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re: Looking for parental advice from the ot re: kids travel ball
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:39 am to mandevilletiger34
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:39 am to mandevilletiger34
Here's how travel ball goes:
2 hour practices Tuesday and Thursday 6-8 pm
Saturday/Sunday Tournament 1 hour away
Leave Saturday at 10 am and play at 12. After game you find a way to kill three hours in the heat without wearing the boys out.
Play again at 3 pm and again kill time till the 6:30 pm game. Games get off time and you play at 7:30 pm then drive home. Get home at 10 pm, wash uniform, go to bed, get up and drive an hour to play at 11 am.
If you win you play again at 3:00 pm on and on until you win the championship or get knocked out.
We are in this right now, we went 2-1 yesterday.
It's a huge commitment, expensive and eats the entire weekend up.
(I forgot - deal with whinny arse parent who's kid sat on the bench because he sucks)
2 hour practices Tuesday and Thursday 6-8 pm
Saturday/Sunday Tournament 1 hour away
Leave Saturday at 10 am and play at 12. After game you find a way to kill three hours in the heat without wearing the boys out.
Play again at 3 pm and again kill time till the 6:30 pm game. Games get off time and you play at 7:30 pm then drive home. Get home at 10 pm, wash uniform, go to bed, get up and drive an hour to play at 11 am.
If you win you play again at 3:00 pm on and on until you win the championship or get knocked out.
We are in this right now, we went 2-1 yesterday.
It's a huge commitment, expensive and eats the entire weekend up.
(I forgot - deal with whinny arse parent who's kid sat on the bench because he sucks)
This post was edited on 6/11/17 at 7:42 am
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Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:40 am to The Torch
I miss those days
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:40 am to mandevilletiger34
Don't
Posted on 6/11/17 at 7:43 am to mandevilletiger34
What are parents spending a year on travel ball? I mean adding the gas, hotel rooms, food, entertainment, etc?
Posted on 6/11/17 at 8:02 am to SPEEDY
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What are parents spending a year on travel ball? I mean adding the gas, hotel rooms, food, entertainment, etc?
It's not too bad.
$1,000 to sign up which covers uniform and tournament entry fees. It's more the time. You learn to pack the car with sandwiches, drinks and snacks.
I'll spend less than $100.00 this weekend but we try to keep our tournaments within an hour of DFW.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 8:28 am to muttenstein
quote:then those teams wouldn't be in your classification
he'll thrive in any environment, but there did become a time where rec ball was just so watered down with kids who shouldn't have been paying baseball, it just wasn't a fun experience.
If you are pounding on teams you get bumped up until you don't.
To the op
Travel ball w a family of 6 would be miserable. No way I drag the kids around. We play it and played 7 weekends since February and that is one too many. We don't play in the Fall and play a fall sport, year round would be agony
And my boy is the same as yours, he was up at 7 throwing tennis balls against the wall, all decked out for the day
This post was edited on 6/11/17 at 8:29 am
Posted on 6/11/17 at 8:29 am to mandevilletiger34
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Looking for parental advice from the ot re: kids travel ball
This should link directly to the thread about how to get divorced like most of the OT.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 8:32 am to SPEEDY
quote:we aren't too crazy and only out of town 4 nights a year w hotels. You can figure that is 200 bucks for food and lodging, but I would spend that at home too probably.
What are parents spending a year on travel ball? I mean adding the gas, hotel rooms, food, entertainment, etc?
Uniforms and entry fee money was prob less than 400 bucks.
The big expense is the "world series", we are a sane group of parents but they voted to go out of state for 5 days. I am not looking forward to it. There is a great event in Sulphur we could've played in
Posted on 6/11/17 at 8:39 am to tigerfoot
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The big expense is the "world series"
We played the USSSA World series in Frisco, TX last year and got our asses handed to us.
