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@RJM posted:

The roster number I gave was for a 2011 college graduate. I don’t understand the expense and the need to travel so frequently. You’re in THE softball hotbed state. Outside nationals your furthest trip should be Southern CA. What am I missing? By the way, the 9/1 junior year contact is a joke in every sport. It’s easy to get around the rule. Many athletes verbal before junior year.

SoCal is where the best teams are. But the sport has grown significantly which is great. The Southeast, Texas, Midwest even New Jersey have national-level orgs now.

We don’t travel to all of those places but we do travel to tourneys which attract those teams - think Las Vegas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Florida. Costs will definitely go back down when SoCal opens up  


Anyway yeah it’s nuts and I am very grateful baseball looks like it will be much more manageable. Seems like softball is expensive because of the number of games, way fewer teams and no MLB-type supplements along the way.


Cheers.

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