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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.  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.  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]

The kids have fun and the money is not important so I don't see an issue. [/quote]

And most importantly it’s no one else’s business how families choose to spend their time.  If the kid loves it while it lasts it would seem like a pretty awesome childhood, even if some folks feel it’s a “waste” if kid doesn’t go pro someday.

Maybe I should stop letting my kid play with Lego so much, too?  I don’t see much of a future in it for him.[/quote]

Do Legos cost thousands and thousands of dollars? Require you to take short, expensive, overnight trips all across the country a dozen or more times a year? Disrupt your care and attention to any other children you have? Put thousands and thousands of miles on your vehicle?

What an absurd analogy.[/quote]

Why is it hard to believe that some kids and yes their PARENTS too like this. It's social. Are you the lady knitting in the corner? Then no, it's probably not fun, but I love watching my kids play and I generally like socializing with the other parents in Holiday Inn lobby bars. [/quote]

Youre a drunk, duh.[/quote]

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