re: Who actually likes “travel ball”

My son plays football, baseball, and basketball in HS.

He doesn’t do travel ball as I don’t believe in what it does to our weekends and we go to church on Sundays. Also, there isn’t time bc of the other sports. However all his friends do. He’s the starting ss, closer, and bats #2 on his hs team.

He’s about to be driving and I’m going to get him a nice used truck for probably $35k. When the other parents give me crap about it I’m just going to tell them every weekend since he was 7 when they went out of town for a tournament I put $400 each time into an investment account. The truck paid for itself.

I don't know what it would take to change the rec ball situation, really.

The 9-10 year old leagues are still ok. A lot of the better kids are still there learning to pitch and getting live action.... but by 10 they start leaving at at 11....

The 11-12 rec leagues (at least ours) is just awful.

Now, there is a league here that runs a "bring your own team" league for the fall. Of course the kids all have to be "league age" but they only take full teams.

We did that this past fall and put together a really stout team. There were 2 other teams built like us and a 4th team that had a bunch of older bigger 12's and one of their pitchers was pretty stout. Games against those teams were pretty competitve and fun.

Maybe that's what it would take. "Bring your own team". And let coaches put together their own teams and compete... as long as the kids were of the right age group.

Bring your own team leagues are the answer and we’ve done those. It’s just the pettiness between teams makes most run from competition.

This grew over time and and more and more kids (by age 10 and 11) are gone from the local rec leagues and play exclusively tournament ball.

It's hard to get enough 11-12 kids to even make a league out here now. 3 teams. And one of this is gawd-awful bad

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As far as fatigue, how many times do I have to bring up the ArmCare.com device and app and explain to what it does? Our use a grip guns moneyed and a crane scale to test same thing, bill killer explains how for free on instagram

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So let me get this straight. Every weekend you put a kid on a grip machine to determine if his arm is rested enough to pitch?

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So let me get this straight. Every weekend you put a kid on a grip machine to determine if his arm is rested enough to pitch?

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The ArmCare.com does that for you. I don’t have it, we do hangs for time for grip strength and we do arm care daily. On game we use the radar to ensure we aren’t seeing more than 10% drop on average velo. We hardly ever reach the pitch limits for the pitchers, we limit curves or sliders to 5 and we try to limit pitching 2 days in a row even if within the limits.

I will be buying the ArmCare app before next season so to answer your question…you perform the assessment before the game. It tells you if you are good to pitch, should rest, or at increased risk of injury. Also gives you recommended arm care routine based on where you are weak.

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you perform the assessment before the game. It tells you if you are good to pitch, should rest, or at increased risk of injury.

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And you wonder why UCL injuries are up across the board? You trust a machine instead of just taking the side of caution. But whatever. Good luck. Mentally keep track of all those kids over the next decade and how many have TJ. I bet it’s over 33%.

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And you wonder why UCL injuries are up across the board? You trust a machine instead of just taking the side of caution. But whatever. Good luck. Mentally keep track of all those kids over the next decade and how many have TJ. I bet it’s over 33%

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Wtf are you talking about? A) the machine test what the mlb teams have been doing for a long time

B) I guess you missed my whole other post about doing other things and monitoring fatigue

How about we monitor how many cock suckers have an iq under 100 and continue to mouth off about things they are ignorant on? Because you would fit right in.

You just ran your mouth about a machine when you have no clue wtf it does, have no background on why those things matter etc etc.

I have a family that has this set-up

12 yr old son on a AAA 12U team
8 year old son on am 8U coaches pitch team
3 year old little man

The parents have a few options. Some weekends, only 1 kid plays.

Some weekends, both are playing. They usually divide and conquer. One parent goes with 12 and the other parent goes with 8.

Or - the 12 year old has been on the same team for a couple of years and once in a while, he'll stay Friday night with a teammate and they'll take him to Saturday's games.

But yes, its a strain on them. Bigtime. But both of their boys are REALLY good players.... so mom n dad do what they've gotta do.

And YES - they love it.

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I have a family that has this set-up 12 yr old son on a AAA 12U team 8 year old son on am 8U coaches pitch team 3 year old little man The parents have a few options. Some weekends, only 1 kid plays. Some weekends, both are playing. They usually divide and conquer. One parent goes with 12 and the other parent goes with 8. Or - the 12 year old has been on the same team for a couple of years and once in a while, he'll stay Friday night with a teammate and they'll take him to Saturday's games. But yes, its a strain on them. Bigtime. But both of their boys are REALLY good players.... so mom n dad do what they've gotta do. And YES - they love it.

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Same situation I’m in except oldest doesn’t play and others do. I can send my 10 year old with teammates. My parents and my wife’s mom go to lots of games, my parents go to ones out of town more, her mom locally.

Helps a ton. We just divide and conquer. Trust me, I would much rather be fishing and playing golf most weekends or hanging around the pool with a margarita but my kids absolutely love it so we sacrifice our time to support them in something they love. I do the same with my oldest in football and throwing in track.

If others think that kind of sacrifice for your kids is crazy…..that’s cool, just don’t get on here and lie about things to justify your decisions and to make yourself feel better about your choices as a parent.