Reply to Positives of doing travel sports?

Forum Index » Sports General Discussion

Reply to "Positives of doing travel sports?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always think this when the little league world series is televised in August-Sept. It's kids who are the best on their local little league teams who form an all star team and that team plays all over the state, all over the district, regions, and then forms the national team that goes to Williamsport Pa. I don't think kids are getting added/dropped; often the announcers will say how the kids have been together since age 8-9 and are playing on the national stage at age 12-13. I always think those friendships must be so tight for those boys and for their parents. I realize only 1 team will make it to Pa. and it's unlikely to be yours, but it would be so fun to play all around the state, region, district, as far as they could get. And I imagine the kids have a ball staying in one hotel after the next.

Bc it's a family friendly telecast, the announcers always get into the kids' personal history, and I think the challenge is if you have a job or a professional life requiring your constant presence. Seems like for many kids on the team -- their dads own their own business (a large enough one w employees who'll manage it when he's out of town 2-3 days/wk all summer) and moms are SAHMs. Can't imagine how it'd work if the parents were doctors or lawyers or had any kind of job where they worked for others -- it'd be hard to say you just aren't available for much of the summer bc you're following your 12 yr olds baseball team to rural Pa.[/quote]

Williamsport reminds me of the idyllic boys of summer experience every year. Damn -- I would take 3 months off work to drive the team around if my DS were to get on an all star team that was on that road.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics