Anonymous wrote:The coaches who run Prime Time are now running the Bishop O'Connell Team. I am guessing its a large organization and the headline may be about other staff- does prime time get/send players to O'Connell or do they get from a different area than Arlington?

Anonymous wrote:The coaches who run Prime Time are now running the Bishop O'Connell Team. I am guessing its a large organization and the headline may be about other staff- does prime time get/send players to O'Connell or do they get from a different area than Arlington?

Anonymous wrote:The parent who said the thing about parents socializing hit the nail on the head. It’s about the parents! Travel teams like Primetime are about the parents taking shots at 10am in quality inn hotel bars. Every single second of the travel team experience is fulfilling a need for parents whether it be socializing, drinking buddies, unfulfilled sports potential from their childhood. Boys need activity to keep them away from screens. But I will never let my child be a $$$ for a creepy travel org owner like the ones at Primetime, a supporting character in some dads story, or an obstacle for some hyper competitive moms attempts to get her 11 year old pitcher signed to a college team. Use the travel program if it works for your kid then leave as soon as you see the writing on the wall that your kid is just a dollar sign. If it feels like a cult then it’s not a community. If you can tell that the other parents don’t want your child to succeed then get out of there.

Anonymous wrote:The parent who said the thing about parents socializing hit the nail on the head. It’s about the parents! Travel teams like Primetime are about the parents taking shots at 10am in quality inn hotel bars. Every single second of the travel team experience is fulfilling a need for parents whether it be socializing, drinking buddies, unfulfilled sports potential from their childhood. Boys need activity to keep them away from screens. But I will never let my child be a $$$ for a creepy travel org owner like the ones at Primetime, a supporting character in some dads story, or an obstacle for some hyper competitive moms attempts to get her 11 year old pitcher signed to a college team. Use the travel program if it works for your kid then leave as soon as you see the writing on the wall that your kid is just a dollar sign. If it feels like a cult then it’s not a community. If you can tell that the other parents don’t want your child to succeed then get out of there.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t tryouts next week? I mean this kindly, but if your kid doesn’t play travel, don’t they have almost zero chance of making a public high school team?

He's in eighth grade and doing eigth grade tryouts right now. He says it's going well. He may not make the HS team, but baseball is not his primary sport. He's a good player, he just likes other sports better and so doesn't do travel. He could probably play travel if he wanted to put in the time to do it, but honestly it has always seemed like a waste of time and money if it's not your kid's passion or primary sport. I've seen 3 families that we are close with dedicate every weekend of their lives for years and years to baseball in order to support a really passionate and seemingly talented kid who was a star on their travel team. Those kids ended up going to really marginal colleges to play baseball with the hope, I guess, of MLB or transfer to a D1 school. Two of those kids (one is my cousin's kid) left the sport altogether when it was clear they weren't going to MLB or a D1 program. Those 2 kids ended up transfering to a better college after having wasted 2 years at the marginal school. The other kid got injured and ended up not even graduating from the marginal school or any college. I have to think those families wonder whether having their entire lives dicated by baseball schedules for like 8 years and spending their kids's entire childhoods at baseball tournaments was really worth it in the end.

Honestly, I don't get it. Youth athletics are out of control. It's ridiculous that preteens and teens have to specialized to the point of neglecting all other aspects of their lives if they want to play on their school's team. Money and time wise, baseball (and a lot of other travel/club sports) seem like a long con run by a bunch of grifters preying on the fears of parents that their kids won't get into college or won't otherwise succeed unless they follow the travel sport bridge to nowhere.

The kids have fun and the money is not important so I don't see an issue.

Doesn't sound like the kids had all that much fun and seems like at least one of the kids in PP's example is now a college flunked out loser.

My kid is playing varsity baseball in college but we made it clear you only play for a college you wanted to attend even if baseball wasn't an option. We kind of "struck gold" in that both baseball and one of our kid's top college choices aligned.

