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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^That PP wins. I can't stand watching baseball and even one game would send me into tears of boredom[/quote]

If your kid is very good, it is incredibly fun.  There is nowhere else I rather be. But yes, for the average player, it is boring.[/quote]

Mom of a baseball player here. That jab at “the average player” was unnecessary and wrong. My kid has always loved baseball, when he was average and when he was very good. And we’ve always found it fun to watch - it is slow and meditative, and it relaxes me to sit there a little ways off the field and watch the kids, watch the clouds, zone out. We also now make a family outing to the batting cage, and we all hit for a workout. It’s fun.

The most extreme thing we’ve done? Time, money, and shifting vacations, probably. I was lectured by two other baseball parents at the end of the last fall season that if my son wanted to be truly elite he needed to be adding private lessons and workouts weekly even during the on season. That is where I drew my line - the kid was doing travel baseball and trying to fit in basketball practice for his high school team - no more. He can just be less than elite, I guess, because he still needs to pass physics and geometry, no matter how elite his pitching gets.[/quote]

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