All this talk about these elite teams and their animosity towards each other has inspired me.
I am starting a new Travel organization. It will operate under the following guidelines:
We will not charge for tryouts or call ourselves something like Mac N' Sietz or Midland.
We will not open a big baseball facility and charge for lessons, with or without a basketball team. Nor will we run summer or winter camps.
We will not claim to be scouts for professional baseball teams.
Our coaches will just teach baseball and support the kids, as well as give any appropriate recommedations to other coaches.
We will not lay claim to our former players whether they played one game or 100 games for us.
We will play in competititve tournaments.
We will have kids back next year providing they really want to be back (work hard, etc.) and they will play, too.
We may add a pitcher or two if need be at a tourney but the kids who were on the team will still be playing.
We will charge only what it costs to play and will not require them to take lessons with us.
We will talk to HS Coaches who are interested in their players getting better and work with them. We will not let a HS Coach hold their player back if we can help it.
We will help our players assess what their goals are both for school and baseball and try to help them understand that percieved status only matters places like this website: that maybe going to Timbucktu State on a partial scholarship may not be all it's cracked up to being.
We won't count how many of our players are drafted or playing D-1. We'll be counting how many had a great experience with us.
We won't tell the kids or their parents how bad some or all of these other guys are. We figure they are bright people and can make up their own minds.
Sounds like a plan. I had nothing to do next year anyway.
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