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re: Travel Ball Powerhouse B3 Elite 7U just picked up a huge commitment
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:12 am to tiggerthetooth
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:12 am to tiggerthetooth
How fricking embarrassing. To have a kid in travel, under the age of 7, is quite possibly the absolutely fricking stupidest thing imaginable.
Your travel idiots should be enlightened/ashamed at what you do.
Spend $50 and get an hr each week of direct private lessons. Your son will go leap years in front of any moron playing travel
Your travel idiots should be enlightened/ashamed at what you do.
Spend $50 and get an hr each week of direct private lessons. Your son will go leap years in front of any moron playing travel
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Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:12 am to tiggerthetooth
where is this team/family located?
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:14 am to Miketheseventh
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. I always told her that it was for his safety.
I coached an under 6yr old coach pitch for a couple of years and did something similar. I rotated every kid at almost every position, save 3: “pitcher” first base, SS. SS/pitcher got some pepper balls sent their way and I spent the entire season teaching some of the more inclined kids at first to actually play first.
Half the season was rough, but by the midway point, I had kids throwing the ball from the infield to first with tons of success. Keep in mind, every other player would play every other position except for those three and it was for safety, and to help improve more inclined kids. If your kid stepped up, he’d be in the rotation.
Had a dad that swore little Johnny could play those spots. I tried to hide him at SS because the “pitcher” got the majority of the plays. After watching Johnny throw a fit because he missed several balls, dad complained his kid should play pitcher.
Moved that poor kid there and first batter smacks a line drive straight to his face. These were soft core balls but it still split his eye wide open. I ran to the kid’s aid and no shite, the dad blamed me for not having the kid prepared.
I started with 2.5 kids that could play those three positions, and by the end of the season 7 kids could play 2 of them, and 3 kids could actually play first. Our record was not the best, but those kids learned and had a blast. That dad, not so much…
Edit: this was park ball, not this crazy arse travel ball shite. The kid that was the best at 1B wound up playing tackle for Michigan and became a doctor. Another couple of kids played in high school around the city, but I don’t think they ever played D1. I guess I failed, lol.
This post was edited on 8/17/26 at 9:17 am
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:23 am to NIH
If I ever remarry I want a woman that fights for me as hard as 777 does for travel ball 
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:23 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Thats the issue. If you want to play baseball in high school now, it has to be your life up to high school. Thats rediculous. Everybody taking the shite too seriously has ruined it.
So what...everyone should make the team? everyone gets a trophy because some kids are too good?
are you one of the karens that think if you participate in travel sports that you shouldnt be allowed to participate in HS sports? There are a lot of people that feel that away, in fact there is a texas group that even got a bill introduced stating just that....it never got of the debate phase in committee though.
I mean so the kids that actually really like sports...they shouldnt be allowed to play in HS because they are too good? The parents that are willing to sacrifice for their kid to chase his dreams...they shouldnt be allowed to represent the school?
im not being a smartass btw Im asking.
I will say....if you want the quality of play to go down, then implementing something like this would do just that. Kids are not really recruited anymore from HS, maybe a little but for the most part its off travel. So any kid that wants to play in college would opt out of school ball. all HS ball would be was rec ball after that
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:28 am to bamaguy17
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If I ever remarry I want a woman that fights for me as hard as 777 does for travel ball
why because I called out bullshite blatant lies?
the shite in the OP and all the non college signing ceremonies are gay and cringe as frick. I dont support that at all. but if a family chooses to play travel ball....they shouldnt have to hear bullshite lies from fat fricks of the OT that never played past little league about how they are ruining kids sports
i mean this is the same OT that has had dozens of posters that said they could never allow their kids to play travel sports because it would interfere with their weekend trips to the fishing/duck camp and hamper the beer drinking. Kind of hard taking people like that serious
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:29 am to lsu777
I don’t have a problem with travel ball as a whole. Kids as young as this don’t need a travel ball team. They need a decent rec park nearby that has a litany of sports.
If a kid is 12 or so and is taking it a bit more seriously, sure. If not, go hang out at the park and play every sport they offer.
Edit: and I say this as a cheer dad until my daughter realized it was kind of futile and a waste of money.
If a kid is 12 or so and is taking it a bit more seriously, sure. If not, go hang out at the park and play every sport they offer.
Edit: and I say this as a cheer dad until my daughter realized it was kind of futile and a waste of money.
This post was edited on 8/17/26 at 9:31 am
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:32 am to lsu777
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what...everyone should make the team? everyone gets a trophy because some kids are too good?
Yea, thats what I said.
This is you and your ilks problem. You cant step back and look at what youre doing. Little Timmy isnt going to the show, and probably isnt playing college ball either. The whole of his first 18 years of life being consumed by baseball is not healthy. Yet every high school team roster is now top to bottom a bunch of timmys who are hoping for a walk on juco deal but in reality wont ever play the sport again, and didnt do anything as kids except play baseball. Im sure your kid is the exception to the rule and is wonderfully well rounded, but everyone else here sees the travel ball stereotype play out in kids and families they know. It isnt good for anyone.