Teams from 6 different states came in
This post was edited on 6/11/17 at 8:47 am
Posted on 6/11/17 at 8:56 am to mandevilletiger34
I always love these threads. It makes me so thankful that my kids aren't super athletic. I'm sure glad there's no travel lego league.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 10:16 am to mandevilletiger34
7 year old travel ball is a money pit.
If he is still interested and good at 12, then let him play travel ball. Until then, let the entire family enjoy their life without the weekend drama fest of any travel sport.
If he is still interested and good at 12, then let him play travel ball. Until then, let the entire family enjoy their life without the weekend drama fest of any travel sport.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 10:17 am to The Torch
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$1,000 to sign up
To play baseball?? What is this world coming to?
Posted on 6/11/17 at 11:18 am to The Torch
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$1,000 to sign up which covers uniform and tournament entry fees
Please tell me you are fricking kidding? 1k to join a team? No way in hell my parents would have ever paid that. No way in hell I'll pay that for my kids either
How old is your kid?
This post was edited on 6/11/17 at 11:27 am
Posted on 6/11/17 at 11:23 am to danilo
Rec ball March through first week of June for baseball.
October through January at deer camp.
October through January at deer camp.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 11:28 am to mandevilletiger34
Continue to allow your kid to play multiple sports, will make him a better general athlete in the long run, and will also help him out specifically in baseball in the future. I would not allow my kid to specialize like this. However, if you want probably the best opinion, google Dr. James Andrew's opinion on specialization and year round travel ball.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:56 pm to danilo
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How old is your kid?
10
We also have a sponsor who's kid is the worst player on the team, his mom chewed out one of our coaches today
Drama We drove an hour lost and drove back home today.
Travel ball sucks -
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:06 am to partsman103
This post was edited on 8/14/17 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 8/14/17 at 8:47 am to Honky Lips
That is a small amount to invest for 8 years when you are all but insuring a D1 scholarship or getting a draft bonus right out of HS.
I figure I will put $20k into it from age 9 to 17. The scholly to UGA or LSU will be worth way more than that. And if he goes in first 3 rounds of the draft out of HS , we will have a decision to make. It just depends on if I want to cash in my return on investment then or later. Either way, I am going to be rich and will be able to brag on my boy for being a MLB player. My son and I already have an agreement that I can retire and he will buy me a dream house and a vintage Datsun 280z.
I figure I will put $20k into it from age 9 to 17. The scholly to UGA or LSU will be worth way more than that. And if he goes in first 3 rounds of the draft out of HS , we will have a decision to make. It just depends on if I want to cash in my return on investment then or later. Either way, I am going to be rich and will be able to brag on my boy for being a MLB player. My son and I already have an agreement that I can retire and he will buy me a dream house and a vintage Datsun 280z.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 8:53 am to mandevilletiger34
Ive always thought the makeup of Mandeville was a lot like the makeup of Madison, MS.
In Madison, MS there are at least 8-10 travel ball teams from age 8-14. That's 80-100 kids in each age group, that makes up two school classes. So 40-50 boys in every grade are playing "travel ball."
There are two public high schools. There are probably no more than 5-7 spots on each of those teams per grade. So that means that up to 80 percent of the kids playing travel ball will not make the high school roster.
There are three private schools, which allows for another 15 or so, but still at least half the kids that played travel ball have no spot on a high school roster.
In Madison, MS there are at least 8-10 travel ball teams from age 8-14. That's 80-100 kids in each age group, that makes up two school classes. So 40-50 boys in every grade are playing "travel ball."
There are two public high schools. There are probably no more than 5-7 spots on each of those teams per grade. So that means that up to 80 percent of the kids playing travel ball will not make the high school roster.
There are three private schools, which allows for another 15 or so, but still at least half the kids that played travel ball have no spot on a high school roster.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 8:55 am to Winston Cup
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when did select baseball start being called travel ball?
When there became no selection process and it simply became a money grab for league organizers. The selection process for travel ball is being able to help the team foot the bill for uniforms and tourney entry fees for the one or two players who could actually make a select team.
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