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Posted on 11/14/23 at 4:57 pm to TDTOM
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Where would that be?
Posted on 11/14/23 at 5:01 pm to lsu777
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1) they are older and their kids only played rec and they are way out of touch.
2) people that dont have kids and never played sports growing up
3) people that have kids that dont play sports
4) people that value time drinking at the hunting lease or fishing camp over all else(majority of the OT)
5) people that are just jealous because they cant afford it and their mad their kid is getting left behind.
I coach (reluctantly). I think travel ball the way it is now is dumb, but the state of many rec departments is so terrible that many people don't have a choice. Our kids would get to have 1 practice in rec and then start games. You can't teach shite in one practice or 10 or so rec games.
I don't give a shite if we win a single game next season. If I can see that the majority of the kids have improved from beginning to end, I will feel like I have done my part
Posted on 11/14/23 at 5:08 pm to DarkDrifter
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Curious as to how many of the golfers in that number are female.. That's where I've seen the biggest uptick locally.
Aspiring influencers?
Posted on 11/14/23 at 5:10 pm to DarkDrifter
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golfers in that number are female.. That's where I've seen the biggest uptick locally.
Title IX
Posted on 11/14/23 at 5:48 pm to Chad504boy
Golf has boomed here among all the baseball guys. They are all playing tons of golf. My son who played on a successful majors team from 10-14 plays two and three times a week with his baseball buddies. They have cross pollinated with the good junior golfers.
He loves it. Wish we had discovered it sooner.
He loves it. Wish we had discovered it sooner.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 5:49 pm to tigerfoot
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a successful majors team from 10-14
Posted on 11/14/23 at 6:04 pm to AbitaFan08
And the MLS uses then to recruit talent.
Because rich kids with other options make better pro athletes than poor Honduran kids and a $5 walmart ball.
Because rich kids with other options make better pro athletes than poor Honduran kids and a $5 walmart ball.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 6:25 pm to baldona
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This is simply completely untrue. Travel ball helps but its by no means everything. Everything is practicing and playing, a lot. There are tons of poor white, black, and hispanic (and whatever else) that grow up in areas that either don't have travel ball teams or they are just too poor. Those kids make it all the time. What travel ball does is help kids face better competition and more importantly, see better competition so they know how much they need to practice to be better individually. Every single year there are scholarship athletes at every SEC school that grew up not playing travel ball or at least not until they made varsity and were recruited by someone.
Are you involved with high level high school baseball like i am? Because you don’t know wtf you are talking about.
Show me 1 kid in the sec that signed this year that didn’t grow up playing travel or some academy.
Fact is you can’t.
I’m around some the best hs baseball in the country….when you are only keeping 10-12 kids max per year..yea it is true. You are not making a high level hs baseball team without playing.
All the kids at
Barbe, Sam Houston, Sulphur, stm, St. Louis, teurlings, , Catholic, st amant, destrahan, all the Nola Catholic schools, west Monroe etc….very single kid played travel, every one.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 6:27 pm to TDTOM
Ha, travel baseball in LC is very very tame even by Louisiana standards compared to other states. Teams around here play way way less than other places in the state.
As far as essay post, doesn’t take long to type it out. Of course I misspell have the shite, but oh well
As far as essay post, doesn’t take long to type it out. Of course I misspell have the shite, but oh well
Posted on 11/14/23 at 6:28 pm to Duffnshank
Rawrrr back in muhrr dehh we hykked 15 miles uphill berth ways
Posted on 11/14/23 at 6:29 pm to 777Tiger
What’s so funny about that? I’m not talking mlb, I’m talking the different divisions in travel.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 6:29 pm to doc baklava
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than poor Honduran kids and a $5 walmart ball.
Those kids are animals at 10.
amazing what motivation with a little bit of athletic ability can do. Posted on 11/14/23 at 7:26 pm to MrLSU
Inflation is kicking their asses and they already live beyond their means
Posted on 11/14/23 at 7:54 pm to MrLSU
Blow me.
/s Khash and Truexton.
/s Khash and Truexton.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 8:03 pm to lsu777
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lsu777
Bro, I love your passion. But again as I've posted in other threads, this always ends up with guys trolling you.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 8:49 pm to lsu777
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What’s so funny about that?
man, that was like a travel ball mating call to you, the labeling you give those kids
Posted on 11/14/23 at 9:25 pm to lsu777
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lsu777
Where did I say baseball? I said SEC scholarship athletes.
But yes, you are right, junior and senior year when they already made varsity.
What I’m saying is that there’s a ton of kids that basically grow up in small towns and crush it and are recruited to either travel teams or bigger HS teams and then go to travel teams.
They didn’t get made from travel ball, they added to it. If you can’t understand that I’m sorry.
Same thing with basketball. And other sports.
This post was edited on 11/14/23 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 11/15/23 at 9:30 am to baldona
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They didn’t get made from travel ball, they added to it.
I agree. As a travel bawl coach, for the most part it's just travel rec. Yes the elite kids play on regional or national teams against better competition, but that's not true for 98% of kids. The biggest difference is the amount of practice the kids get to have over rec ball.
When I played travel, there was 1 team for my age that had 12-13 players from 4-5 different parishes. Now there's 4 teams for every age in our small town.
Posted on 11/15/23 at 9:44 am to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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As a travel bawl coach
I hope you're better at that than swinging them sticks baw...
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