Stardate 20010904.1003 (On Screen): The sad and disillusioning tale of Danny Almonte continues to unfold. The mystery
of why it was that he didn't attend school in the Bronx has been explained: he was actually in the Dominican Republic attending school. This means that he couldn't have played enough regular season games in the US to have qualified for the Little League World Series anyway. It's plausible that the American coach might have been fooled about Danny's age, as he claims, but there's no way he could have been fooled about this; it's clear now that he's crooked. The victims in this are the kids: the other kids on this team who tried to do a good job, and the kids on the teams who were eliminated by this team because it was cheating, and thus may not have gotten a chance to advance. It's also a shame because the next time an immigrant kid actually does do well, people will immediately ask if he's another Danny Almonte, and rather than cheering for him they'll be skeptical.
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