re: Youth travel ball has to be the dumbest waste of time and money.

How are Jaxxson, Brayden, and Greyson gonna get noticed by the big league scouts without Travel Ball, baw?

Also to the dumbass talking about computer camps.....why not both?

Mine go to computer camps...maintain 4.0s not that hard to do both.

BTW your sons are computer nerds.



For the rest of the ot.....yall bitch about kids being fat and playing on the iPad to much....then bitch about them playing too many sports....bitch about them working out.....essentially bitch to bitch.

Stop worrying about what other people spend their money in, shite isn't even that expensive. Way Less than a week long vacation to Destin.

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What’s the point of music lessons if your kid won’t sign with a label one day?

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Do you travel every weekend for music lessons and beg other people to buy raffle tickets for Braxton music lessons?

The Tony Robichaux travel speech is a must watch.

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Do you travel every weekend for music lessons and beg other people to buy raffle tickets for Braxton music lessons?

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It's a fundraiser, don't buy it if you don't want to. We don't do them.

And why are yall so hung up on what others spend their money on though? Plenty of people pay for music lessons, ballet, cheer, all kinds of other sports not to mention fishing, hunting, and all kinds of other bullshite.

If a kid likes something and wants to play against better competition...you let them, not that hard to understand. If he wants to quit or take a year off....let him.

But you aren't making a high school team without playing high level travel, this isn't 1998 anymore.

When I say high level....for instance in lake charles...you aren't making barbe, sulphur, Sam Houston, st louis, Iowa, rosepine for sure and prolly not westlake, south Beau or grand lake either.

In Lafayette you aren't making TC, STM, Acadiana or LHS prolly not NIHS, Comeaux either

In br you aren't making catholic, Zachary PVB, or any of the other bigger schools that are good

In Nola you aren't making john Curtis, Jesuit, BM, rummel or any of the others that have a half arse decent program.

So where the frick you gonna go play? If you wanna play hs ball...travel is a must. Pretty much same with basketball.

It is what it is and arm injuries can be prevented with proper arm care and proper S&C.

Yall all hear the worst travel ball stories and apply it to every team, organization and every player. Typical dumbasses of the OT.

You’re the guy that will go tell the 12 yr old playing the drums in the garage to keep it down because he will never make it. Every hobby your kid will have requires money. Big shocker there. If it’s not traveling for tournaments and equipment, it’s for music going see different artists they may like, buying instruments, sound equip, etc.

Enjoy being a miserable person. I’m sure you’re fun to be around.

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You constantly repeating this doesn't make it true.

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You keep saying it's not true but are full of shite. Go ask the kids in barbe, sulphur, Sam Houston, st louis etc where they played travel.

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Guess what, you're going to drop 100 G's for your kids to play baseball and they're going to be just like all the other kids. Decent in high school with probably no chance to play after that, go to LSU, join Phi Delt or some shite, get hammered for 4 years, and then go get a job at Turner Industries.

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100g??? Wtf how much do you think travel ball cost? We have had one tournament outside of driving distance this year. All the rest are within an hour drive. The cost for the team is under 1750 all in.

As far as the rets of the comment...bitch shut your dumbass up. Lowly arse cpa gonna talk shite with your easy arse degree. My kids have 4.0s and will continue to because it's demanded of them to play.

When you have fricking kids you can tell me how to parent. Until then stfu

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If you can afford it cool, but playing travel ball in Lake Charles isn't turning your kid into Fernando Tatis, being a God given stud made Fernando Tatis, not some bullshite "World Series" in Panama City

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No fricking shite dumbass. My kid plays travel because he wants to. I don't make him do shite.

I used to be anti travel to and have coached rec for 8 years now. Rex sucks and hoping this is my last year and all kids play travel or quit playing to concentrate on other things.

And maybe instead of commenting about someone failing out of lsu and working at turner....you should concentrate on getting a better job so you can afford it one day. Or maybe you shouldn't have drank so much beer at lsu so you wouldn't be a lowly cpa.

I wanted to start a thread about this earlier but I can't start threads so I will just ask what I wanted to ask.

Can someone explain travel ball to me?

I have a nephew who plays on a 10 year old youth team. I learned more about how much it all cost yesterday. There are 11 kids on his team and each kid (well their parents) have to pay $1k to be on the team. That's $11k. That covers uniforms which I estimated probably cost what? No more than $1200 for the team?

It covers the entry fee of each tournament, I have no idea what that cost, but I guessed $500. 10 tournaments that's $5k. Let's add $2k more for any other cost and that's $8200. That $2800 left over.

But there is another team that plays in the same tournaments, same amount of players, but it cost $2k to play. why would another team cost an extra $1k to play on? This weekend they played in a tournament with 18 teams. It cost $10 to get in. They sell concessions which they must make a killing on.. This is at a public park. Ran by the city it was in. What does the entry fee money go towards.

It seems like a fricking racket. The level of play per team seems to vary. Some teams are well coached, the communicate, they are aware of where they need to throw the ball. Other teams look like they are completely unorganized. If there are baserunners and someone kids a kid, the kids are throwing it to the wrong spots, miss pop flies, etc. Its obvious which teams get a lot of reps at practice and which ones just frick off.

So what is the goal in all of this? One week you play in a tournament with 4 teams and you win. The next week you go play with 18 teams and get racked over the coals. So what's the end game?

And I would like to get into the trophy making business and/or having my own brand of baseballs.

You are a fricking tard

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I wanted to start a thread about this earlier but I can't start threads so I will just ask what I wanted to ask.

Can someone explain travel ball to me?

I have a nephew who plays on a 10 year old youth team. I learned more about how much it all cost yesterday. There are 11 kids on his team and each kid (well their parents) have to pay $1k to be on the team. That's $11k. That covers uniforms which I estimated probably cost what? No more than $1200 for the team?

It covers the entry fee of each tournament, I have no idea what that cost, but I guessed $500. 10 tournaments that's $5k. Let's add $2k more for any other cost and that's $8200. That $2800 left over.

But there is another team that plays in the same tournaments, same amount of players, but it cost $2k to play. why would another team cost an extra $1k to play on? This weekend they played in a tournament with 18 teams. It cost $10 to get in. They sell concessions which they must make a killing on.. This is at a public park. Ran by the city it was in. What does the entry fee money go towards.

It seems like a fricking racket. The level of play per team seems to vary. Some teams are well coached, the communicate, they are aware of where they need to throw the ball. Other teams look like they are completely unorganized. If there are baserunners and someone kids a kid, the kids are throwing it to the wrong spots, miss pop flies, etc. Its obvious which teams get a lot of reps at practice and which ones just frick off.

So what is the goal in all of this? One week you play in a tournament with 4 teams and you win. The next week you go play with 18 teams and get racked over the coals. So what's the end game?

And I would like to get into the trophy making business and/or having my own brand of baseballs.

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It hilarious to me that so many people get so upset about tourney >insert sport here<.

Bottom line is, why do you care wtf I’m spending my money on? I don’t brag about my kid. I don’t boast about my kid winning a ring for winning a 4 team “World Series.” Matter of fact, my kids team isnt very good at all. Their record is something like 2-15. But, he’s learning way more than what he would learn in rec ball. Way more options for lessons and access to a few things that other kids don’t. Literally no one on this board who has kid(s) playing any competitive sport that’s not in their hometown have started threads saying “my fricking kid is amazing and plays sports and your kid sucks!”

The only people that start tourney >insert travel sport here < threads are posters who don’t have kids or don’t participate in said activities and see things from afar. Find new material.