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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]

So play rec.  If you are doing the sport for pure joy, why would you spend thousands for the privilege?  [/quote]

Not PP, but my kid who will play D3 baseball really can’t play rec. It would be dangerous, not fair, and not fun for anyone. He throws 85, which is good but not D1 level at Junior year. Getting plunked by a pitch like that can injure you, and kids need to have practice with incrementally increasing pitch speeds to practice getting out of the way, turning their backs, etc. at the right time. It’s one of the reasons many high schools have Freshman teams - you just can’t safely put most 14 year olds up against a 17 or 18 year old. So that is one reason my son doesn’t play rec.

The other is he takes great joy in competition - he loves seeing how he stacks up, getting beat and then getting better and beating the one who beat him. These kids follow each other on social media, talk a little trash, then give each other manly hugs in the hand shake line. It’s a GAME. And games are only fun when you play against people who are your match.[/quote]

This happens in HS baseball, but my kid has never played the same travel team 2x in any season.  Honestly, it’s rare he would know a single player on any opponent team since they are coming from all over the East Coast.

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