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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially [b]can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball[/b] and who's lives don't revolve around it.  [/quote]

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.[/quote]
I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

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I don’t understand whom you might be referring to.   [/quote]
Go take a trip to a youth baseball tournament. It's all rich UMC kids because the price of these clubs excludes everyone else. They aren't the best athletes and most of them will fail by high school.

But damn do today parents swallow the Kool aid and think little Larlo is the next Mike Trout despite being undersized, slow, and lacking in everu athletic trait (just like them). [/quote]

You clearly haven’t been to top tournaments in GA or Alabama.

These clubs are fine letting good kids play for free (even if you are rich)…but the best players do play travel.

There is a very wealthy local white kid for Georgetown Prep that just played on the 18u USA Baseball team that won worlds…as well as kids like Ethan Halliday who is also wealthy and will probably be the #1 MLB draft pick next July.

Harvard Westlake and Corona in LA also have some likely MLB 1st and 2nd rounders and they are both wealthy and kids of former MLB players.[/quote]
How cool of them to let the poor kids play with them.

Baseball is a rich kid sport because parents don't want their kids competing against the real athletes. Same with club soccer. [/quote]

That’s a different point…though all top basketball players also play AAU/travel basketball as well.  Those teams have big name NBA player support and major corporate sponsors, so again, anyone good enough to make a team like Team Durant gets to play.[/quote]

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