Have noticed an inverse correlation between school quality and parent behavior during sports

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

I don’t understand whom you might be referring to.

Go take a trip to a youth baseball tournament. It's all rich UMC kids because the price of these clubs excludes everyone else. They aren't the best athletes and most of them will fail by high school.

But damn do today parents swallow the Kool aid and think little Larlo is the next Mike Trout despite being undersized, slow, and lacking in everu athletic trait (just like them).

You clearly haven’t been to top tournaments in GA or Alabama.

These clubs are fine letting good kids play for free (even if you are rich)…but the best players do play travel.

There is a very wealthy local white kid for Georgetown Prep that just played on the 18u USA Baseball team that won worlds…as well as kids like Ethan Halliday who is also wealthy and will probably be the #1 MLB draft pick next July.

Harvard Westlake and Corona in LA also have some likely MLB 1st and 2nd rounders and they are both wealthy and kids of former MLB players.

How cool of them to let the poor kids play with them.

Baseball is a rich kid sport because parents don't want their kids competing against the real athletes. Same with club soccer.

That’s a different point…though all top basketball players also play AAU/travel basketball as well. Those teams have big name NBA player support and major corporate sponsors, so again, anyone good enough to make a team like Team Durant gets to play.

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10/10 trolling. Not knowing what inverse means put it over the top.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

Wut? Baseball does not exactly require a ton of athleticism. I think you’re deeply confused.

Must be a travel ball parent who doesn't understand strength, speed, and athleticism matter a lot in baseball. It's the rich parents who can't accept that you can't buy talent.

But keep paying for your son to take a thousand soft toss reps. I'm sure it'll pay off. Lol

Strength? Yes. Speed? Yes. Athleticism? Nope. Sorry, baseball is one of the most leisurely sports out there.

Yes I'm sure Aaron judge lacks in athleticism.

I love how you go straight to the most athletic specimen in MLB history to make your point. Baseball players are more athletic than the average Joe, but they’re not even close (you know, overall) to basketball or soccer players, for example.

One can have an incredible talent for something like baseball and also not be particularly athletic.

The average professional baseball player is over 6'0 and 200 lbs.

They are way, way, way more athletic than the average person. The exception is some pitchers. Real baseball requires strength, speed, and power. Your average pro baseball player is more athletic than 99.9% of the population.

The bolded is in no way, shape, or form a proxy for athleticism. But I think the fact that you think it is means we are not working with the same definition of athleticism.

(And there are plenty of exceptions who aren’t pitchers, get real. There are lots of lardbutts in the MLB who can’t move for sh!t but they’re really, really good at hitting a ball with a bat.)

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

I don’t understand whom you might be referring to.

Go take a trip to a youth baseball tournament. It's all rich UMC kids because the price of these clubs excludes everyone else. They aren't the best athletes and most of them will fail by high school.

But damn do today parents swallow the Kool aid and think little Larlo is the next Mike Trout despite being undersized, slow, and lacking in everu athletic trait (just like them).

When they see their kid up against other suburban kids from the neighborhood they look like they are on their way to the Yankees. They forget there’s a vast world out there including the Dominican Republic where talent can be found.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

Wut? Baseball does not exactly require a ton of athleticism. I think you’re deeply confused.

Must be a travel ball parent who doesn't understand strength, speed, and athleticism matter a lot in baseball. It's the rich parents who can't accept that you can't buy talent.

But keep paying for your son to take a thousand soft toss reps. I'm sure it'll pay off. Lol

Strength? Yes. Speed? Yes. Athleticism? Nope. Sorry, baseball is one of the most leisurely sports out there.

Yes I'm sure Aaron judge lacks in athleticism.

I love how you go straight to the most athletic specimen in MLB history to make your point. Baseball players are more athletic than the average Joe, but they’re not even close (you know, overall) to basketball or soccer players, for example.

One can have an incredible talent for something like baseball and also not be particularly athletic.

The average professional baseball player is over 6'0 and 200 lbs.

