ESPN to employ five-second delay

As some of you readers might already know last night a player on the Staten Island team issued a curse word on live TV. This was bad enough--but then his manager reportedly 'slapped' him when he heard the word. (Sorry I can't confirm this because I didn't see it.) 

This has led to an official reprimand from Little League Baseball and has caused ESPN to issue a five-second delay on all future Little Leauge World Series. It's sad...but the same constraints that have been institutued because of Janet Jackson and her wardrobe have now been brought to a Little League World Series broadcast.

But I think Lu Harrison makes a very good point in her post on "Should Microphones be in the dugout?" Should the mics have been there in the first place? Be sure to chime in with your own opinion.

Comments

No mics come is it really necessary!

why is it necessary?

[Lu]

The mics are on the manager and coaches and have not been turned off when they go into the dugout.

[George]

In reference to the discussion that was air during a little league game I happen to be watching on pitch count pilot for little league players that pitch. My response to this could be a simple one that can help all little league teams and players as a whole, I've been a little league coach for 10 years 7 years longer then when my son had exited the little as a player. I stayed because i enjoyed coaching and teaching players the game of baseball. I was affillated with the Toms River East Little Laegue that Won the World Series back in 1998 under Coach Mike Gaynor. Since leaving little league I have been coaching a travel baseball team with the majority of the same players I had coached during our little league run to williamsport back in 2002. The format we had adopted with our pitchers is to only allow them to throw max. pitches up to 65 or only let them go 3 innings at most this gives more kids a chance to pitch and also gives the coach's a chance to get more players playing time. still today we do not allow no more then 3 innings max. , most of the time 2 innings to a player on the mound because we want more pitchers involved in the game, at the same time more kids learn how to pitch, you never know what you have in a kid if you don't give him a chance to do something different. All the players rotate on my field every inning this also gives a kid the ability to learn other positions. We also bat through the lineup guaranteeing everyone to hit.In my opion This is where coach's learn how to coach better. I'm not here trying to tell coach's what to do or think I know everything about coaching, it is a format that I have adopted from being a little league coach and learning from my experience coaching younger kids, which I continue to instill in the kids I continue to coach today. Even though they are now 15/16 years of age, The kids know there roll and welcome the idea of how me and my coach's do things different from other coach's. Because they have done things with us that they never had gotten a chance to do before. At the same time it helps with saving a kid from hurting his or her arm arm.
Hopefully this could give some idea in what they may want to do or some direction in where little league may want to go with the pitching and playing rules.

[Frank Flores]

We all know that kids can say anything at the drop of a hat ...So I don't think it is a good idea to have the coaches or the kids miced...don't get me wrong I like the on the field feeling but we just saw and heard want can happen?