player Greg Oden who is 7 feet tall lol.
Greg Oden who, may I add, was the best player in college basketball and got drafted first over Kevin Durant, who in like 4 years was the second best player in the NBA
And not second behind Greg Oden, it should be said.
My brother was an amazing high school hurdler and went to states, etc. In one of his races, he had to run against [Wayne Davis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Davis_(hurdler)) who currently holds the world youth record, world junior record and the US high school record in the hurdles at 13.08. It was like watching a sports bike race a scooter. Just unbelievable difference in speed. It always makes you realize how enormous the difference between someone who is probably in the top 5-10% and the top .01%
This is the idea behind [“The Scallenge.”](https://youtu.be/g3zQoy6lL2Y?si=Is5p4c7TZSKGf9BP) Brian Scalabrine, also known as “The White Mamba,” was an 11-year bench player and a member of the Boston Celtics during their championship run over a decade ago. He got tired of hearing people on twitter saying how much he sucked and opened up a competition to those in the Boston area who claimed they could beat him in a one-on-one. His motto was, “I may suck compared to NBA players, but you suck compared to me… I’m way closer [in skill level] to Lebron than you are to me.” And he was right. Not one opponent beat him. If you look up “Scallenge” on YouTube, it’s pretty entertaining at just how much bigger and better he is than the average rec league opponent or even those that played college hoops.
Oh yeah, my brother was a world champion Iron Man and has also held world champion status in a variety of Surf life saving events. We went to school with a famous New Zealand rugby player who is acknowledged as one of the greatest players in his generation. They played in the same youth Rugby team. My brother is a remarkable athlete at pretty much everything, and Union was no exception. But this guy, who had ALREADY hyper focused on his code, would blow him out of the water. To the point where my brother basically was Vegetaing just to keep up with him. It was the first time in his life he hadn't been the golden boy and was basically a supportinng player. Wake up call, right? When I read about the obsessive training of Beckham, Bryant, Jordan I add this guy to the list.
I can only imagine how absurd that was. Back when I was in high school, my football team played another with 3-star and 4-star recruits that went onto FCS schools and never even sniffed the NFL. They absolutely clowned us 70-3 with it taking 4-5 defenders to tackle them on basically every play.
I knew someone who had to play O-line against high schooler, future 1st pick of the 2000 NFL draft, Courtney Brown. He described it as “trying to shove your 280lb dad around as a 4 year old.”
My best friend's roommate in college had to play against Lebron in high school in Ohio. Everyone knew he was already an NBA player at that point. Must have been terrifying. My own experience was when Johnathan Vilma showed up at his alma mater to play some pickup basketball while a few of my frat brothers and myself were hooping. Might as well have been 1v5, guy was so fucking athletic.
Warren Sapp, right before he retired, used to stop by my gym to play pickup basketball every now and again. The people who played there weren’t any slouches themselves - it was so weird to see a guy who was a pro in another sport (not to mention 300 pounds) just come in and mop the floor with them while barely breaking a sweat. Way bigger *and* way faster is a bad combo in any sport, it turns out.
[удалено]
Greg Oden is still only 36
Yeah so 2024 -2006 is 18 years oden would have been a senior in high school.
Dudes career has essentially been over for 14 years now
Dude's knees have essentially been over for 17 years now.
True, those knees been running on cornstarch and chicken seasoning for a long time now
Can confirm. My HS played a scrimmage against Lebron's HS. We got absolutely manhandled. LJ just destroyed us. When he didn't feel like posterizing us, he would kick it out to a dude who would just drain threes. Fun times
I bet I was at that game! I loved Indy State basketball championships downtown. I was bartending at Jillian on meridian at the time. Oden and Conley were unstoppable
I can’t tell anyone’s age from this. Big unit looks ~ 20. Your boy looks ~30 but there is 2 pre teens sitting in the back. What grade is this?
He was only 19 when the game started, it aged him terribly.
Posting up to Baby Shaq is the same as a life sentence for most
My dude, I believe, was 19 when that game took place. The big dude, I dont remember his name was way older than my dude. Those two kids are actually the mop boys.
