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US champions , Paseo Verde LL, take one last look at their field of dreams.

Who will take this photo next year?

After looking at the TV ratings of this years LLWS, it truly is remarkable… and it wasn’t just the TV ratings , there are more Facebook and Instagram pages dedicated to the LLWS than ever before … so if millions are watching on TV how many are watching and learning about things through social media. I don’t think there is a way for regular people to get a taste of fame like the LLWS … turning twelve year old boys and girls into mini- celebrities and role models.

Right now kids their age are trying to swing like Owen Guzman with back foot off the ground to bring the hips into the swing.

More Young girls with game are on the way

Kids who wear glasses are believing baseball is for them

And little leagues all over this country who have never been to the LLWS … are saying thanks to new rules … why not them … why can’t they be next

I have said , one team from NYC is going to capitalize on those rules and everything will change

Best of all , all the storylines from this year … especially the Bayonne story has everyone dreaming … anything is possible now.

What say you ?

Big ratings for LLWS

ESPN’s presentation of the 2026 Little League Baseball World Series, Presented by T-Mobile averaged 1.1M viewers across ABC, ESPN and ESPN2, according to Nielsen Big Data + Panel. Viewership increased 7% year over year and ranks as the most-watched Little League Baseball World Series since 2015.

The Little League Baseball World Series Championship Game between Curaçao and Henderson, Nevada, averaged 2.9M viewers on ABC, up 21% year over year. The telecast peaked at 3.7M viewers in the final quarter-hour.

The United States Championship Game averaged 2.5M viewers on ABC.

The International Championship Game averaged 1.6M viewers, up 27% year over year and ranking as the most-watched International Championship since 2023. The Consolation Game between Hamilton, Ohio, and Japan averaged 903K viewers, up 39% year over year and ranking as the most-watched Consolation Game since 2016.

Additionally, Hamilton, Ohio, versus Phenix City, Alabama on August 26, averaged 2.1M viewers, making it the most-watched non-championship Little League Baseball World Series game since 2021 and the most-watched ESPN telecast of the tournament since 2015.

Dreams and the dreamers who dream them

Curaçao won the Little League World Series.

And congratulations to them. They earned it.

But in the end, as strange as it sounds, who wins the LLWS is almost beside the point.

The Little League World Series itself is the important thing.

Because Williamsport is more than a tournament. It is a dream. And dreams have value long before they ever come true.

Somewhere tonight there is an eight-year-old kid throwing a baseball against a garage door, imagining that someday he will be standing on that mound in Williamsport.

There is a little girl taking another hundred swings because she watched someone who looked like her play on that field and suddenly something that seemed impossible doesn’t seem impossible anymore.

There are kids who wear glasses who maybe thought sports weren’t really for them.

Then they watch a kid wearing glasses help his team win the United States championship on the biggest Little League stage in the world.

And suddenly the thought changes.

Maybe I can play too.

Maybe I should give it a try.

That matters.

Because sometimes all a child needs is to see somebody who reminds them of themselves doing something they never thought they could do.

There are kids running another lap, taking another ground ball, getting up early for practice, learning how to be teammates, learning how to lose, learning how to try again.

All because somewhere in the distance there is Williamsport.

And how much is a dream like that worth?

I’ve heard stories through the years of kids facing surgeries or long recoveries, and one of the things motivating them on the other side was the thought:

I want to be ready for baseball season.

I want to get back on the field.

I want another chance to chase Williamsport.

Adults have used that same kind of motivation during difficult recoveries. Give somebody something out there in the future worth fighting toward and you’d be amazed what the human spirit can do.

So how much is motivation like that worth?

How much is it worth to give a child something that makes them work harder than they have ever worked before?

How much is it worth to teach them discipline without ever using the word discipline?

To teach friendship, courage, sacrifice, resilience and hope through a game?

Millions of children around the world will never actually make it to Williamsport.

That’s okay.

Because Williamsport may still help take them somewhere.

Maybe the work ethic they developed chasing that dream stays with them in school.

Maybe the confidence stays with them when life gets difficult.

Maybe the teammates become lifelong friends.

Maybe twenty years from now they won’t remember the score of some district tournament game, but they’ll remember being twelve years old, wearing a uniform, believing with everything they had that something wonderful might happen.

That’s what the Little League World Series really gives us.

Curaçao gets the championship banner.

But the dream belongs to everybody.

The race to the 2027 LLWS begins … now

CURAÇAO: World champs for 2026 and rightfully so. They were the best team all 14 of them and had the best player.