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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the mindset of parents who sign their pre-teens up for intense travel sports?  Are they trying to keep up with the Jones'?  Hoping their kid will get a baseball scholarship?  Hoping their kid will be the next David Beckham?  I just don't understand the appeal of an entire family sacrificing all of their weekend and weeknight time to these leagues.  Patrice's multiple night s a week sometimes an hour away from home, tournaments lasting all weekend long four hours away, how do so many parents get sucked in?[/quote]

They are delusional failed athletes themselves [/quote]

Tell me you never played sports seriously without telling me.

Personally, I’ve never met a “failed” athlete.   Sports are about trying hard and learning about yourself. I know two guys who played basketball professionally internationally.  Both got workouts with NBA teams, and both learned that they are not one of the 450 best in the world at basketball.  I wonder if PP considers that “failure.”   I sure don’t.

Somewhere in a storage unit, I have a gold medal from the world championship in an obscure sport.   I value my 3:40 marathon and my 260 bench press  (both total couch potato stats) far more because they were harder for me and more recent.  For OP, I’m sure both would be failures, but that’s not really how sports works in my experience. [/quote]

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