It helps to also know kids that play club baseball in college and very much enjoy it. If the varsity team didn't work out, my kid would have been fine playing club team for a large university (which has a top 10 ranked D1 baseball program).

Yeah, no one needs parenting advice from you.

I guess your kid is the one that flunked out?

This is your retort and you’re calling kids stupid losers? You’re a clown.

So...I guess your kid is the one that flunked out?

I hope your kid didn’t inherit your intelligence along with your baseball talent and athleticism. He’ll certainly have a long row to hoe.

Anonymous wrote:The coaches sleep with moms and they are all criminals. Parents who send their kids here are absolute idiots.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t tryouts next week? I mean this kindly, but if your kid doesn’t play travel, don’t they have almost zero chance of making a public high school team?

He's in eighth grade and doing eigth grade tryouts right now. He says it's going well. He may not make the HS team, but baseball is not his primary sport. He's a good player, he just likes other sports better and so doesn't do travel. He could probably play travel if he wanted to put in the time to do it, but honestly it has always seemed like a waste of time and money if it's not your kid's passion or primary sport. I've seen 3 families that we are close with dedicate every weekend of their lives for years and years to baseball in order to support a really passionate and seemingly talented kid who was a star on their travel team. Those kids ended up going to really marginal colleges to play baseball with the hope, I guess, of MLB or transfer to a D1 school. Two of those kids (one is my cousin's kid) left the sport altogether when it was clear they weren't going to MLB or a D1 program. Those 2 kids ended up transfering to a better college after having wasted 2 years at the marginal school. The other kid got injured and ended up not even graduating from the marginal school or any college. I have to think those families wonder whether having their entire lives dicated by baseball schedules for like 8 years and spending their kids's entire childhoods at baseball tournaments was really worth it in the end.

Honestly, I don't get it. Youth athletics are out of control. It's ridiculous that preteens and teens have to specialized to the point of neglecting all other aspects of their lives if they want to play on their school's team. Money and time wise, baseball (and a lot of other travel/club sports) seem like a long con run by a bunch of grifters preying on the fears of parents that their kids won't get into college or won't otherwise succeed unless they follow the travel sport bridge to nowhere.

The kids have fun and the money is not important so I don't see an issue.

Doesn't sound like the kids had all that much fun and seems like at least one of the kids in PP's example is now a college flunked out loser.

My kid is playing varsity baseball in college but we made it clear you only play for a college you wanted to attend even if baseball wasn't an option. We kind of "struck gold" in that both baseball and one of our kid's top college choices aligned.

It helps to also know kids that play club baseball in college and very much enjoy it. If the varsity team didn't work out, my kid would have been fine playing club team for a large university (which has a top 10 ranked D1 baseball program).

Yeah, no one needs parenting advice from you.

I guess your kid is the one that flunked out?

This is your retort and you’re calling kids stupid losers? You’re a clown.

So...I guess your kid is the one that flunked out?

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t tryouts next week? I mean this kindly, but if your kid doesn’t play travel, don’t they have almost zero chance of making a public high school team?

He's in eighth grade and doing eigth grade tryouts right now. He says it's going well. He may not make the HS team, but baseball is not his primary sport. He's a good player, he just likes other sports better and so doesn't do travel. He could probably play travel if he wanted to put in the time to do it, but honestly it has always seemed like a waste of time and money if it's not your kid's passion or primary sport. I've seen 3 families that we are close with dedicate every weekend of their lives for years and years to baseball in order to support a really passionate and seemingly talented kid who was a star on their travel team. Those kids ended up going to really marginal colleges to play baseball with the hope, I guess, of MLB or transfer to a D1 school. Two of those kids (one is my cousin's kid) left the sport altogether when it was clear they weren't going to MLB or a D1 program. Those 2 kids ended up transfering to a better college after having wasted 2 years at the marginal school. The other kid got injured and ended up not even graduating from the marginal school or any college. I have to think those families wonder whether having their entire lives dicated by baseball schedules for like 8 years and spending their kids's entire childhoods at baseball tournaments was really worth it in the end.

