re: Youth Coaches - Cutting a Player

I'm amazed at the effort and energy put into some of these responses. There is no such thing as competitive youth baseball and if you think there is, you're ignorant. Kids like to play and like to win sure, but do you really think they give a shite 20 min later if the result is a loss? Give them Dairy Queen and an Xbox and they are over it. It's not like Derek Jeter who uses the ALCS loss as motivation for the next year.

I get top tier kids need to play at a top level, I was one of them, but suggesting it must be done anytime before high school is comical. There were kids who didn't belong on my travel team in hs just as much as those who didn't belong on my city team as a kid. Regardless if you keep them on the team or cut them, don't be the guy who is talking about a 6inning district thriller when your son is 25.