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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the millionth time, the OP is not talking about playing sports at the SECs, Sewanee, Kalamazoo, Hampden-Sydney, F&M, Oberlin, Denison, Conn. College of the world. OP is talking about parents bragging because their kid is going to Glenville State College in West Virginia to play baseball.

Now if their kid was born and raised in rural West Virginia? Sure - good for them for going to Glenville! But if there were raised in this area with many other - sorry to say it but better colleges around - yeah, I'm not so impressed. [/quote]

[b]Nobody wants you to be impressed.[/b] Can't you just let people be happy even if their happiness is not something that would make you happy.

Not every word out of somebody's mouth is to impress you. It's sad you think it is. [/quote]

That's why they boast about every tournament win, share 100 photos and check-ins of the family "visiting" the Ivies, brag about Ivy coach so and so "giving Larla a look"? :roll:

Travel sports parents brag and boast endlessly and are status-obsessed about getting on the right travel team, going to the right high school, playing in the right tournaments, and delude themselves that their child is going to play at the next level at status colleges like Princeton or UVA or Middlebury at the very least.[/quote]

No they don’t. You have serious self esteem issues.

Most people are happy for others when their kids are happy you have issues.

Even academic kids think they might go to Princeton to find out... maybe not. Who cares if kids strive for a high bar and don’t always reach it.[/quote]

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