Reply to "I'm so glad I had my son skip.."

2017LHPscrewball5,000+ posts

I think travel ball has suffered significant "mission creep" so to speak. Used to be (maybe 10+ years ago) only the really good players played travel ball. These days, there are probably some locales and ages where 50% of kids are playing travel ball and there are lots of teams that, if not for the snazzy uniforms, look like your average park ball team. So what is a good 12u team supposed to do? They can either continue to beat up on some mediocre 12u teams or they can go compete against average 14u teams (who aren't really that good for 14u but can provide ample competition for the 12u team.) I'm guessing only the really good teams get to use "elite" and "premiere" in their names - that must be the difference.

11/12/1510:44 AM

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