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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]and bat at least once[/quote]

why is THAT acceptable? Once?
It's REC League!
Shame on them[/quote]

She said Majors.

Majors is not a rec league.

Majors is placement by tryout only and is the level that eventually competes at state and maybe beyond to the LL World Series.[/quote]

Not quite. Teams that compete in state and the LLWS are All-Star teams.

And even in the LLWS, all players on the roster must play. See the rules: http://www.littleleaguetoolkit.org/Assets/forms_pubs/tournaments/2015/baseball-rules.pdf [/quote]

Yeah, but kids on those teams don't suck.  In fact, they have usually managed to play travel and rec for that season, with the specific intent of being on that roster for the run at the LLWS.  "Having" to play those kids isn't really a problem. [/quote]

OK ... so then why is it a problem in Majors, whose teams are neither travel teams nor LLWS-eligible teams?

Look, Little League has an "everyone plays" tradition. If you don't like it, take your kid away from his friends and everything else the Little League experience has to offer, then herd him onto a travel team where he can go out of town all the time and maybe not play. Then kid yourself that this travel team is automatically light-years ahead of Little League just because people pay and travel extra. [b]Just don't be shocked at high school tryouts when the kids from the "everybody plays" Little League team turn out not to have been irreparably harmed by the experience.[/[/b]quote]

That's stupid. The "everybody plays" kids don't face quality competition. They also don't get the face time and "street cred" that comes with attending high school coaches' baseball camps and playing on travel teams that use facilities such as VBC (which provide part-time jobs and one-off gigs to said coaches).

The travel kids have paid their dues, no matter how much they play in the actual games. They deserve the spots on the high school teams, and thank goodness coaches recognize that you can count on them.[/quote]

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