@Francis7 posted:Fun fact: The correlation is 1 to 1 with respect to parents who think HS baseball doesn't matter and/or just 100% BS politics to parents of players who are not getting playing time on the HS team.
I've never met the parent of a starting HS Varsity player whose parent thought HS baseball was 100% politics.
When my son was a freshman starter on varsity, the best advice I ever got was from a father of a starting junior: "Don't sit with the other parents of the team. Five to ten of them think their kid should be playing and they sit there and moan and complain about it through the whole game. It's a cancer for the team and I recommend staying away from it."
My son is now a junior and his advice stands true 3 years in a row.
Wait for college, it changes pretty dramatically in my experience. Parents of kids who are moaning about the program seldom stay more then a year. They get weeded out pretty quick, plus every other parent is a veteran by this point and quite honestly don't care to listen.