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re: How many kids wish they lose in travel ball and tournaments?
Posted on 5/9/22 at 11:02 pm to Jyrdis
Posted on 5/9/22 at 11:02 pm to Jyrdis
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Those dads care more about their kid getting a scholarship
If this is ANY parents ultimate goal in any sport let me lend some words of advice. Take the $2-3000 a year spent on equipment, coaches, traveling, meals, uniforms and invest it for 18 years and there’s your scholarship. Don’t make your kid play sports if getting a scholarship is the end goal. Because your kid isn’t getting a scholarship 99.9% of the time. Then on top of that you end up making the kid hate the sport because you’ve turned it into a job.
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Posted on 5/9/22 at 11:05 pm to Byrdybyrd05
If a kid likes sports, there is no chance they try to lose. Ever. Just not in the DNA of a competitor. I would have played game after game after game, day after day after day.
I played so much basketball as a kid that my parents couldn’t get me to the dinner table. Hours and hours, millions of shots. I wasn’t out there playing for my parents and didn’t care if they were there, I was out there because I loved playing sports more than anything else.
I played so much basketball as a kid that my parents couldn’t get me to the dinner table. Hours and hours, millions of shots. I wasn’t out there playing for my parents and didn’t care if they were there, I was out there because I loved playing sports more than anything else.
Posted on 5/9/22 at 11:17 pm to Globetrotter747
Could you tell if the kids ever got tired of the game and wanted to lose in the playoffs? I remember my school on the northshore kinda hated the coaches / grind and usually wanted to lose for it to be over
Posted on 5/9/22 at 11:19 pm to Byrdybyrd05
Go read the travel ball threads on here. We have some psycho live through their kids lives dads on here. They probably hate baseball and their dad
Posted on 5/10/22 at 12:41 am to Byrdybyrd05
You want to get a kid an almost guaranteed scholarship? Get them involved in band. Band camp jokes aside, colleges actively recruit these kids and shell out big bucks. My kid played some travel ball and is on the HS baseball team. He’s a freshman and has already met with 5 college band directors with them gauging interest. I had no idea how much these colleges are giving away.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 12:55 am to Byrdybyrd05
Im pretty sure that a kid on our team took a dive in soccer state cup so we wouldn’t have to play in regionals. This kid missed several easy goals.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 2:29 am to Byrdybyrd05
I see we’ve arrived at the weekly OT travel ball thread with the same “Jaxxsyn” responses pretty early.
Always the same people starting the same shite over and over again. Just like pretty much any other thread here.
Always the same people starting the same shite over and over again. Just like pretty much any other thread here.
This post was edited on 5/10/22 at 4:43 am
Posted on 5/10/22 at 3:10 am to Byrdybyrd05
Some kids really love playing baseball all the time. But a bunch also would rather not, but the parents don’t give a frick.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 5:40 am to irishTiger18
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Could you tell if the kids ever got tired of the game and wanted to lose in the playoffs? I remember my school on the northshore kinda hated the coaches / grind and usually wanted to lose for it to be over
Probably sensed more “I’m ready for this to be over with” in players on teams that didn’t even make the playoffs. The grind of football season is tough enough. It’s way, way tougher when you’re losing.
When you win on Friday night and get up Saturday morning to prepare for a big game that you have a good chance to win, it gives you some adrenaline to help sustain. But when you lose a heartbreaker on Friday night and get up Saturday morning to prepare for a team that you know is going beat you to death no matter what you do and you’re going to have to drive three hours to play them and get back to the school at some crazy hour and then wait around on some freshman’s dumbass parents who couldn’t meet the bus on time, it’s hard to describe how miserable that is.
As a coach you have to make yourself work through those times (giving the same effort regardless of how bright or bleak the days are) and be an actor around the kids, but if you come to a point where those weeks are common and there’s not much more talent coming up the pipeline to at least give you a light at the end of the tunnel, it will often make you question your professional choices.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 5:48 am to Byrdybyrd05
I know i never did as a kid. I wanted to win every game
Posted on 5/10/22 at 5:51 am to Byrdybyrd05
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Travel ball sounds miserable lol
Worst thing to happen to kids sports.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 6:22 am to Byrdybyrd05
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Travel ball sounds miserable lol
The OT's version of travel ball would be absolutely miserable. But the OT's version of travel ball is packaged as all the bad aspects, and bad stereotypes and nothing else. It's mainly the opinions of people who either don't have kids, or don't have kids that play baseball. In reality travel ball has some bad aspects, as does every other thing in life that assimilates a bunch of people together. You're going to have shite head parents screaming at their respective spoiled Jaxxon's and Paisleigh's, cusssin umpires and living vicariously thru their children.
But you'll also have a ton of people who just want their kid to play baseball, because the kid loves to play baseball. And as shocking as it may sound it can be well managed by the parent and not an all encompassing lifestyle choice that dooms their kid's future. And you know what, most of the kids love it. They're out there playing and competing as teammates, not sitting home on an Xbox stuffing their face with Oreos.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 6:30 am to Byrdybyrd05
Didn't this thread happen a week ago?
Posted on 5/10/22 at 6:30 am to Byrdybyrd05
Posted on 5/10/22 at 7:26 am to Byrdybyrd05
Sounds like some of you just want to make excuses because your son is a pussy and can’t make a travel ball team. Probably grows up to play with balls just not the kind that earn him championship rings.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 7:27 am to Byrdybyrd05
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How many kids wish they lose in travel ball and tournaments?
They want those idiotic championship rings! Makes them feel like Tom Brady!
Posted on 5/10/22 at 7:31 am to Byrdybyrd05
Saw a father-son duo at the airport the other day. Son had his metal bat sticking out of his backpack and dad was tatted up with a flatbill and MAGA shirt. You know that dude drives a Ford Raptor with a 10 yr note.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 7:40 am to Byrdybyrd05
Personally, if the only two choices for my kid were playing travel ball or video games I’d take ball in a heartbeat.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 7:41 am to CougarBait
quote:what's funny is i'm not sure if this is satire or not
Sounds like some of you just want to make excuses because your son is a pussy and can’t make a travel ball team. Probably grows up to play with balls just not the kind that earn him championship rings.
Posted on 5/10/22 at 7:45 am to Byrdybyrd05
My kid says the year he broke his arm and couldn't play ball was the best summer of his childhood.
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