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re: My Non-travel ball playing nephew just made the HS baseball team
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:22 am to hendersonshands
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:22 am to hendersonshands
quote:Mainly because travel ball has become so watered down the competition is much like what they would find at their local parks. You still have teams that require tryouts and only select the best but many travel ball teams is just a coach who found a few parents willing to pay out the arse so their kids can have a custom jersey.
Well it is a knock on travel ball because parents are paying thousands of dollars for their kids to get the best instruction, rather than $50 at their local park, and they're not really getting that.
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:29 am to tduecen
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Mainly because travel ball has become so watered down the competition is much like what they would find at their local parks. You still have teams that require tryouts and only select the best but many travel ball teams is just a coach who found a few parents willing to pay out the arse so their kids can have a custom jersey.
There are huge travel programs here in the St Louis metro. They all have like 4 teams in each age group, until the high school teams. Those require tryouts. So they soak the parents for as long as they can before culling out the terrible ones.
It's a pretty big racket.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:30 am to tduecen
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Mainly because travel ball has become so watered down the competition is much like what they would find at their local parks.
LOL, not even remotely close.
I hate travel ball, but there is a night and day difference in the competition. There just is.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 11:58 am to tduecen
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Mainly because travel ball has become so watered down the competition is much like what they would find at their local parks. You still have teams that require tryouts and only select the best but many travel ball teams is just a coach who found a few parents willing to pay out the arse so their kids can have a custom jersey.
This. "Travel ball" has become "Daddy ball," especially over the last decade. Regardless of sport, it's not the team you play for, it's what you invest in it and get out of it, and it starts with coaching. Many of the kids playing travel ball or elite baseball get burned out and end up quitting in HS. Also, some kids develop later than others and pass up the ones that were once the dominant players for that age. This hold true for any sport really.
Posted on 6/1/16 at 4:38 pm to tduecen
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Mainly because travel ball has become so watered down the competition is much like what they would find at their local parks. You still have teams that require tryouts and only select the best but many travel ball teams is just a coach who found a few parents willing to pay out the arse so their kids can have a custom jersey.
this is very true. When I was growing up (I'm from a large metro area fwiw), there were only a handful of travel baseball teams in the area. By the time my younger cousins were playing around 8-10 years later it seemed like there were at least a couple dozen teams in the area and they played twice as many games. I think it's gotten rather ridiculous. IIRC we played, on average, 3 games a week and had 2 practices a week. I thought that was a lot
This post was edited on 6/1/16 at 4:39 pm
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