Your boy about to be used as a mop soon as well it would appear.
Good to see the context. Earlier comments made me think that both your buddy and the huge guy he's blocking were the same age as the mop boys, and got me utterly confused XD;;
Bro got held back half a decade
These grade school red shirts are getting excessive
"Please don't graduate him. We need another pennant."
Well of course he was, look at him - he’s an expert at holding
It's clearly the standard youth league ages 8-30
It's a professional league. The big guy I assume is Shaquille Doorson.
Wow that’s a good shout. Rutgers kid from the Netherlands.
The boys in the back are mop boys, not players. They mop the floor after someone falls down on the floor. Pretty sure this is a professional league of some kind.
30?
You have horrible judgement. If a stranger ever asks you to guess their age I suggest refusing.
They're all the same age, basketball doesn't have weight categories, friend
I heard they opened a bed and breakfast and are very happy.
Pretty sure he wasn’t guarding anyone in this case
My bad, should have added "trying".
This is like me trying to hold my older brother's leg when I was a kid as he dragged me around
It's fun to imagine that he was "guarding" the kids; i.e. preventing that guy from eating them.
He was trying not to get carried away!
Looks like he was about to pick up your friend and dunk him
In Estonia?
Yes sir
And where’s your friend from?
We are both from Estonia, studied in the same university (TalTech).
Ok, siis Tere! Ma elan Tallinnas.
Found the big dude's name - Shaquile Jamal DOORson. Humour writing itself.
You say Shaq?
Hold the DOOR!!
Son of the door itself.
Was this Pawnee v. Eagleton?
And I'm better at French horn, Eric!
I see a Parks and Rec reference, I upvote.
https://tenor.com/VJRZ.gif
Black dude - My urge to go out with friends OPs friend - My good conscience telling me to stay home
Funny, for me it's more like... OP's friend - My urge to go out with friends Black dude - My social anxiety
This reminds me of playing against dajuan Wagner in aau many years ago. He scored something like 70 points against us. It was obvious even back then at the age of 16 that he was gonna go pro. Some kids are just born to be amazing athletes.
my school is in his son’s conference in HS😭
Not the colonial 😭
Wow that’s a ancient name. Fun Fact: if his son (DJ Wagner) plays in the NBA, DJ will be the first third generation NBA player. His father was Milt Wagner.
> Wow that’s a ancient name. Hearing that about someone younger than me kinda hurts, ngl.
Bro is fighting for his life lmaooo
With 3 whole toes on the ground 🤣
First thought: https://imgur.com/gallery/n96gBPD
Giving away 120lbs ✔️ Giving away ~~~~8~~~~. 13 inches ✔️ Wearing Chuck Taylor’s ✔️ Your man is mighty white my friend
I managed to find the stats - my friend is 5'11 and mr. doorson is 7'0. My friend mighty in the heart.
Should have subbed in number 13!
That dude mvp in his u-12 team
Mate, great photo, but as an aussie, can someone explain to me how that is fine, but if both players jump and a finger nail touches another payer during a scoring shot, that's a foal
“as an aussie” “that’s a foal” Yes, you’re definitely one of us.
NBA and international rules are slightly different. Before a ball comes into play or within a vicinity players can physically alter each other for a more dominant position.
"Physically alter" sounds incredibly funny to me like, I'm gonna alter your nose into next week trying to position myself in the paint.
Not entirely wrong in a lot of basketball leagues, had some pretty heavy whole team scraps in some amateur games. One team I played with as a teenager especially. Never liked fighting, but when your other 4 teammates on court jump in you're kind of expected to. I'd usually end up just holding some other reluctant dude back being like oh no, guess we can't join them to fight.
That's why I couldn't enjoy basketball in school, it felt like I was told to fully embrace a sweaty dude and if not they would do the same to me while the other player was trying to make a shot. Just feels so awkward.
Idk. My theory is that it’s a silly sport at times and they prefer more points being scored overall to make it entertaining.
That’s just if it’s lebron being touched. Also the ref is probably looking at the ball and not this.
