This kid is a little leaguer?!?!?!?!

[Rufio181]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060821/..._little_league

The 13-year-old first baseman for Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, stands an imposing 6-foot-8 and weighs 256 pounds.

"I was standing next to him and I was up to his elbows," Scott Kingery, a 12-year-old, 4-foot-9 Phoenix shortstop, said after meeting Durley.

At the secluded dorms where teams stay during the tournament, Durley has become as much of an attraction as the pool, the pingpong table and the video arcade.

This kid is almost Shaq and only 13 (supposedly)!

[Halladay_is_God]

my cousin who's 9 years old stands at least 6'0

[DravenX]

That is just huge. I wish I was that tall.

[MarinersFan87]

That team is full of freaks. Another kid was 6'3, 190, the funny thing was he almost got taken deep by some 85 pounds kid from the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

[redsfan28]

Can someone say... Danny Almonte!!!

Check his birth certificate, please.

[rockin500]

Can someone say... Danny Almonte!!!

Check his birth certificate, please.

they did last year. it was legit last year too.

[brewersfan19]

Since this is the "smack" forum. And we are the topic of Little League Baseball... Hear about the coach that slap his player in the face for dropping a "f" bomb in a team huddle... How does everyone feel about that?

[Dam8610]

He should try to become a pitcher. He'd get great angles on the ball.

As for the coach, I'd kick him out if the team could find a replacement quickly enough. Hitting a child is inappropriate, even if he did curse.

[rockin500]

He should try to become a pitcher. He'd get great angles on the ball.

As for the coach, I'd kick him out if the team could find a replacement quickly enough. Hitting a child is inappropriate, even if he did curse.

eh it aint any worse than sending em running for miles on end. that happened to us in football if we swore. I think i'd rather be hit, all things considered.

[Wolfman]

When I played Little League, my team got a BIG surprise when the guy we thought was an assistant coach turned out to be 11 and a teammate. He was 6'3'' and 195 lbs. His father carried his birth certificate to every game because no one believed that he was only 11. Being big that young had its drawbacks. His coordination had not caught up to his size. He lead our league in 3 categories: Home Runs (if he connected, it was usually gone); Stikeouts (he couldn't adjust his swing too well); Ground Rule Triples (1 - He hit the ball so hard once that the ball went through the plywood fence. The umpires and coaches initially could not agree to what the hit was, a homer or double. The umps first call was a HR, but the opposing coach complained correctly that the ball did not go over the fence. The umps felt that since the ball did not bounce over the fence, that the hit should be a triple)