They are way, way, way more athletic than the average person. The exception is some pitchers. Real baseball requires strength, speed, and power. Your average pro baseball player is more athletic than 99.9% of the population.

The bolded is in no way, shape, or form a proxy for athleticism. But I think the fact that you think it is means we are not working with the same definition of athleticism.

(And there are plenty of exceptions who aren’t pitchers, get real. There are lots of lardbutts in the MLB who can’t move for sh!t but they’re really, really good at hitting a ball with a bat.)

Next you're going to tell us how nfl lineman aren't athletic.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

Wut? Baseball does not exactly require a ton of athleticism. I think you’re deeply confused.

Must be a travel ball parent who doesn't understand strength, speed, and athleticism matter a lot in baseball. It's the rich parents who can't accept that you can't buy talent.

But keep paying for your son to take a thousand soft toss reps. I'm sure it'll pay off. Lol

Strength? Yes. Speed? Yes. Athleticism? Nope. Sorry, baseball is one of the most leisurely sports out there.

Yes I'm sure Aaron judge lacks in athleticism.

I love how you go straight to the most athletic specimen in MLB history to make your point. Baseball players are more athletic than the average Joe, but they’re not even close (you know, overall) to basketball or soccer players, for example.

One can have an incredible talent for something like baseball and also not be particularly athletic.

The average professional baseball player is over 6'0 and 200 lbs.

They are way, way, way more athletic than the average person. The exception is some pitchers. Real baseball requires strength, speed, and power. Your average pro baseball player is more athletic than 99.9% of the population.

The bolded is in no way, shape, or form a proxy for athleticism. But I think the fact that you think it is means we are not working with the same definition of athleticism.

(And there are plenty of exceptions who aren’t pitchers, get real. There are lots of lardbutts in the MLB who can’t move for sh!t but they’re really, really good at hitting a ball with a bat.)

Next you're going to tell us how nfl lineman aren't athletic.

LOL. Right after you tell us how Donald Trump IS an athlete!

But clearly I’ve touched a nerve here. I’m very sorry, I’m sure your little Buster is a superior athletic specimen and the only reason he sucks at baseball is because those mean ole rich kids have been excluding him from their fancy training. It certainly has nothing to do with the fact that he can’t hit the ball.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

I don’t understand whom you might be referring to.

Go take a trip to a youth baseball tournament. It's all rich UMC kids because the price of these clubs excludes everyone else. They aren't the best athletes and most of them will fail by high school.

But damn do today parents swallow the Kool aid and think little Larlo is the next Mike Trout despite being undersized, slow, and lacking in everu athletic trait (just like them).

When they see their kid up against other suburban kids from the neighborhood they look like they are on their way to the Yankees. They forget there’s a vast world out there including the Dominican Republic where talent can be found.

The DR kids though are recruited to MLB academies at 11-13 and receive very high level, intensive training. Let’s just say these kids aren’t receiving much in the way of formal schooling.

This isn’t much different to European soccer, basketball and hockey development.

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Could you baseball parents maybe go start your own thread and stop being obnoxious here?
Not sure about OP’s point, but we clearly figured out the sport with the worst parents.

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I mean there’s hockey too.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

And I hate to bring up politics but the entitled rich families often vote for republicans!

Everyone votes for republicans these days except those that did well at parroting back what their teachers told them.

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Obnoxious Parents Ranking:

1. Travel Baseball
2. Club Soccer
3. Travel Hockey

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Anonymous wrote:Obnoxious Parents Ranking:

1. Travel Baseball
2. Club Soccer
3. Travel Hockey

No list is complete without travel lax. Have enough kids to have done all those sports and lax folks are a special breed.

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In my experience/ badly behaved parents are across the board.

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience/ badly behaved parents are across the board.

Yes. The type of bad behavior will depend on social class, not race.

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Absolutely the opposite. The wealthier the parents, the more entitled and obnoxious. No question after 16 years of travel / school sports.