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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

I don’t understand whom you might be referring to.

Go take a trip to a youth baseball tournament. It's all rich UMC kids because the price of these clubs excludes everyone else. They aren't the best athletes and most of them will fail by high school.

But damn do today parents swallow the Kool aid and think little Larlo is the next Mike Trout despite being undersized, slow, and lacking in everu athletic trait (just like them).

You clearly haven’t been to top tournaments in GA or Alabama.

These clubs are fine letting good kids play for free (even if you are rich)…but the best players do play travel.

There is a very wealthy local white kid for Georgetown Prep that just played on the 18u USA Baseball team that won worlds…as well as kids like Ethan Halliday who is also wealthy and will probably be the #1 MLB draft pick next July.

Harvard Westlake and Corona in LA also have some likely MLB 1st and 2nd rounders and they are both wealthy and kids of former MLB players.

How cool of them to let the poor kids play with them.

Baseball is a rich kid sport because parents don't want their kids competing against the real athletes. Same with club soccer.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

Wut? Baseball does not exactly require a ton of athleticism. I think you’re deeply confused.

Must be a travel ball parent who doesn't understand strength, speed, and athleticism matter a lot in baseball. It's the rich parents who can't accept that you can't buy talent.

But keep paying for your son to take a thousand soft toss reps. I'm sure it'll pay off. Lol

Strength? Yes. Speed? Yes. Athleticism? Nope. Sorry, baseball is one of the most leisurely sports out there.

Yes I'm sure Aaron judge lacks in athleticism.

I love how you go straight to the most athletic specimen in MLB history to make your point. Baseball players are more athletic than the average Joe, but they’re not even close (you know, overall) to basketball or soccer players, for example.

One can have an incredible talent for something like baseball and also not be particularly athletic.

The average professional baseball player is over 6'0 and 200 lbs.

They are way, way, way more athletic than the average person. The exception is some pitchers. Real baseball requires strength, speed, and power. Your average pro baseball player is more athletic than 99.9% of the population.

Pitchers can certainly be very unathletic.

Trevor Bauer was very honest that he was a terrible athlete in general, so he focused on pitching.

He said when they did overall athletic tests for one of the teams (measure vertical leap, speed time, etc.), the person conducting the tests told him he had lower scores than most average 40 year old pickup players.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

Wut? Baseball does not exactly require a ton of athleticism. I think you’re deeply confused.

Must be a travel ball parent who doesn't understand strength, speed, and athleticism matter a lot in baseball. It's the rich parents who can't accept that you can't buy talent.

But keep paying for your son to take a thousand soft toss reps. I'm sure it'll pay off. Lol

Strength? Yes. Speed? Yes. Athleticism? Nope. Sorry, baseball is one of the most leisurely sports out there.

Yes I'm sure Aaron judge lacks in athleticism.

I love how you go straight to the most athletic specimen in MLB history to make your point. Baseball players are more athletic than the average Joe, but they’re not even close (you know, overall) to basketball or soccer players, for example.

One can have an incredible talent for something like baseball and also not be particularly athletic.

You all do realize you are proving the point that wealthy people are just as likely to be obnoxious sports parents as poor people. You just cannot help yourselves, can you? So little self-awareness and so much money.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

I don’t understand whom you might be referring to.

Go take a trip to a youth baseball tournament. It's all rich UMC kids because the price of these clubs excludes everyone else. They aren't the best athletes and most of them will fail by high school.

But damn do today parents swallow the Kool aid and think little Larlo is the next Mike Trout despite being undersized, slow, and lacking in everu athletic trait (just like them).

You clearly haven’t been to top tournaments in GA or Alabama.

These clubs are fine letting good kids play for free (even if you are rich)…but the best players do play travel.

There is a very wealthy local white kid for Georgetown Prep that just played on the 18u USA Baseball team that won worlds…as well as kids like Ethan Halliday who is also wealthy and will probably be the #1 MLB draft pick next July.

Harvard Westlake and Corona in LA also have some likely MLB 1st and 2nd rounders and they are both wealthy and kids of former MLB players.

