Amman Little League Baseball on Al Jazeera!

This Friday, in addition to photographers capturing images of little leaguers for team photos, we saw some serious camera-men/persons? shooting parts of the games and interviewing players. I thought “Well, I guess the local newspapers finally decided baseball was a newsworthy item!”.

Well, it was a bigger deal than just that! Desertmom called to say it was none other than Al Jazeera, in the flesh. They interviewed Munir Odeh and David Nuqul about the game and their involvement. Hope they noticed they EXTREME commitment of parents, who froze and endured windy dust on par with salon exfoliation treatment to cheer their kids on.

Glory be. I hope no one told them how many coaches are Americans and, horrors, some even Evangelical Christians; it may never get on the air. OK, I’m being unduly snarky, please forgive me :). I am just glad they saw the value of the sport for Jordanian kids enough to cover it. Hopefully no conspiracy-theorists will catch that most of the moms bring artery-clogging Planet Donuts for post-game snack.

OK, but what I’m REALLY happy about is that they found out about it through a magazine article. As far as I know, I’m they only one ever haven written on the subject so far, during my short but bitter-sweet tenure with Family Flavours Magazine (the 7iber folk kindly posted it here, too).

Heh-heh. Tickles me, indeed. Can’t wait to tell my my US-bound friends I inspired Al-Jazeerah. Must be a slow features week.

I don’t know when it will be aired. Let me know if you see it!