Me either. I tried to argue against it in my local LL, and the response was -- well every other LL does it. So our travel team is separated from the official LL.
I was thinking about this too, but mostly the general "traveling team" phenomena rather than specifically baseball.
I came to the conclusion that the small percentage of people that go from a traveling team in any sport (soccer, my specific thought) to a high level of college or pro is actually pretty small. But, large enough to convince people to spend money and time at a small percentage.
Sort of the same phenomena that keeps people in casinos.
Agreed -- it's part of the early specialization process. Got to get out there and be seen.
LOTS of money spent for very little return. NYTimes recently ran a series of articles on the reality of sports schollys as well as the time kids have to commit to keep'em.
As a AAU guy once said to me (paraphrasing) - "Imagine if the parents spent as much time on their kid's school work as they do yelling at me for putting them in a zone defense."
Me either. I tried to argue against it in my local LL, and the response was -- well every other LL does it. So our travel team is separated from the official LL.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about this too, but mostly the general "traveling team" phenomena rather than specifically baseball.
ReplyDeleteI came to the conclusion that the small percentage of people that go from a traveling team in any sport (soccer, my specific thought) to a high level of college or pro is actually pretty small. But, large enough to convince people to spend money and time at a small percentage.
Sort of the same phenomena that keeps people in casinos.
Agreed -- it's part of the early specialization process. Got to get out there and be seen.
ReplyDeleteLOTS of money spent for very little return. NYTimes recently ran a series of articles on the reality of sports schollys as well as the time kids have to commit to keep'em.
As a AAU guy once said to me (paraphrasing) - "Imagine if the parents spent as much time on their kid's school work as they do yelling at me for putting them in a zone defense."
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