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re: Youth travel ball has to be the dumbest waste of time and money.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:23 pm to SEClint
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:23 pm to SEClint
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I think its more for the parents than the kids
100% this.
Dads living vicariously through their kids and being helicopter parents are the absolute worst.
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Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:26 pm to Tigerfan1274
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Most of the kids in this area have their baseball careers end before high school
I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that any 90% of the kids with elite baseball skills within a 30 mile radius all "end up" at Barbe huh?
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:36 pm to Flashback
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Youth travel ball has to be the dumbest waste of time and money.
Lulz. Have you had a chance to catch any rec ball lately?
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:38 pm to Coach72
Year round sports are complete bullshite, be they soccer, football, baseball or basketball. Almost all the kids i know that made pros were multiple sports athletes, and this is actively encouraged by all the pro leagues. Yet this stupid shite grows like a weed to bilk parents out of thousands a year, and is actively discouraged by high school coaches. It’s nuts.
Pro athletes are genetically born that way first. Then they work their asses off and are lucky. That’s why they run in families. They are born not made.
You can’t work you way to the majors if you don’t have the skill first. If your son can’t throw 96 mph fastballs in high school, and have the nastiest curve in the state you are wasting your time and money.
It’s a complete racket
Pro athletes are genetically born that way first. Then they work their asses off and are lucky. That’s why they run in families. They are born not made.
You can’t work you way to the majors if you don’t have the skill first. If your son can’t throw 96 mph fastballs in high school, and have the nastiest curve in the state you are wasting your time and money.
It’s a complete racket
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:39 pm to EA6B
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My sons went to computer camps so they could get into highly competitive STEM programs and have successful lives instead of selling used cars because they didn’t make a college ball team.
Your kid can’t hit for shite. Got it
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:39 pm to Flashback
Must be that time of the month for the OT. The once a month travel ball thread has arrived.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:40 pm to Flashback
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Most of these kids won't play past high school and the parents sign them up to play year round, lol.
My kid likes to play football during the season and his travel ball team is not very good.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 9:41 pm to Flashback
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Most of these kids won't play past high school and the parents sign them up to play year round, lol.
Not necessarily travel ball but my kid is playing soccer year-round and I enjoy the fact that he is outside playing a sport and not watching YouTube.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 10:25 pm to Chad504boy
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Lulz. Have you had a chance to catch any rec ball lately?
Coaching two teams now.
I have kids in coach pitch and kid pitch.
It's pretty fun. There are not enough coaches. One of my teams has 4 really good players on it. They practice hard and want to play. The way it is they'll probably need to spend the money to see a field in high school.
My youngest loves to play. I throw with both daily cause we enjoy it.
My youngest is 7 and can tell you what's going on at all times and all bases on the field during a game. His talent isn't there. His uncle was a good athlete and I sucked arse. Zero ability.
Hell get our there and throw against my pitch back all by himself.
He won't won't have a chance to make a high school team. You need reps. Rec isn't going to get them for you. Watching the same age travel ball kids tram warm up the field next to our team and it's a huge gap in ability.
The way it is now. It's an arms race.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 10:55 pm to Malik Agar
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My Braxten is going to be a AA pitcher one day!
That would be great! He stands to make hundreds of dollars per month.
Posted on 4/30/22 at 11:46 pm to Flashback
Sorry Braxton didn’t make the team. Maybe with extra hitting coaches, Jaxson will make his team!
Posted on 5/1/22 at 12:50 am to Flashback
shite on travel ball all you want but I just left the park with my son. Showed up to the park 5hrs before his first game because he had friends playing earlier and wanted to watch kids play ball. Couldn’t think of a better way to spend a Saturday than being at the ball park with my son watching baseball
Posted on 5/1/22 at 7:32 pm to thejudge
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My youngest is 7 and can tell you what's going on at all times and all bases on the field during a game. His talent isn't there.
Tf????? He’s 7
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I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that any 90% of the kids with elite baseball skills within a 30 mile radius all "end up" at Barbe huh?
If that was the case, Sam Houston and Sulphur would probably suck and they would have gotten the kid from Rosepine
This post was edited on 5/1/22 at 7:34 pm
Posted on 5/1/22 at 8:11 pm to Flashback
Not travel baseball, but my coworkers daughter has been on a travel soccer team since she was 8 yrs old. Plays on an FC Dallas juniors team and has traveled all over the country and to Europe(all travel had to be paid for her parents).
She's a senior in high school now and got a full ride to Texas Tech on a soccer scholarship. Her dad is super proud. I told him if they had just saved the thousands and thousands of dollars on travel over the last 10 yrs, they wouldn't need a scholarship to pay for college.
She's a senior in high school now and got a full ride to Texas Tech on a soccer scholarship. Her dad is super proud. I told him if they had just saved the thousands and thousands of dollars on travel over the last 10 yrs, they wouldn't need a scholarship to pay for college.
This post was edited on 5/2/22 at 11:36 am
Posted on 5/1/22 at 8:18 pm to chalmetteowl
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My youngest is 7 and can tell you what's going on at all times and all bases on the field during a game. His talent isn't there.
Tf????? He’s 7
yep, hopefully that's a troll, pathetic if not
Posted on 5/1/22 at 8:20 pm to thejudge
Baseball is over for kids if they don’t make first allstar team.
Girls Soccer is a different beast, my son was probably the best goalie in Alabama and could have played at small schools, that’s it. Very limited opportunities for male soccer scholarships.
His classmate was 3rd or 4th best female goalie in bama, offer sheet was two pages long with free rides. There are tons of opportunities for girls in soccer.
Girls Soccer is a different beast, my son was probably the best goalie in Alabama and could have played at small schools, that’s it. Very limited opportunities for male soccer scholarships.
His classmate was 3rd or 4th best female goalie in bama, offer sheet was two pages long with free rides. There are tons of opportunities for girls in soccer.
Posted on 5/1/22 at 8:21 pm to TutHillTiger
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His classmate was 3rd or 4th best female goalie in bama, offer sheet was two pages long with free rides. There are tons of opportunities for girls in soccer.
that's how they comply with Title IX
Posted on 5/1/22 at 8:28 pm to 777Tiger
Yeah just like track n field
Posted on 5/1/22 at 8:33 pm to SEClint
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I think its more for the parents than the kids
Absolutely....
I travel for business and stay in Res Inn type hotels about 150 nights a year. They absolutely wreck the hotel on Friday and Saturday nights partying like college kids.
Posted on 5/1/22 at 8:47 pm to Chad504boy
Kade and Jaxon, when looking back on their youth, can take solace in the fact that they never had a choice.
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