re: Travel ball teams sitting on the side of the road asking for money?

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I’ve noticed this recently with my nephews. His school (same one I graduated from) made him get a list of email addresses from family and alumni so they could hit you up for donations.

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I can't put my finger on exactly why, but this would royally piss me off if I were a family member.

It's like the school is using the kids to help do their dirty work for them.

Baw...how coach maneri supposed to find my boy if we don’t go play in this tourney in Lafayette next weekend.

Put some sheckles in the hat so Coach can see my baw

Never seen the them pan handle. Not saying they don’t, just never seen it. A lot of that fund raising is for kids who can’t afford to just pay up.

Unfortunately, travel ball is a necessary evil. The rec leagues are truly a certifiable shite show. They have nobody to blame but themselves for driving kids to travel ball.

Just carry around a bunch of copies of a standard agent’s agreement and ask the parents to sign before donating. Tell them you want 20% of their MLB signing bonus plus 5% of the annual contract value.

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But they have the World Series to go play for. The same World Series every other kid plays for at the beach, Disney, etc. haha. What a waste of time and money

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But but Travel Coach said my baw has IT! Travel Coach said for just $1,000 a year for the next 5, that he can get our boy to the Show- or at least the JV team cause he knows the coach. He should know he played 2 yrs at JUCO and know guy who knows a guy that was drafted in the 30th round by the Cards.

What team you manage Travel Coach?

But but my check cleared Coach. And we are down to swing on the road trips

I saw a begging travel ball team on 30-A.
Made me sick.
Lazy fricks getting a beach trip, yet brg for money.
Worse than food stamp fraud, IMO.

Srsly, the irrational travel ball hate is laughable. Most of these parents don’t think their kids are going pro. The kids like baseball and get to spend time with their friends.....on the field, at the hotel pool, at camp grounds.....

If you don’t like it, don’t put your kid in it. Don’t buy their fund raising shite. Don’t give them money. Pretty simple, actually.

I mean, how fricked up are these parents for getting their kids out of the house, teaching them how to commit and work hard and spend time with friends and family. frickin lunatics. Trump should separate them.