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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they just started playing last year they won't make the teams.  Baseball games are kind of a joke (there is no competition to play against as many/most of the other middle schools in DC can barely field a team).  However, there were a ton of kids who tried out for the team this past year and even kids 
who are year-round travel players (for years and years) did not make the team.  
Basketball is similar if not more competitive to make the Deal team except there IS competition from other middle schools as most can field a competitive team.

Most if not all of the kids playing either sport use the Deal team as their 3rd or 4th team of the season (meaning they are simultaneously playing on a ton of other teams).  So it makes it really hard to make the teams but the whole experience is kind of haphazard and clearly a sort of recreational fun thing to do and nothing serious.  [/quote]

This assessment is right on. [/quote]

Agreed.

Deal is just too damn big.  I think 100 or so boys tried out for baseball for 28 spots.

It would be nice if the school would come up with some sort of intra-mural after school program - using baseball as an example the kids who were cut could constitute 5-6 teams and I bet there are 7th and 8th grade kids who didn't even try out because they knew they had no shot.

Meanwhile other under enrolled MS and HS can barely field teams because the schools are so small and the Council hems and haws while trying to pluck up the courage to take on charters and fix school boundaries in DC.[/quote]

IIRC Deal has been asking DCPS to allow multiple Deal teams for a long time, but it is perceived as "unfair" to give one school more coaches and the chance to take first, second and third place. But IMHO, if you are going to put 25% of middle schoolers in one school, you have to give them equal chances to play as kids in the other schools.[/quote]

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