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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He has to be all in. 
You have to be all in. 
Would he be joining for 9U in the fall?

It really depneds on the organization, but we have two kids in travel baseball. Fees are about $3000 a year plus $100 a week for training plus all the new gear and the bats are $300-$400. Travel is required usually once in the spring plus memorial day, 4th of July and probably at least 2 other tournaments. For my 11U we will have have probably 7-8 weekends this year that require a hotel and at least one parent to be with him. The hotels can range from 2-3 nights and are usually around $200 a night. We have one this summer that's $500 a night for 3 nights and another that's $400 a night for 2 nights. It really adds up and is a lot if you have other kids. We usually would bring our whole family, but some families can't or don't want to do that. The younger siblings usually don't love sitting out for 5 hours in 95 degree heat watching baseball. 
You cannot do sleepaway camp until August and it limits when you can go on family vacations. 
You cannot miss tournaments. If you are not on board with this, do not sign up. [/quote]

This is one of the most concise and accurate assessments of travel sports I’ve ever read.  They real do drain you of everything: money, time, vacations.

I’m the mom of two boys, the first did travel soccer and it nearly broke our family due to time commitments.  The second wants nothing to do with travel after being dragged along to tons of soccer events, games, tournaments.[/quote]

+1 on how these travel leagues demand all of your free time.  I get that some kids “love” the game, but kids need to learn that there’s more to life than baseball, soccer, etc…[/quote]

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