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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your husband isn’t a coach and isn’t best friends with a coach or a lobbyist with the coach, your kid isn’t making the all star team. It doesn’t matter how good they are. Truly, stop thinking about it and hope that your child goes on vacation before all the kids start talking about it. The team is predetermined by the appointed coach of the team. He will pick his drinking buddies’ kids. Your child is not going to make it. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it. If you don’t have a penis, and a baseball related favor to give their kid in return they’re not picking you. Tell your kid that all star is rigged and it’s not the best players and move on. Seriously. It’s not happening. Your kid can bat .800 and pitch strikeouts only and they’re not making it. [/quote]
Yup.

Learned this the hard way with my oldest for 10u all stars when I was a naieve parent. My son hit a legit 750 and was the best hitter in the league by a huge margin. Also one of the best fielders and pitchers. He was left off the team for a 2nd grader who's dad is the varsity coach at the local HS. [/quote]

One year on all stars, they took 3 kids who could not hit at ALL (truly, not at all- 11 or 12 years old and could not hit a ball to the outfield- on a little league field) and didn’t pitch or anything either. All three predictably batted sub .100 for the all star season and played 100% of the time. Their parents were of course “connected” in various ways (and there are so many ways to be connected)

That being said, it sometimes happens in travel ball as well. My son was on a travel team where the worst player was favored to a ridiculous level. Everyone was confused but of course no one ever said anything about it. The rest of the team was run very well & fairly (mostly merit based)- other than this one particular kid. Turns out the kid’s dad was the head coach’s long time accountant. LOL. But it was just the one kid and everyone liked the team and coach otherwise….

All stars can be fun but most of the time is a joke. [/quote]

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