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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]With team sports, messing-up can cost your whole team the victory.[/b] Especially baseball for example. It adds a different layer of pressure, inevitable failure, and acceptance by the player and the teammates.

Just a bit different than individual sports.

But if your kid is a HS freshman, he should get to pick for sure. [/quote]

This attitude is exactly what I was referring to.  I also don't think it's true; at the highest levels, players don't blame each other like this.  They've played enough to have made mistakes and also to know they can happen to anyone, at any time.  It's also unproductive.  Ultimately, if a team wants to win, they usually collectively need to play well enough to buffer those individual mistakes that happen.

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There are positions where players stand alone. A goalie in penalties, a field goal kicker, anyone shooting after a technical. They may not get blame from their team, but most will blame themselves. Learning how to cope with that pressure is part of team sports [/quote]

Right - my point was that if it comes down to a single goal or single run or field goal, the *team* wasn’t doing their job for it to be so close.

Moreover, learning how to cope with that pressure is only true for a few positions in team sports, if you buy into that line of thinking.  I get that some people are drawn to positions and good for them.  The larger point is that most people overestimate the benefits of “team” sports, as does the OP’s husband.[/quote]

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