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say....if you want the quality of play to go down
The quality of play of high school baseball? The quality of play of high school baseball is irrleevent. Its a high school sport. A very few small number of God gifted athletes will do it for a living but the general idea is it should be fun, competitive, and help teach young boys how to be men. Yall travel ballers have completely removed the sport as an option for a talented high school kid who didnt want to consume his entire childhood with it.
Track and field is the superior spring sport anyway and I only hope club track doesnt ruin that. Its ruined pole vaulting already.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:41 am to I-59 Tiger
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where is this team/family located?
Judging by the fact that the hats of the state of Kentucky on them, I'm going with Kentucky for my guess.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:42 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Yea, thats what I said.
ok then whats the solution...you bitching that to make the HS team you shouldnt have to play travel?
because yea thats essentially what you said
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This is you and your ilks problem. You cant step back and look at what youre doing
i didnt do shite and i dont have a problem. Im simply telling you like it is.
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Little Timmy isnt going to the show, and probably isnt playing college ball either
ill take that bet 100 times out of 100, but sure believe what you want
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The whole of his first 18 years of life being consumed by baseball is not healthy
this is the problem...you assume thats their whole life. that playing every other weekend means they never do anything else. they never fish, they never make good grades, they never go to church, they never have other hobbies, they never have a life outside of baseball
or you assume that thats not what they enjoy doing. some kids actually love training and playing the sport...i know thats foreign to some of you
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et every high school team roster is now top to bottom a bunch of timmys who are hoping for a walk on juco deal but in reality wont ever play the sport again, and didnt do anything as kids except play baseball
yea thats why they are going to juco.....not because the NCAA fricked up recruiting or that they want a chance to go D1 or that they dont have the grades for high academic d3.
but in the end do you understand how good you have to be to go even JUCO?
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and didnt do anything as kids except play baseball. Im sure your kid is the exception to the rule and is wonderfully well rounded, but everyone else here sees the travel ball stereotype play out in kids and families they know. It isnt good for anyone.
i literally do not know anyone at all, even on the true national level that is like this. every single one of them has other hobbies that they enjoy and the most well rounded kids I know play travel ball
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Yall travel ballers have completely removed the sport as an option for a talented high school kid who didnt want to consume his entire childhood with it.
god forbid kids want to be good and actually enjoy the sport.....cant be too good or learn hard work now a days...might make it too hard for the other kids to make the team
but if you feel that away call you local representative, start online petition etc to get travel ball kids banned from playing HS sports....go full on Karen, dont just talk about it on TD...be about it.
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Track and field is the superior spring sport anyway and I only hope club track doesnt ruin that. Its ruined pole vaulting already.
newflash...the good track kids are training year around too and have private coaches
better find a no cut sport like football that your kid can be a part of
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:46 am to tiggerthetooth
did anyone see the Louisiana team coming out of their houses before their regional tournament
it was so cringe
it was so cringe
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:46 am to lsu777
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why because I called out bullshite blatant lies?
My post was meant to be funny. Like I said, I need a woman that fights for me like this. It wasn't very deep.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:47 am to touchdownjeebus
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Kids as young as this don’t need a travel ball team
agreed for the most part...but 7 or 8 for many is about the right time to start. you dont want a kid that is throwing 45 across the diamond and hitting it 65 off the bat playing rec with kids that have never played before, have no dad around to work with him and cant catch either.
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If a kid is 12 or so and is taking it a bit more seriously, sure. If not, go hang out at the park and play every sport they offer.
problem is in baseball, if you wait until 12, 99% of the time you will be so far behind that you couldnt even make a decent travel team, much less a good one.
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I say this as a cheer dad until my daughter realized it was kind of futile and a waste of money.
in the end except for about 1/5 of 1% of the kids that will get paid to play, its all a true waste of time and money if you are looking at it from a true ROI standpoint. Even a full ride to a high $ high academic school hardly covers the money spent, but thats not why you do it. You do it to allow your kids to chase their dreams, hope they learn that hard work equals success, hopefully doing it while being able to afford it easily.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:47 am to lsu777
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the most well rounded kids I know play travel ball
Iiighhhhhhttttttttttttt
You win. Im out.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:54 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Iiighhhhhhttttttttttttt
You win. Im out.
why because I know a bunch of kids with a 4.0 that are great kids that play travel ball? do you think thats now possible?
maybe stop hanging out with trashy people and you would know the same type of kids. travel ball or any sport in general does not define what kind of kid you are
or is your opinion unless you hunt and fish 4-5 months a year every week that you cant be well rounded?
what do you consider well rounded? seriously?
