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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren’t tryouts next week? I mean this kindly, but if your kid doesn’t play travel, don’t they have almost zero chance of making a public high school team? [/quote]

He's in eighth grade and doing eigth grade tryouts right now. He says it's going well.  He may not make the HS team, but baseball is not his primary sport.  He's a good player, he just likes other sports better and so doesn't do travel. He could probably play travel if he wanted to put in the time to do it, but honestly it has always seemed like a waste of time and money if it's not your kid's passion or primary sport.  [b]I've seen 3  families that we are close with dedicate every weekend of their lives for years and years to baseball in order to  support a really passionate and seemingly talented kid who was a star on their travel team[/b].  Those kids ended up going to really marginal colleges to play baseball with the hope, I guess, of MLB or transfer to a D1 school. Two of those kids (one is my cousin's kid) left the sport altogether when it was clear they weren't going to MLB or a D1 program. Those 2 kids ended up transfering to a better college after having wasted 2 years at the marginal school. The other kid got injured and ended up not even graduating from the marginal school or any college. I have to think those families wonder whether having their entire lives dicated by baseball schedules for like 8 years and spending their kids's entire childhoods at baseball tournaments was really worth it in the end.

Honestly, I don't get it. Youth athletics are out of control. It's ridiculous that preteens and teens have to specialized to the point of neglecting all other aspects of their lives if they want to play on their school's team.  Money and time wise, baseball (and a lot of other travel/club sports) seem like a long con run by a bunch of grifters preying on the fears of parents that their kids won't get into college or won't otherwise succeed unless they follow the travel sport bridge to nowhere. [/quote]

Those people are delusional. When was the last time Yorktown, WHS, TC/AC, West Springfield, etc sent a kid to the majors? Maybe two kids in 15 years? Out of the thousands and thousands and thousands of kids playing baseball in the DC area. My son is now a sophomore in college playing low key club and loving it. I sure don't miss sitting next to loser dads like this going on and on about how Tyler is going pro. Tyler isn't going pro. Tyler will be lucky to ride the bench at Gettysburg. And then he graduates (if hes lucky) with some crappy and worthless sports management degree. You just dunked $100,000 and 12 years of your life in the trash.

Look- if your kid is having fun, that is one thing, but you aren't grooming him through Prime Time or Reds to be a star. They just want your money.[/quote]

There's truth to this. Going pro is a dream but it happened for 3 young men that my son played with. Most of his cohort went on to D1 and D3 programs and are now gainfully employed. Companies value college athletes for their discipline, time management and competitiveness. I'd much rather my sons belong to a college team than a frat.

The benefit of travel baseball is that it provides a productive outlet for young men. They lift weights, exercise, belong to a community and tend to avoid substance abuse. They strive to reach goals, learn to operate as part of a team and have relationships with non-parent adults who (in the best cases) leave lasting impressions. My son's college coach is a real builder of men. I'm so grateful for his presence in my son's college experience.

Without sports, teen boys fill those after-school hours and weekends with wall-to-wall video games and Snapchat. Many don't exercise or develop any fitness, it's really a waste.

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