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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Club soccer can be balanced with other sports but baseball is hard to balance because of the length of games, especially if your child plays on a league with doubleheaders on Sundays.[/quote]

Baseball with travel soccer is tough to balance even with baseball isn't travel. Kids have to show up an hour before the baseball game and the games themselves can go almost 3 hours.  Then factor in two practices a week of 90-120 minutes apiece just for rec baseball plus mid-week games that conflict with soccer.  And that's just our experience with rec baseball for kids the same age as OP's.  Fortunately baseball games weren't on Sundays while soccer games were.

If your kids didn't already try rec baseball plus travel soccer at the same time then travel baseball plus travel soccer could crush your soul from a logistics standpoint. I can't imagine what travel baseball time commitments are like but assume they are worse than rec, which is already terrible.[/quote]

I agree you have no idea how long a baseball game is going to take. Boring as shit and one inning could take 5 minutes or an hour. [/quote]

Ha.  Yes.  The first time my kids in the youngest grades made a comment about not wanting to go to a baseball practice---I jumped on that common and suggested giving it up.  They were both natural hitters (according to our former D1 coach who begged us to stay), but there ain't anyway in hell we were going to be baseball parents.  Hot, long and oh-so boring and not enough expenditure of energy.

Basketball and soccer and Futsal....so much more exciting.  I prefer the indoor/Futsal games because they are high-scoring and fast like basketball and you can be down by many goals(points) and take all back in the last minutes of a game until the buzzer.

Most kids I know that played soccer, lacrosse and basketball maintain lifelong fitness because the cardio requirements are so high.  Many I know ended up runners/triathletes, etc post-colllege.[/quote]

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