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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Travel sports parents lie because they can’t come to terms with the last decade of carting their kids around was a complete waste. [/quote]

I absolutely think it’s this. 100%. [/quote]

Without touching the lying claim, what an odd take. How is spending time with your kid in a healthy physical activity a waste?[/quote]

It’s the travel cost/time commitment that is the waste. [b]It did absolutely nothing to get your kid into college - which is why most people do travel[/b]. If you want to spend time with your kid in a healthy physical activity, why aren’t you doing rec?  It saves you thousands of dollars, and time spent traveling to tournaments and practice.

I mean if you want to blow thousands on travel for sh¡ts and giggles, have at it. But most people have a college goal in mind. [/quote]

My kid did travel baseball because he loves the game. It didn't have a damn thing to do with colleges.[/quote]

Ok. Then you’re one of the people that has money to waste on travel even though he could have played for much less. But you’re in the minority. At least around here. [/quote]

Nope. Maybe 10% of his travel team is continuing at the collegiate level (not club) And I'm in Old Town. Rec and HS don't play a third as much as Travel and virtually all tournament play is travel related. Bottom line, if you want lots of at bats, you play travel.

It sounds like you don't know anything about this.[/quote]

I have a kid that plays on a high level travel team (70% are D1 commits) and I don’t understand this whatsoever.

We told our kid after 8th grade that travel baseball was only in the cards if the plan was to play in college.  [b]If it isn’t, then what’s the point of spending thousands on team fees and travel?[/b]

Our kid thought about it and did try other sports in freshman and sophomore year as well, but decided he wanted to commit to baseball and put in the work. Talking to several D1 and D3 coaches and will be playing in several marquee tournaments as well…we will see what happens.

However, we weren’t investing all this money for a hobby.  There really isn’t rec baseball at HS so it would have meant focusing on other sports or pursuing other interests, which he fully understood (and playing HS ball which is always an option in his case based on his HS).[/quote]

Because it’s fun. I realize that doing a sport for the pure joy is a concept you have never experienced and cannot possibly understand, but that is the answer. It’s fun. [/quote]

Name one other thing you kid does for "fun" that you spend thousands of dollars a year to participate.

Would you spend thousands per year for your kid to play paintball with a group every week?  I bet your kid thinks that is fun too.  If the answer is yes, then at least you are fine with whatever your kid does for fun.[/quote]

Fashion design. (Really.)

Also I have a friend whose kid is a competitive chess player and they spend far more than I ever spent on club soccer.

You seem extremely unfamiliar with the concept of fun, so you probably don’t understand how many activities are out there that are done purely for fun but that cost a lot to be done at a high level. Music, art, fashion, gaming, and lots more: all have enormous costs when done well. And very few are done with an eye to college discounts or admissions. [/quote]

I mean, whats the point of going to the beach on vacation? Waste of time and money. Christmas? Pure foolishness.[/quote]

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