Honestly, I don't get it. Youth athletics are out of control. It's ridiculous that preteens and teens have to specialized to the point of neglecting all other aspects of their lives if they want to play on their school's team. Money and time wise, baseball (and a lot of other travel/club sports) seem like a long con run by a bunch of grifters preying on the fears of parents that their kids won't get into college or won't otherwise succeed unless they follow the travel sport bridge to nowhere.

The kids have fun and the money is not important so I don't see an issue.

Doesn't sound like the kids had all that much fun and seems like at least one of the kids in PP's example is now a college flunked out loser.

My kid is playing varsity baseball in college but we made it clear you only play for a college you wanted to attend even if baseball wasn't an option. We kind of "struck gold" in that both baseball and one of our kid's top college choices aligned.

It helps to also know kids that play club baseball in college and very much enjoy it. If the varsity team didn't work out, my kid would have been fine playing club team for a large university (which has a top 10 ranked D1 baseball program).

Yeah, no one needs parenting advice from you.

I guess your kid is the one that flunked out?

This is your retort and you’re calling kids stupid losers? You’re a clown.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t tryouts next week? I mean this kindly, but if your kid doesn’t play travel, don’t they have almost zero chance of making a public high school team?

He's in eighth grade and doing eigth grade tryouts right now. He says it's going well. He may not make the HS team, but baseball is not his primary sport. He's a good player, he just likes other sports better and so doesn't do travel. He could probably play travel if he wanted to put in the time to do it, but honestly it has always seemed like a waste of time and money if it's not your kid's passion or primary sport. I've seen 3 families that we are close with dedicate every weekend of their lives for years and years to baseball in order to support a really passionate and seemingly talented kid who was a star on their travel team. Those kids ended up going to really marginal colleges to play baseball with the hope, I guess, of MLB or transfer to a D1 school. Two of those kids (one is my cousin's kid) left the sport altogether when it was clear they weren't going to MLB or a D1 program. Those 2 kids ended up transfering to a better college after having wasted 2 years at the marginal school. The other kid got injured and ended up not even graduating from the marginal school or any college. I have to think those families wonder whether having their entire lives dicated by baseball schedules for like 8 years and spending their kids's entire childhoods at baseball tournaments was really worth it in the end.

Honestly, I don't get it. Youth athletics are out of control. It's ridiculous that preteens and teens have to specialized to the point of neglecting all other aspects of their lives if they want to play on their school's team. Money and time wise, baseball (and a lot of other travel/club sports) seem like a long con run by a bunch of grifters preying on the fears of parents that their kids won't get into college or won't otherwise succeed unless they follow the travel sport bridge to nowhere.

The kids have fun and the money is not important so I don't see an issue.

Doesn't sound like the kids had all that much fun and seems like at least one of the kids in PP's example is now a college flunked out loser.

My kid is playing varsity baseball in college but we made it clear you only play for a college you wanted to attend even if baseball wasn't an option. We kind of "struck gold" in that both baseball and one of our kid's top college choices aligned.

It helps to also know kids that play club baseball in college and very much enjoy it. If the varsity team didn't work out, my kid would have been fine playing club team for a large university (which has a top 10 ranked D1 baseball program).

Yeah, no one needs parenting advice from you.

I guess your kid is the one that flunked out?

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t tryouts next week? I mean this kindly, but if your kid doesn’t play travel, don’t they have almost zero chance of making a public high school team?

