re: Parents detail spending $16k per year on JaXXXons travel ball career

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Give them a chance to pursue their dream or goal to the extent it fits your budget. Once they get to high school the game will tell them if they are good enough or not. As long as they are busting their arse to be the best they can be and keeping up with academics the structure of atheletics is very good for kids. Baseball is on the low end of cost conpared to dance, cheer, volleyball, soccer, lacrosse

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exactly, but this is what people dont understand. they say things about going pro and bullshite like that, not understanding it has nothing to do with that. It has to do with giving them a chance to make their HS team which at some schools, especially at the big schools, is extremely difficult now a days.

then people say stupid shite like the DR kids do it for 50 a year....no they dont, they sign with mlb academies where they live starting at 10-11 and they agree to forfeit 10-20% of their future earnings to the academy...so the ones that do make it are paying millions.

this is a perfect example of what the big schools are producing in some states. Now this is a record type class but trinity christian is similar in stature to some of the big schools in houston, dfw, southern cali, other parts of florida, half dozen or so schools in LA etc

but look at the number of kids that signed and they had a pitcher get drafted 2nd round in the draft that just graduated

now most of the high schools arent producing this, but they are producing 1-2 P4 commits a year and 1-2 more D1 and then ~5 juco or d3 kids per year.

so how is a pure LL kid supposed to make that type of team and compete getting roughly 3-400 less practices from 10-14 and playing roughly 200 less games over that 5 year period? thats not to mention the extra training those kids are doing outside of team practice

again poster here need to understand something

1) its not your money, stop worrying about how others spend theirs
2) its not about pro or college, its about giving your kid a chance to pursue their dreams and about giving them the ability to make the HS team should they choose to do so.