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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Little league baseball is a time suck compared to travel soccer. Travel soccer games are an hour. Baseball games can last over 2 hours. Starting at age 8, the better kids are in a kid pitch division and playing with 9 year olds and developing 10 year olds. If your 8 year old has never played then he might play with 6,7 and 8 year olds. 
Little league goes by however old you are on Sept.1st. Is your child still going to be 8 or will they be 9 by Sept. 1st. 
Trying to do travel soccer and little league at 9 is really hard. My son wanted to play little league and winter basketball and travel soccer. To do so he had to bump down a soccer level and went from A team to B team. It was worth it to him and for us to be able to play multiple sports. He couldn't miss any soccer practices on A team to play other sports, but he can alternate practices between b team practices and other sports.[/quote]

I disagree that it is hard.  My son - middle school age - has done travel soccer and Little League for over 4 years.  What did make it a pain was adding travel baseball in this year on top!  We didn't have many conflicts - if we did we usually split them though now that he is the goalie it's harder to make soccer.  But, for us soccer is usually Friday evening or Saturday morning/mid day.  Little League is usually Saturday midday to evening and travel baseball is Sunday mornings.  Lot of baseball.

But, he can't pick and  I don't think he should![/quote]

Us too.  Our son is in his second season of doing both, u11 soccer and rec baseball.  He has been able to do both with no problem.  That does mean he has a practice or game pretty much every night in the spring , but I don’t think we have ever gone a week without at least one rain out.  He loves to be with both sets of teammates anyway.  He wants to add travel baseball this year.  I’m not going to worry about conflicts until he makes a travel baseball team, but his club is somewhat supportive of playing additional sports in the spring as long as he makes most games and at least one practice a week.
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