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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lacrosse isn't, and probably never will be, equal to baseball. More kids play baseball, more colleges have programs, etc. It is also a more affordable game for kids to play. Don't confuse the lunatic following lacrosse has spread over a few dozen prep schools with something that is a real national scope game. [/quote]

In this area, lacrosse is the premium spring  sport at privates in dc/baltimore.   A big bonus for the high schools is that the college programs are disproportionately at elite schools. You seem stuck in the 80's.[/quote]

No, you seek stuck in the lax cheerleader section. What I wrote is lacrosse is a sport taken too seriously for what it is at a couple dozen prep schools. In the DMV + Baltimore you see that. Go 100 miles west or 100 miles south and you don't see that. Baseball is huge in every corner and county of America. Yes, some good academic colleges have lacrosse. But every one of those colleges has baseball and baseball goes hundreds of more colleges deep in the sport. In this area prep school lacrosse is the world to those idiot parents. But then there's the other 99% that doesn't care about it. [/quote]

So your opinion is that one percent of the dc/Baltimore private school parents care about lax?  My son actually plays baseball but nearly ninety percent of the sporty boys at his school play lax.  So, no, not buying your numbers.[/quote]

I read the post to say that this area (defined as DC/Baltimore) is extremely focused on lacrosse, but overall in the rest of the country baseball is bigger.  So I don't think you are in disagreement with that poster.  He might be exaggerating somewhat -- generally it is reported that there are about 500,000 high school baseball players, and the participation numbers for boys' high school lacrosse range from about 110,000 to 165,000, depending on the source.  In terms of numbers of programs, the National HS Sports Federation reports about 2600 boys' lacrosse programs and almost 16,000 boys HS baseball programs.  Lacrosse is definitely fast-growing whereas baseball is probably more static in terms of participation numbers.  But nationally baseball still far more prevalent.[/quote]

If his talking about nationally, how is that relevant?  My point is that most local privates are more willing to focus resources on lacrosse than baseball.[/quote]

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