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Anonymous wrote:Yes, in our area at least, fall is more low-key and developmental. Spring is more competitive and when they do a draft.

Daddy ball is a real thing, and there are some volunteer parent coaches that will stick some kids in outfield all game long, while their kid always gets to play shortstop or pitch. But hopefully you get a good coach who gives every kid a chance at the key positions.

Alexandria Little League All Stars 10-13 last year were.... I shit you not... only the coaches kids. Not a single kid whose dad wasn't invloved made the cut. Shame on all of them.

Pathetic.

ANSLL is almost all like that, too

Pretty much every LL across the country is this way. If dad isn’t a coach or board member (or best friends with the all star manager…some sort of a personal “in”), might as well just schedule a vacation during all star season and spare your kid the disappointment. Even if a kid somehow makes it past the above “criteria” due to a selection process that is actually fair, he will just ride the bench.

Exception: ace pitchers.

And guess what? LL all stars means zero once LL is over- everything changes- and it is pretty fun to watch if your kid sticks with baseball.

Sadly true and our experience as well. Also agreed that after LL everything changes. But unfortunately for my son he still didn’t grow. He remains the smallest kid out there.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, in our area at least, fall is more low-key and developmental. Spring is more competitive and when they do a draft.

Daddy ball is a real thing, and there are some volunteer parent coaches that will stick some kids in outfield all game long, while their kid always gets to play shortstop or pitch. But hopefully you get a good coach who gives every kid a chance at the key positions.

Alexandria Little League All Stars 10-13 last year were.... I shit you not... only the coaches kids. Not a single kid whose dad wasn't invloved made the cut. Shame on all of them.

Pathetic.

ANSLL is almost all like that, too

Arlington Little League is like that too. Daddy ball is real!

We’ve really lucked out in ALL
And have had very good coaches. Some aren’t even parents of kids on the team

ALL regular season is great, we too have lucked out. All the all star teams are a coach’s kid and his best friends/aa rec team though (since the teams are formed when they are 8 and with little change unless you know someone on the all stars committee). All stars is daddy ball at its finest though. I went to one of the games last year— pitcher was the main coaches kid, only infield position that wasn’t an assistant coaches’ kid was first base. Stayed that way the entire game, they would rotate the coaches kids in the infield, and every one else was delegated to the out field or first base. Talking to other parents over the years, this isn’t an anomaly. My youngest just graduated out of little league, but honestly the all star stuff really disgusted me. Selection was really extremely subjective, they have kids vote but then ignore the results if the committee feels a parent was slighted, they have “try outs” for all stars but then cancel them and don’t bother to reschedule.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, in our area at least, fall is more low-key and developmental. Spring is more competitive and when they do a draft.

Daddy ball is a real thing, and there are some volunteer parent coaches that will stick some kids in outfield all game long, while their kid always gets to play shortstop or pitch. But hopefully you get a good coach who gives every kid a chance at the key positions.

Alexandria Little League All Stars 10-13 last year were.... I shit you not... only the coaches kids. Not a single kid whose dad wasn't invloved made the cut. Shame on all of them.

Pathetic.

ANSLL is almost all like that, too

Arlington Little League is like that too. Daddy ball is real!

We’ve really lucked out in ALL
And have had very good coaches. Some aren’t even parents of kids on the team

That's a bit of a red flag.

No it’s not.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, in our area at least, fall is more low-key and developmental. Spring is more competitive and when they do a draft.

Daddy ball is a real thing, and there are some volunteer parent coaches that will stick some kids in outfield all game long, while their kid always gets to play shortstop or pitch. But hopefully you get a good coach who gives every kid a chance at the key positions.

Alexandria Little League All Stars 10-13 last year were.... I shit you not... only the coaches kids. Not a single kid whose dad wasn't invloved made the cut. Shame on all of them.

Pathetic.

ANSLL is almost all like that, too

Arlington Little League is like that too. Daddy ball is real!

We’ve really lucked out in ALL
And have had very good coaches. Some aren’t even parents of kids on the team

That's a bit of a red flag.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, in our area at least, fall is more low-key and developmental. Spring is more competitive and when they do a draft.

Daddy ball is a real thing, and there are some volunteer parent coaches that will stick some kids in outfield all game long, while their kid always gets to play shortstop or pitch. But hopefully you get a good coach who gives every kid a chance at the key positions.

Alexandria Little League All Stars 10-13 last year were.... I shit you not... only the coaches kids. Not a single kid whose dad wasn't invloved made the cut. Shame on all of them.

Pathetic.

ANSLL is almost all like that, too

Arlington Little League is like that too. Daddy ball is real!

We’ve really lucked out in ALL
And have had very good coaches. Some aren’t even parents of kids on the team

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, in our area at least, fall is more low-key and developmental. Spring is more competitive and when they do a draft.

Daddy ball is a real thing, and there are some volunteer parent coaches that will stick some kids in outfield all game long, while their kid always gets to play shortstop or pitch. But hopefully you get a good coach who gives every kid a chance at the key positions.

Alexandria Little League All Stars 10-13 last year were.... I shit you not... only the coaches kids. Not a single kid whose dad wasn't invloved made the cut. Shame on all of them.

Pathetic.

ANSLL is almost all like that, too

Arlington Little League is like that too. Daddy ball is real!

I’ll be single soon

Anonymous wrote:10 is not too young if they listen to the coaches and don't goof off, even if they aren't super athletic. Coaches will work with the kids who are trying to improve and have no time for the ones distracting their teammates. The learning curve can be steep, for the first season sometimes I think that the kids are never going to figure it out but within a couple seasons they become regular members of the team.

Rec league kids miss practices and games all the time, it makes it tough on the coaches but that's the nature of the leagues. The worst is those stupid plays where we are missing 3-4 kids on the same day.

Agreed. Usually an assistant coach will work one-on-one with kids who are new to the sport no matter their age or division. Additionally, no coach expects attendance at all practices and games (two practices per week at the beginning of the spring season which segues into one practice and two games per week, and if there are rain cancellations, then it might be something like one practice and three games per week). It is the nature of rec league and is impractical to be able to make it to all practices and games - kids get sick, get injured, play other sports, have play rehearsals, etc. If you know you'll miss, just let the coach(es) know before games so they can have a plan to avoid a forfeit (usually, you can request players from other teams).