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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a parent of a kid in rec baseball, not travel, and I've never seen drinking at the games. But, I find the phenomenon described in this thread interesting, and it's reminding me of an Atlantic article I read about how parents today don't have friends they way parents in previous generations did. Basically, the argument was that parents devote so much time to their kids that they don't/can't cultivate friendships or hobbies of their own.

Then, reading this thread and knowing what I do about the demands of travel baseball (one reason we aren't going down that path, at least for now), [b]it makes me wonder if these parents are using the travel baseball as their social outlet. [/b]

Does that make sense? I'm not trying to condone the drinking in any way (I am no teetotaler, and there are long, slow baseball games when I'd love to have a beer in hand...if I didn't have to drive home! That's really the sticking point...plus the people who drink to excess). I'm just trying to connect the dots between these strange trends: youth sports-obsessed culture + parents not having social outlets = parents drinking at games?
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if the kid takes it seriously enough, especially when they are younger and need rides to practice, you're going to spend a very large portion of your weekends and afternoons around the parents on your kids team. They may not be your best friends, but you're probably seeing them for a few hours (more during tournaments) each weekend plus several hours during the week (until the kids are old enough to be left alone at practice) [/quote]

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