You are about to get inundated with Little League Baseball for the next week or so, whether you like it or not.

Quite honestly, I don’t like it.

Oh, I don’t mind the concept of Little League baseball. It’s a great part of Americana; you know, the whole Norman Rockwell thing.

My objection of what has happened at the top end of Little League Baseball. For years, you could tune into ABC’s Wide World of Sports and catch the team from Taiwan dusting some American team that never had a chance. It was a one-shot, two-hour telecast and had a great deal of charm to go along with it. Especially when a USA would defy the odds and win the thing.

Not anymore. This proliferation of ESPN’s coverage of EVERY game at the Little League World Series has made it almost unwatchable.

Like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, networks need to learn there can be too much of a good thing. It is such cookie-cutter broadcasting; all they do is change out the teams and do it again. And again. And again.

You know it’s coming before every telecast starts — shots of little boys dancing with mascots, mommies being interviewed in the stands, kids sliding on pieces of cardboard down the hill behind the outfield fence and miked-up coaches who love showing how they can over-coach.

A couple of things you rarely see: (1) announcers saying the word “error” when a ball goes through the second baseman’s wickets and (2) good umpiring. We are constantly reminded that the umpire are volunteers, but the strike zones (especially on outside pitches) is beyond laughable. Even a volunteer should be able to see that.

I know they are all cute little boys and they come from all over the world to play in South Williamsport, Pa., as summer comes to a close, but it’s too much. And don’t get me started on how they also televise the semifinal games from the Great Lakes Regional.

Make it special. Show less of it.