re: ULL Coach Robichaux discusses "Daddy Ball"

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The way you guys complain about youth baseball on here, I'm going to pray that my son is 6'6" and 230 so he can either play football or basketball. I don't I get that lucky though. Being that my wife played college softball that little cs will probably be the next coming of Jeter

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Baseball is probably the best youth sport a kid can play. However parents and travel ball have helped ruin it.

I grew up playing in rec leagues and so did pretty much all of my friends and we all enjoyed it. Then slowly some kids had their parents put them on select teams as the concept gained traction, but for the most part everyone I went to school with played in the rec league. Those who went the travel/select ball route either ended up hating baseball and quitting or not playing after high school.

The only one I knew who went the select route who ended up making anything of himself in baseball was Jordan Walden, I was good friends with him growing up, but even then he didn't go the select route until 5th grade. He made it to the majors but lets be real select ball had nothing to do with that, but the fact he could throw 100 MPH did. If you throw that hard it doesn't matter if you played rec league 100% growing up