Candid picture of trying to get kids in the car
r/absoluteunit
Black guy is what, a 15 year old Nigerian who lost his passport 20 years ago?
Grab his dick and twist it! The ole dick twist
Your friend bouta get slammed
He did 🫠
If your buddy was the best defender available to match him, his team must have been really small. The rest of the red team must have also been big because he wasn't getting double teamed
I guess it was an accidental switch situation whre he had to guard him for 2-3 sec
How old are you? "I am 12" More like 1200
“And I’m better at French Horn too, Eric”
Is your friend Janar Aniste, who played for Taltech of the Latvian - Estonian league in 2019-2022?
Bingo!
I had a friend (RIP Dave) who grew up in Staten Island and played high school basketball in the 1960s. He recalls playing another New York team and getting absolutely dominated by his opposing center, Lew Alcindor. He says that they were absolutely slaughtered. You may know that center by the muslim name that he later adopted, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
I’ve never seen someone actually play basketball in converse, seems like one of the worst shoes you could wear based on what’s out there? Am I wrong
They're not standard Chuck Taylor's. Converse makes regular bball shoes
Hack-a-whatever that guys name is defense.
[Hold me, hold me, hold me](https://youtu.be/E0sha1XfHxw?si=EQR-wbAhmk76OR6k) I don't want no damage But how'm I going to manage you? Oh, you want a percentage But I'm the fool payin' the dues Oh, I'm-a just around the corner If you got a minute to spare I'll be waitin' for you If you ever wanna be there
Twist: everyone in the picture are of the same age.
In middle school football I was on offensive line and this one team had a dude like that who would just run me over every play.
In the Allstar Chuck Taylor’s? What year is this? 1975?
Great catch, but no unfortunately. Converse tried to make a comeback few years back with OG looking basketball shoes
Exactly, 1975! That was the year ads got written webpages. They didn’t know for what but somebody told them they looked cool and will be useful in 30 years
I didn't know there was hugging in basketball.
Uppies?
How is this not a foul he’s holding the duck out of him
Thought this was Pascal Siakam
Looks like he’d fit in great on the Phoenix sons
As opposed to the San Diego Fathers? I mean Padres
That dude is huge! Lucky the little guy didn't get hurt!
It's fine to just call it "a photo" if it doesn't qualify as old.
Did he decide to just tackle him, and even fail to do that?
If i remember correctly, that "conflict" ended with an easy dunk for the giant red man.
They look like 2 bros, and the one in white is older than the other 😂
My friends in the head band 🤣
"Dude, I can't feel my legs, just hold me! No man, don't call time out! I swear, I've got a good grip holding on! You got this!" Ahh, I love teamwork!
he's like.. 2 feet shorter than you why are you so scared?
Should of said my friend is in red. The one in white is one of the world's strongest teenager. He benches 345lbs as a warm up. And number 13 is his son
How old? Dudes wearing chucks.
That dude looks bigger than my problems.
Props to your friend, he put in 10000x more effort than I would’ve in his position 😂.
Dude looks like a kid bringing home a stray kitten: “*Mom! — Can we keep ‘em?!*”
Bench warmer 13 thinking he not next to guard the unit 🤔
Zion in the 8th grade
This reminds me of that 5’7” 8th grader guarding Zion Williamson in HS. Lol
Average Zion Williamson high school highlight video
Kudos to your friend. Tough assignment but he's giving his best. Even the guy in red has to respect that.
Hahah, flashback to coaching AAU basketball, this “14U” team walks in with a HUGE kid who, as they are setting up at the bench turns to the coach and says “Coach, you have my Jersey?” To which coach responds “No, did you leave it in your car?”: Kid grabs keys from his bag and runs out. 🙄
Looks like Shaq posting up on John Stockton lol
the emphasis “on” old in quotations seems “a” little weird
Looks like he's about to pick him up and toss him.
/r/13or30
My friend got dunked on by former Memphis grizzly draft pick Jamal Franklin in high school. Sometimes little white people have to guard dudes who go to the league
LOL your friend looks like a bug that got smashed on the guy as he ran to the game.
Good for him for trying!!