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[quote=Anonymous]The above poster summarized it well. It is all star season, so I’m sure a lot of the posts are about that, as teams all over Virginia win their district and move up the ladder toward the state tournaments. They make a ridiculously big deal out of this, like the kids are superstars. That’s probably what is coming across in the many posts you are seeing. In our experience a lot of these kids quit or discover they aren’t as good as they thought they were once they are out from under the Little League dadball nonsense.

Travel is also overblown with each organization that puts on tournaments having a “state championship” or “nationals” or some other thing. Some tournaments will even name all stars for the tournament, and invite those players to another event. All of which is just a huge moneymaker, of course. Plus there are normal tournaments every weekend, mostly with 8ish teams, and they’ll name a champion for each of those events.

Certainly an accomplishment for all of these teams, but likely not as impressive as parents make it out to be.

You’ll see the herd thin out when they move to the bigger field at 13 and again when they start facing good pitchers regularly (HS). In the meantime, lots of big dreams without the requisite dose of reality. The posts should slow by then :-)

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