Agreed dadofa 17.
We, they have tons of time to do other things. The weekends are generally baseball, but not the weekdays.
Depending on the tournament location, if its somewhat local, it's only a few hours on that weekend day.
Everyday 2016 was serious about baseball and didn't enjoy playing with kids who weren't. Period!
Just came back from a college camp this weekend and still after years of playing, kid was pretty excited he did well and kept pulling off his earphones to tell me about how good the hit he had felt, telling about his play in the infield etc...
Sure there's times when he misses a 4th of July party, it's simply called sacrifice and it's a good builder of character.
And my guess is most of the people, dads on this board have kids who are very good.
No site has educated me more than this one.
In fact when the recruiter at the camp talked to the kids and their parents for 30 minutes, I already knew everything he had to say.
btw - I'll ask my kid tonight if he will steer his kids to play.
Bet he will!