Wild Video Shows Coach, Umpire Beat The Piss Out Of Each Other During Tense Little League Game

Smell that? I can. It smells like the beautiful sights and sounds of the Little League World Series, which is less than a month away. 

That's right. The greatest spectacle in all of sports is right around the corner. The battle between good and evil. America versus the World. A bunch of 12-year-olds – and some 17-year-olds posing as 12-year-olds – fighting against each other in Williamsport, Pa., for the title of 2024 Little League champions. 

It's one of the most pure sporting events of the entire year. And it's also one of the most intense. 

Every pitch matters. Every home run is vital. Every strikeout that much more important. Don't believe me?

Well, then let's all head out to Wilson, North Carolina, where we had an absolute knock-down fight break out earlier this week between a head coach and the home plate umpire at a state tournament game between Cherryville and Bull City:

This is the little league we need to get back to in America 

Oh yeah, baby! This is the America I grew up in. It's so pure. So primal. So perfect. 

Little League used to be so awesome. I loved it. Frankly, the 3-4 years of little league were probably the best times of my childhood. I don't remember a ton from back then, but I vividly remember little league. 

True story: one time my dad and grandpa nearly got into a fight with my buddy's dad and grandpa over some call on a random weekday in the middle of the season. 

I don't remember the specifics obviously, but I can still picture the four men standing face-to-face right outside the gate about ready to beat the piss out of each other. 

And they were all friends! Didn't matter, though. We lived and died with every pitch back then, but America got away from that somewhere along the way. We went through a solid decade of decline in the world of little league – thanks, travel ball – and it was brutal. 

Local little leagues just gutted. Shut down. No more interest, or pride, or free candy for bringing back the foul ball. Sad. 

But if this all-out brawl out of Wilson, North Carolina is any indication, I think we're back on track in this country. 

We have presidents surviving assassination attempts on Saturday, and little league dads beating the hell out of each other on Tuesday. It's the 1980s all over again, and we're all better for it.