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re: Tell the truth, do you ever hope your kid's team loses so you can get home?
Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:28 pm to 777Tiger
Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:28 pm to 777Tiger
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what playoffs?
Little League. There’s a team no one is going to beat and if we lose our game on Wednesday we will be on the other side of the bracket from them. Would have a chance to at least make it to the championship.
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Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:31 pm to andouille
Nah. I haven’t got sucked into this mass tournament play nonsense. My kids play a ton of sports in local leagues. Massive city, no reason to travel. Only a handful of multi game days with tournaments. They’re very competitive and want to win, and I’m their biggest fan.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:32 pm to andouille
Worse than....I couldn't wait for my kids to get bored wit Tee Ball so they'd quit and we wouldn't have to frick with it. Took our son one season, daughter took about 3 weeks and was done with that BS. I loved sports when I was a kid but most parents showed up for games if that...they certainly weren't at every practice like they are now.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:35 pm to OK Roughneck
quote:I have, espeically if we are in a town where there is something fun to go do afterwards. Hell, I have hoped my kid gets struck out at times, lessons in humility are underrated. Watching the kid play a sport while his sibling is wandering the ball park and mom is talking with moms and I am sitting down the left field line is not family time :lol. Going with a teammate to eat then seeing the hotel ceiling at 10 isnt family time. Getting up on Sunday to get to cage at 8am while skipping church, is not family time. Look we did it and still do it, but it doesnt mean shite until they hit high school. There are worse things in life than losing a game early enough to get home and jump in the pool and grill some steaks.
I have never hoped for a loss for them.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:40 pm to tigerfoot
I never said all of it was fun and convenient . 
When it was really hard watching games for me was on a college football Saturday. People that schedule things on college football Saturdays have their priorities all wrong.
When it was really hard watching games for me was on a college football Saturday. People that schedule things on college football Saturdays have their priorities all wrong.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:42 pm to andouille
That's why you coach your kid's teams so you can throw the game on purpose and get little D'Jaxtshon home early for bed.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:45 pm to andouille
For the Cub Scout Pinewood Derbies my son and I would shoot for the "design" award, since they handed that out at the start of the races and we didn't have to spend the day there competing for the speed trophies.
One year we accidentally built a fast car and had to spend the day there. He was more upset than I was.
The next year we glued the wheels so that they wouldn't turn. But we won the shite out of that design trophy.
One year we accidentally built a fast car and had to spend the day there. He was more upset than I was.
The next year we glued the wheels so that they wouldn't turn. But we won the shite out of that design trophy.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:47 pm to OK Roughneck
quote:Now, I had a hard and fast rule, no baseball tourneys in the fall...the arms and bodies need a rest anyway. But college football, hunting...too much else that is fun going on. No kid needs to play all year baseball. Yes, you can train general strength, flex, and agility that can be applied to baseball but strong kids dont need to be throwing 10 months a year.
When it was really hard watching games for me was on a college football Saturday. People that schedule things on college football Saturdays have their priorities all wrong
Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:47 pm to Monahans
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Little League.
wow, unheard of anymore, playing for a school or community in an actual league competing for something rather than buying into a tournament with guaranteed rings and six foot tall trophies for all, amazing
Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:56 pm to 777Tiger
And sadly, the travel teams invaded Little League.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:57 pm to andouille
never wish we lose but there are times where im certainly not upset
Posted on 4/29/25 at 12:59 pm to tigerfoot
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And sadly, the travel teams invaded Little League.
at the risk of invoking the wrath of lsu777 and a sure invitation to Sonic, travel ball has ruined, or I should say adults behind the big business of travel ball, have pretty much ruined the sports experience for kids
Posted on 4/29/25 at 1:02 pm to TheWalrus
quote:
South Park episode Losers Edge
Except in that episode, the kids were the ones who wanted to go home.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 1:10 pm to 777Tiger
quote:
at the risk of invoking the wrath of lsu777 and a sure invitation to Sonic, travel ball has ruined, or I should say adults behind the big business of travel ball, have pretty much ruined the sports experience for kids
i mean nothing to get mad about we just disagree, mainly on the cause or that LL is ruined.
i mean LC, Lafayette, the AP and east bank still have pretty big little leagues. its just for the most part the best players dont play in it or only play 12u year.
