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re: Parents detail spending $16k per year on JaXXXons travel ball career
Posted on 2/4/26 at 8:56 am to Pedro
Posted on 2/4/26 at 8:56 am to Pedro
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Coaching high school sports nothing makes me more irate then when a good runner tells me they can’t do cross country because of their fricking club soccer/baseball coach telling them no. Drives me up a damn wall.
or it could be cross country is gay and sucks and literally makes kids slower in the power sports...
just saying
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Posted on 2/4/26 at 8:59 am to tiggerthetooth
quote:She’s built like your standard OTers wife.
You know that travel trailer shakes like a wooden roller coaster when she wakes up in middle of the night to go pee
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:01 am to Chad504boy
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seems like the nutritionist for her son is a wise investment.
prolly pay off way more for his health in the end
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lets also detail the families that send 10k or more on spending 6 days in disney world. or above middle class families that put their 16 yr old in a 55k+ vehicle to drive to school. Or mommas that buy chick fil a and starbees for their kids 5 days a week. lets go down this slope boys.
you are not allowed to do that. you are only allowed to pay for things the OT blue collar boomers deem worthy and things are not allowed to change from when they grew up
and god forbid you be able to afford the things they deem worthy and travel baseball....that really pisses off the OT.
but to be fair....16k is more than most of the best players spend and it doesnt sound like they can comfortably afford it. So they should prolly look at changing and from the looks of the kid...he needs more time in the gym and less time on the field.
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That would require having Dominicans in travel leagues.
umm...they do, its called MLB academies and most of the academies have academies with travel teams in the US that they send the best of the best from the DR to play for in the big PG tournaments.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:02 am to SuperSaint
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She’s built like your standard OTers wife.
no poliboard posters wife.
she should follow the nutritionist advice and try walking during practices and games instead of sleeping in the RV
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:04 am to lsu777
quote:now we got us a proper travel Bawl Thray
lsu777
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:05 am to tiggerthetooth
All these "competition" activities cost a shitton.
Baseball
Basketball
Gymnastics
Cheer
With the last two, you get the added bonus of lifetime mental health counseling.
Baseball
Basketball
Gymnastics
Cheer
With the last two, you get the added bonus of lifetime mental health counseling.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:06 am to tiggerthetooth
We probably spent that much annually on my kids gymnastics career. $5k annually for instruction. Like $4k for gear and meet fees. Then the travel expenses all over the South. Over expensive hobby but she had fun. We had fun going to them.
The hard part is options seemed to be recreation which isn’t much time in a sport or full blown team. No great middle ground. And man many of these parents wanting to talk about what LSU is looking for. Crazy expectations.
The hard part is options seemed to be recreation which isn’t much time in a sport or full blown team. No great middle ground. And man many of these parents wanting to talk about what LSU is looking for. Crazy expectations.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:08 am to SuperSaint
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now we got us a proper travel Bawl Thray
na...16k on 1 kid....thats big time excessive. travelling 3.5 hours for practice is retarded.
at some point just find a team and do your training yourself.
and if you cant afford 16k....fricking dont spend it
im all for travel baseball but it has to be at a level you can afford.
IT IS NOT AN INVESTMENT! your kid is not an investment period. anyone that looks at it as that is a very low iq individual
as someone else pointed out, college is cheaper than spending 16k a year for 12 years.
travel baseball is just allowing your kid to chase their dreams. but frick, it aint worth going in debt over.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:09 am to tiggerthetooth
Relax you guys he's a walk-on for the squad at SLCC. Totally paid off. Who's laughing now.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:11 am to tiggerthetooth
I coached many travel ball and non-travel ball teams for many years - my focus was on the kids having fun and the team aspect of the sport - I had some phenomenal athletes but the reality is that the vast majority of kids won't even make their high school baseball team where you have FR through SRs competing for a very limited number of roster spots - parents have to make the spending decision for themselves but they also need to consider reality
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:12 am to Chad504boy
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or above middle class families that put their 16 yr old in a 55k+ vehicle to drive to school
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:14 am to ClientNumber9
quote:This is what we call thinking social media mimics real life
Not to sidetrack this thread but names like this are the downfall of America. Everybody's kid has to be special and unique. We can't be John or Frank or Robert or William or David anymore. frick that fatass.
Mostl common boy names
Top names for boys
Theodore.
Oliver.
Henry.
Noah.
Liam.
Levi.
William.
Owen.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:17 am to tiggerthetooth
Tony Robicheaux (former UL baseball coach) told me once that he prefers kids that came up through Little League because they were scrappy and grew up knowing that they had to win to advance in baseball. He had a lot of former Little League kids on his rosters.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:18 am to TBoy
quote:There isn’t a college baseball team that isn’t 99.99999% travel ball kids right now. Likely haven’t been for 10-15 years
Tony Robicheaux (former UL baseball coach) told me once that he prefers kids that came up through Little League because they were scrappy and grew up knowing that they had to win to advance in baseball. He had a lot of former Little League kids on his rosters.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:19 am to BabyTac
It's 3k a year just to join. Multiply that times 10 years. Then add hotels, gas, and eats.
The multiple times 2 for the second kid.
The multiple times 2 for the second kid.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:20 am to ClientNumber9
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Her kid's name is Braison. Not to sidetrack this thread but names like this are the downfall of America.
The Asians will be our salvation.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:21 am to Bestbank Tiger
Where did you find that made up shite?
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:24 am to tiggerthetooth
This is a parent issue and not a travel baseball issue.
This is inline with the obssessed parents in beauty paegants, dance, gymnastics, and many other activities.
This is inline with the obssessed parents in beauty paegants, dance, gymnastics, and many other activities.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:24 am to lsupride87
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There isn’t a college baseball team that isn’t 99.99999% travel ball kids right now. Likely haven’t been for 10-15 years
I'm sure the percentages are very high because it is a numbers game. There aren't as many good Little League organizations around the country anymore.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:25 am to tiggerthetooth
I pay what I feel is a ton for both my kids baseball and softball teams.
I would never pay that much for my kids to play a sport unless it the showed REAL promise and the kids were the ones pushing more and more to play just that sport.
And even then, that’s only in HS, after puberty resets everyone’s bodies.
I would never pay that much for my kids to play a sport unless it the showed REAL promise and the kids were the ones pushing more and more to play just that sport.
And even then, that’s only in HS, after puberty resets everyone’s bodies.
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