re: The reality of travel baseball

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You don't have to imagine it cause that's all made up crap to drive twitter engagement.

My son played "travel" ball, we rarely played more than an hour from home.Crazy enough he still played video games, had sleep overs, rode bikes, played football and everything else you can think of.

He also never played fall baseball at all, first fall baseball he's ever played was his first year in college. I can tell you though he had zero chance of even making his HS team through rec ball.

I also have a younger son who is 11 who plays rec ball. He likes baseball and has fun with it but he is not competitive in the same way his brother is. So we aren't pushing him into travel ball because ultimately I just want him to have fun and enjoy the game. He also has little chance of playing on his HS team unless he gets a little more serious about it in the next 2-3 years. Its just the reality of it. If he wants to do it, cool and if not thats okay too.

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You can't say it's all made up then say your son never played fall ball. There are plenty teams out there playing 10-12 months. My 8yr old has kids in his 3rd grade class that take a winter break in December then start back up the first week of January. At 8U. They travel from Texas to the Panhandle most of the year. They're always leaving right after school on Fridays or sometimes they just miss school on Friday to travel around the Gulf Coast. It's wild shite.

I coached travel ball for years, and the reality is that most of the kids have no shot at college baseball. Kids that go to bigger schools get introduced to other sports and leave baseball behind after 8th grade. The 6 foot 12 year usually never grows another centimeter, and they burn out by 10th grade. We thought we had 2 studs on our team, but neither played beyond Junior year. The team I coached did have 2 boys get scholarships for other sports, which makes me truly happy for their families.

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The reality of travel sports

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The largest ponzi scheme in the US

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Roughly 7% of high schoolers play in colleg

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does that include junior college and/or community because that seems pretty high

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all of that mess to maybe attend Nicholls on a 10% discount

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and mainly so they can say they "played college ball"

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and mainly so they can say they "played college ball"

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let me ask a couple quesitons

1) you realize nicholls is D1 right? you do understand how good you have to be to play at a school like that right?

2) you also realize some kids love playing the game of baseball, right. its there passion and to have the chance to keep playing is a big deal right?

3) you understand that not everything is an investment and some people value giving their kids experiences and opportunities over going to get drunk at the duck camp

yea i dunno where this notion that in the state of LA that teams play year around and no other sports because in LA that is not true

its 2-3 fall tournaments at max with most playing another sport. some teams play 1 or none.

spring its last week in Feb-end of june.

like i said....most in this thread have zero fricking clue. their experience with travel ball is knowing someone in it or what they read on Facebook.

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1) you realize nicholls is D1 right? you do understand how good you have to be to play at a school like that right?

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See this is the issue with most of the people in these kind of threads. They literally have no concept of how good you have to be to play college baseball.

I would encourage turning on espn+ and watching the juco world series which is winding down this week. Multiple guys on each team pumping 95+ along with guys that can REALLY hit. And thats all 18-20 year olds, not even upper classmen.

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See this is the issue with most of the people in these kind of threads. They literally have no concept of how good you have to be to play college baseball.

I would encourage turning on espn+ and watching the juco world series which is winding down this week. Multiple guys on each team pumping 95+ along with guys that can REALLY hit. And thats all 18-20 year olds, not even upper classmen.

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wont matter on here man

1) they love cheering on the LSU baseball team yet dog travel ball....yet every player we have on the team played travel, not rec. doesnt matter...travel ball is bad and nobody ever has a kid good enough to play and many on here think its 2002 still and coaches are going to just find you which is not remotely close to true. very very very few kids are found from just HS ball. coaches go to big High school travel tournaments so they can see you playing against kids of like talent. most on here dont even know there is such a thing as high school travel and have never even heard of wwba, NPI, area code games or east coast pro

2) most people here value time at the duck or fishing camp over anything else. they despise things that interfere with drinking at the camp.

3) many here have no clue about travel ball, have never done it and dont even know what it takes to make a HS team at all.

4) the OTs favorite past time is telling others how to spend money

5) the ot loves to say kids spend too much time inside but then if a kid wants to play more sports than the 12-15 games and 10 practices rec ball provides.....well thats too much.

you could be a kid that has a 4.0+, 35 on the act, goes to church every sunday, volunteers to help the elderly, fishes in his spare time and if you happen to play travel ball...well then the OT thinks you are the devil.

zero self perception on here and always think their lived experience is the only one there is.