I consider kids who train for their sport with great grades, who are at church every sunday no matter where they play, kids that have other hobbies like fishing, golfing, hanging with friends to be well rounded
because they say no to going to the random Birthday party or the party in hs where everyone is drinking or they say no to other things because they have baseball doesnt make them not well rounded.
or because they choose to have 1 primary sport they arent well rounded?
im seriously asking...what do you consider well rounded.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 10:05 am to lsu777
You've made my point for me. You win, but ill answer this question because it deserves answering.
Kids whos entire family's lives dont revolve around baseball for their 10+ most formative years of life.
Im impressed that you dont know anyone whose lives became consumed by travel baseball. It seems most everyone else here does, and most everyone else sees that it isnt a good thing.
Kids becoming highly specialized in single sports at young ages, and pushing out the kids who dont specialize in single sports at young ages, is bad for both sports and kids. You are looking at it from the perspective of the kids - be more competitive be better win more. Its kids sports. From a high level, they are worse now than they've ever been.
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what do you consider well rounded
Kids whos entire family's lives dont revolve around baseball for their 10+ most formative years of life.
Im impressed that you dont know anyone whose lives became consumed by travel baseball. It seems most everyone else here does, and most everyone else sees that it isnt a good thing.
Kids becoming highly specialized in single sports at young ages, and pushing out the kids who dont specialize in single sports at young ages, is bad for both sports and kids. You are looking at it from the perspective of the kids - be more competitive be better win more. Its kids sports. From a high level, they are worse now than they've ever been.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 10:06 am to lsu777
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lsu777
How many times a week do you mention to people that you were on the all district team in HS?
Posted on 8/17/26 at 10:08 am to lsu777
Your entire post seems like you're trying to convince yourself rather than state what's actually going on.
"Travel ball" isn't about going across the country at this age. It's about leaving the park system to go on a fake "travel league" where they enter tournaments for entire weekends in the same city or state they live in. The only justification is the "better competition", which I don't buy at 7 because your son can still practice all the fundamentals against a crappy team. This is big business for local sport organizations.
In a post on 7U (and even up to 10U) travel baseball, you think that it's the kids driving this?! The kids just want to play with their friends and have fun. They don't know the community's public v private sporting options.
I always wonder how many kids miss their true, passionate sport callings because they were forced fed only one sport. The early selection and obsession in one sport to the exclusion of all others is not in the best interest of the child. The only exceptions would be sports where the pros are super young like rhythmic gymnastics. A study on this
"Some degree of sports specialization is necessary to develop elite-level skill development. However, for most sports, such intense training in a single sport to the exclusion of others should be delayed until late adolescence to optimize success while minimizing injury, psychological stress, and burnout."
"Swimmers who began specializing before 11 years of age spent less time on a national team and retired earlier than later specializers."
"Elite [Tennis] players began intense training and specialized later (after age 13-15 years) than near-elites (age 11 years)."
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I miss the days when children's sports wasn't all about mom and dad.
95% of it still is, its only the 5% you see being blasted on social media that isnt.
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The only people going half way across the country to play
"Travel ball" isn't about going across the country at this age. It's about leaving the park system to go on a fake "travel league" where they enter tournaments for entire weekends in the same city or state they live in. The only justification is the "better competition", which I don't buy at 7 because your son can still practice all the fundamentals against a crappy team. This is big business for local sport organizations.
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but dont get it twisted, in 95% of cases, its the kids driving the travel movement
In a post on 7U (and even up to 10U) travel baseball, you think that it's the kids driving this?! The kids just want to play with their friends and have fun. They don't know the community's public v private sporting options.
I always wonder how many kids miss their true, passionate sport callings because they were forced fed only one sport. The early selection and obsession in one sport to the exclusion of all others is not in the best interest of the child. The only exceptions would be sports where the pros are super young like rhythmic gymnastics. A study on this
"Some degree of sports specialization is necessary to develop elite-level skill development. However, for most sports, such intense training in a single sport to the exclusion of others should be delayed until late adolescence to optimize success while minimizing injury, psychological stress, and burnout."
"Swimmers who began specializing before 11 years of age spent less time on a national team and retired earlier than later specializers."
"Elite [Tennis] players began intense training and specialized later (after age 13-15 years) than near-elites (age 11 years)."
Posted on 8/17/26 at 10:08 am to thejuiceisloose
Lsu777 : travel ball
Momma bear : cubs
Momma bear : cubs
Posted on 8/17/26 at 10:11 am to lsu777
My cousin is DEEP in this shite. I went to watch his 8yr old son play over the summer and the entire thing from the time I pulled in the parking lot to the time I left was a walking, talking stereotype. It was eye opening to someone on the outside. Lots of fat, bushy bearded, tatted, flat-bill wearers. One parent from his team even brought their own hitting coach to the park that day. They were not ashamed to tell people they paid a guy that played at Pensacola State 2 years ago.
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