LL is perfectly fine for the kid that just wants to play with his friends and have fun. honestly half the kids playing AA travel ball should just be playing LL.
but i know you dont like the tournament ball trend and i get it. but overall youth participation in baseball is highest since 2008.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 1:18 pm to lsu777
My oldest did competitive soccer for a few years, and while most games were against other local clubs, or a local tournament, there were a few out of town tourneys we took them to.
The one that stands out was in Huntsville Alabama, and there was a Friday night game, multiple games on Saturday, and by the time we got to Sunday morning in the losers bracket, if they lost we all got to leave around 10. If they won, there was like 3-4 hours until the championship game. If it hadn't been raining off and on all weekend, most of us wouldn't have minded sticking around. But when I'm there with her younger brothers and having to kill another 2-4 hours between games with everyone either damp or soaking wet, yeah, I want them to lose so we can head home. Maybe it is bad parenting, and none of us would ever tell our kids that. By then we've seen a half dozen games already and another long wait so y'all get a silver medal or gold medal from the whatever Huntsville Soccer Club tournament presented by some local sponsor isn't that appealing. I still have laundry to do, get ready for work, maybe do some grocery shopping since we haven't been home in 3 days.
The one that stands out was in Huntsville Alabama, and there was a Friday night game, multiple games on Saturday, and by the time we got to Sunday morning in the losers bracket, if they lost we all got to leave around 10. If they won, there was like 3-4 hours until the championship game. If it hadn't been raining off and on all weekend, most of us wouldn't have minded sticking around. But when I'm there with her younger brothers and having to kill another 2-4 hours between games with everyone either damp or soaking wet, yeah, I want them to lose so we can head home. Maybe it is bad parenting, and none of us would ever tell our kids that. By then we've seen a half dozen games already and another long wait so y'all get a silver medal or gold medal from the whatever Huntsville Soccer Club tournament presented by some local sponsor isn't that appealing. I still have laundry to do, get ready for work, maybe do some grocery shopping since we haven't been home in 3 days.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 1:49 pm to CootKilla
I peruse these threads and can't help feeling a little smug about being childless. It just never ends with these minions
Posted on 4/29/25 at 1:54 pm to 777Tiger
quote:I see both sides. Crazy enough this year I have enjoyed my kids travel games more than ever. My first was a pretty skilled player and played on a good team, that felt more like a job. My youngest son is not super skilled, but is playing his first year of travel this year at 13, his team is a bunch of good kids, they play AA baseball and I have loved it for him, he is having a ball and his confidence is shooting up. He is advancing in the game quickly. He just needed some maturity and without the availability to play travel, he would have never played past 12...he may still not, this may be the end of the road but its been great for him.
or I should say adults behind the big business of travel ball, have pretty much ruined the sports experience for kids
Posted on 4/29/25 at 1:57 pm to TU Rob
quote:I had no problem telling mine. The world doesnt revolve around em...we love em, and we prioritize them when we can and we honor commitments...but parents are human too.
Maybe it is bad parenting, and none of us would ever tell our kids that
Posted on 4/29/25 at 2:04 pm to OK Roughneck
Parents who would rather watch college sports, or do anything really, other then watch their kids do something they enjoy are the scum of the earth.
Posted on 4/29/25 at 2:07 pm to 777Tiger
quote:
at the risk of invoking the wrath of lsu777 and a sure invitation to Sonic, travel ball has ruined, or I should say adults behind the big business of travel ball, have pretty much ruined the sports experience for kids
Just returned from Hawaii 3 weeks ago and saw something at the Honolulu airport that was interesting,.....travel ball in Hawaii is a whole other level of commitment LOL....there were at least 250 kids in multiple teams baseball uniforms waiting at gates all over the airport....with their families. Traveling from Atlanta to Savannah is one thing, doing so from Honolulu to Las Vegas is a whole 'nother level.....
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