It begins Friday. An entire city will come to a standstill. Over 40,000 will pack a baseball stadium. "Bleacher creatures" will battle over home run balls. Young men in baggy uniforms will play their hearts out in search of victory. The winners will become local heroes. Losers and their followers may need years of therapy to recover. Red Sox-Yankees? Nah! Something much bigger. We're talking Little League World Series. It's amazing how crazy this thing's gotten. What started as a cute and cozy little event has morphed into a sporting spectacle Don King would be proud of. Tickets are scalped. Hotel rooms disappear faster than a $20 bill at the gas pump. Inside Lamade stadium, vendors hawk souvenirs. Every game is televised by ESPN. Major league announcers call the shots. Mistakes and losses lead to close-ups of crying youngsters.