He's in eighth grade and doing eigth grade tryouts right now. He says it's going well. He may not make the HS team, but baseball is not his primary sport. He's a good player, he just likes other sports better and so doesn't do travel. He could probably play travel if he wanted to put in the time to do it, but honestly it has always seemed like a waste of time and money if it's not your kid's passion or primary sport. I've seen 3 families that we are close with dedicate every weekend of their lives for years and years to baseball in order to support a really passionate and seemingly talented kid who was a star on their travel team. Those kids ended up going to really marginal colleges to play baseball with the hope, I guess, of MLB or transfer to a D1 school. Two of those kids (one is my cousin's kid) left the sport altogether when it was clear they weren't going to MLB or a D1 program. Those 2 kids ended up transfering to a better college after having wasted 2 years at the marginal school. The other kid got injured and ended up not even graduating from the marginal school or any college. I have to think those families wonder whether having their entire lives dicated by baseball schedules for like 8 years and spending their kids's entire childhoods at baseball tournaments was really worth it in the end.

Honestly, I don't get it. Youth athletics are out of control. It's ridiculous that preteens and teens have to specialized to the point of neglecting all other aspects of their lives if they want to play on their school's team. Money and time wise, baseball (and a lot of other travel/club sports) seem like a long con run by a bunch of grifters preying on the fears of parents that their kids won't get into college or won't otherwise succeed unless they follow the travel sport bridge to nowhere.

The kids have fun and the money is not important so I don't see an issue.

And most importantly it’s no one else’s business how families choose to spend their time. If the kid loves it while it lasts it would seem like a pretty awesome childhood, even if some folks feel it’s a “waste” if kid doesn’t go pro someday.

Maybe I should stop letting my kid play with Lego so much, too? I don’t see much of a future in it for him.

Do Legos cost thousands and thousands of dollars? Require you to take short, expensive, overnight trips all across the country a dozen or more times a year? Disrupt your care and attention to any other children you have? Put thousands and thousands of miles on your vehicle?

What an absurd analogy.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t tryouts next week? I mean this kindly, but if your kid doesn’t play travel, don’t they have almost zero chance of making a public high school team?

He's in eighth grade and doing eigth grade tryouts right now. He says it's going well. He may not make the HS team, but baseball is not his primary sport. He's a good player, he just likes other sports better and so doesn't do travel. He could probably play travel if he wanted to put in the time to do it, but honestly it has always seemed like a waste of time and money if it's not your kid's passion or primary sport. I've seen 3 families that we are close with dedicate every weekend of their lives for years and years to baseball in order to support a really passionate and seemingly talented kid who was a star on their travel team. Those kids ended up going to really marginal colleges to play baseball with the hope, I guess, of MLB or transfer to a D1 school. Two of those kids (one is my cousin's kid) left the sport altogether when it was clear they weren't going to MLB or a D1 program. Those 2 kids ended up transfering to a better college after having wasted 2 years at the marginal school. The other kid got injured and ended up not even graduating from the marginal school or any college. I have to think those families wonder whether having their entire lives dicated by baseball schedules for like 8 years and spending their kids's entire childhoods at baseball tournaments was really worth it in the end.

Honestly, I don't get it. Youth athletics are out of control. It's ridiculous that preteens and teens have to specialized to the point of neglecting all other aspects of their lives if they want to play on their school's team. Money and time wise, baseball (and a lot of other travel/club sports) seem like a long con run by a bunch of grifters preying on the fears of parents that their kids won't get into college or won't otherwise succeed unless they follow the travel sport bridge to nowhere.

The kids have fun and the money is not important so I don't see an issue.

And most importantly it’s no one else’s business how families choose to spend their time. If the kid loves it while it lasts it would seem like a pretty awesome childhood, even if some folks feel it’s a “waste” if kid doesn’t go pro someday.

Maybe I should stop letting my kid play with Lego so much, too? I don’t see much of a future in it for him.

Do Legos cost thousands and thousands of dollars? Require you to take short, expensive, overnight trips all across the country a dozen or more times a year? Disrupt your care and attention to any other children you have? Put thousands and thousands of miles on your vehicle?

What an absurd analogy.