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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Travel sports parents lie because they can’t come to terms with the last decade of carting their kids around was a complete waste. [/quote]

I absolutely think it’s this. 100%. [/quote]

Without touching the lying claim, what an odd take. How is spending time with your kid in a healthy physical activity a waste?[/quote]

It’s the travel cost/time commitment that is the waste. [b]It did absolutely nothing to get your kid into college - which is why most people do travel[/b]. If you want to spend time with your kid in a healthy physical activity, why aren’t you doing rec?  It saves you thousands of dollars, and time spent traveling to tournaments and practice.

I mean if you want to blow thousands on travel for sh¡ts and giggles, have at it. But most people have a college goal in mind. [/quote]

My kid did travel baseball because he loves the game. It didn't have a damn thing to do with colleges.[/quote]

You can’t love the game in a rec league?  Interesting. [/quote]

Tell me you know nothing about baseball without telling me you know nothing about baseball.[/quote]

Actually I know soccer - and there are about a zillion rec options. Don’t know much about baseball. The only thing I do on now is my friends son played rec all through high school and loved it. Enlighten me. Tell me what I’m missing. [/quote]

PP uses that annoying phrase all the time.  Really wish they would stop.

There is no HS baseball rec league like there are for soccer or basketball.  The option is to have your kids play other sports (ultimate is a popular one for former players) and just play on the HS team assuming they don’t go to Madison or Sherwood or a school like that.  If they do, it really is you switch to another sport.

There are rec adult leagues, though not sure if they want a minimum (ie old) age so that the young kids aren’t running the tables.[/quote]

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