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If you think little league parents are bad you should see the select team parents. I've seen some of these wastes of oxygen get excited when their kid gets a "scholarship" to a junior college.
Just as a point of fact, juco baseball is typically very high-level and competitive baseball. They don't have the same scholarship limitations (jucos get 24 baseball scholarships vs. D1 programs limited to 11.7- plus at a juco they're required to be a full ride and not a partial scholarship) and if a kid goes off as a freshman he can immediately be drafted unlike playing at a 4-year college where if you get drafted and don't sign the contract out of HS you can't get drafted again until after your junior year.
It's a big reason why former A&M pitcher and now arguably the Astros top pitching prospect, Tyler Ivey, transferred from A&M to Grayson College. He got sideways with Childress, went to Grayson for a year, killed it, and then was a 3rd round pick by the Astros after his sophomore season.
Even still, just a fraction will be drafted. And a fraction of those will get a big MLB payday. So from a cost standpoint, if parents want to spend 10s of thousands of $$$ on Junior's select career to pursue their dream of making it big, more power to them. Just remember: That Associate's from Podunk Community College won't be much to fall back on.
This is the most misunderstood point I see about select baseball. You are talking about a very small minority that think that way. The vast majority of parents who put their kids in Select baseball do it because it's fun and they believe it is good for the kids. Same reason they put them in league ball or piano lessons or theater or anything else.
Lol. BS. The vast majority do it because they think their kids are too good to play with little leaguers.
Now you are talking about two different things.
****ty league ball is absolutely a driving reason. But that's the fault of Little League, not the parents.
curious as to why that is Little League fault. The basic premise is to allow every kid to play baseball. The All star teams are the ones that you see on TV. Its core mission isnt to be the best baseball in the regular season.
Some of it is the fault of the league and some of it is just the nature of it.
One specific problem to the Little League organization is the idea of closed base against open base. They are completely wrong on that, especially in 12u. Closed base is for t-ball and coach pitch.
2nd problem is not enough games.
3rd specific to Little League is administrative but I'll let someone else speak to that.
But the main issue I think is most parents just like the Select better. It's more fun for the parents and for the kids. The kids get to play far more games, do it in more places, and with teammates they choose. Parents get to control the environment and have a lot of fun on weekends.
My son plays both. And our smaller town does struggle like the rest keeping kids in Rec ball. six of the ten on his select team play both. The parents who don't play their kids in both voted down rec not because of competition but because they wanted to control over who their kid plays with and plays for. And because we have a lot of fun on weekends
I didn't spell that out too well and hate typing in my phone.
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