Just returned from my kid's basketball game, and I have to say, I tend to agree with OP. The school our team played tonight (they are both public) is located at the outskirts of the county, is bad academically and facilities-wise but pretty decent at the sport. So we knew going in that we would probably lose, especially since our team is young and doesn't have any seniors on, so, whatever, right? It's a regular high school game, not an Olympic final, right?

HA!

Long story short, I've never witnessed worse parent behavior at any school sports event in my life (and my child plays AAU, so we've been around quite a lot). There was this woman sitting at the bottom bench who would scream bloody murder non-stop at the ref, her own child (with instructions) and at the players on our team for god-knows-what. Her friend two rows up, also female, would squeal like a pig at each ball turnover. At one point the first woman got in a verbal altercation with one of the players, and then the player's mother started screaming back and was removed from the stands. The original screamer, somehow, wasn't removed, possibly because it was a home game for them, so she got up, elated, and started jumping up and down, dancing and prancing, even before their team won, as they eventually did. Seriously?

I honestly think this behavior stems from people having nothing worthwhile going on in their lives so they're celebrating their kid's lame free throw as if said kid just received a Nobel/Pulitzer/Oscar/ - or an NBA trophy -and while doing that, they need to put other players down. This is ridiculous and pretty off-putting. And the funny thing is, the kids themselves, players and spectators alike, usually behave well, it's their idiot parents who act trashy.

Rant over. Flame away.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

I don’t understand whom you might be referring to.

Go take a trip to a youth baseball tournament. It's all rich UMC kids because the price of these clubs excludes everyone else. They aren't the best athletes and most of them will fail by high school.

But damn do today parents swallow the Kool aid and think little Larlo is the next Mike Trout despite being undersized, slow, and lacking in everu athletic trait (just like them).

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

Wut? Baseball does not exactly require a ton of athleticism. I think you’re deeply confused.

Must be a travel ball parent who doesn't understand strength, speed, and athleticism matter a lot in baseball. It's the rich parents who can't accept that you can't buy talent.

But keep paying for your son to take a thousand soft toss reps. I'm sure it'll pay off. Lol

Strength? Yes. Speed? Yes. Athleticism? Nope. Sorry, baseball is one of the most leisurely sports out there.

Yes I'm sure Aaron judge lacks in athleticism.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

Wut? Baseball does not exactly require a ton of athleticism. I think you’re deeply confused.

Must be a travel ball parent who doesn't understand strength, speed, and athleticism matter a lot in baseball. It's the rich parents who can't accept that you can't buy talent.

But keep paying for your son to take a thousand soft toss reps. I'm sure it'll pay off. Lol

Strength? Yes. Speed? Yes. Athleticism? Nope. Sorry, baseball is one of the most leisurely sports out there.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

I don’t understand whom you might be referring to. The inner city baseball teams are horrible because the best athletes play football. These teams literally couldn’t beat a middle school team and barely have pitchers that can reach the catcher.

It’s all very confusing now because the inner city basketball teams are also fairly bad, but the top players get poached by private schools. They still play but not for their zoned schools.

The best minority DMV baseball player is the pitcher for St Albans and the son of a former NFL player (and quite wealthy). Alabama commit.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

Wut? Baseball does not exactly require a ton of athleticism. I think you’re deeply confused.

No, that poster is correct.

Baseball doesn’t require a ton of of athleticism at the younger ages (and paid lessons and training can help younger kids get ahead), but things change a lot by the time high school arrives. There aren’t many spots on the field available for less athletic kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

Wut? Baseball does not exactly require a ton of athleticism. I think you’re deeply confused.

Must be a travel ball parent who doesn't understand strength, speed, and athleticism matter a lot in baseball. It's the rich parents who can't accept that you can't buy talent.

But keep paying for your son to take a thousand soft toss reps. I'm sure it'll pay off. Lol

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.

Wut? Baseball does not exactly require a ton of athleticism. I think you’re deeply confused.

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

This really burns the up.
They attribute those losses to bad luck.

I've heard and seen it all from those people. Baseball parents are the worst. Most are well off and entitled jerks.

The whole club baseball circuit exists so they don't have to play with the more athletic kids (i.e. athletically gifted minorities) who can't afford to spend thousands a year playing baseball.