Travel Baseball

[Adam]

Anyone have a boy in a travel program? 

Someone should really make a movie about travel ball. It is pretty nuts.

[Lou]

I'm a maybe.

[Adam]

My kid destroys baseballs 

 

[St1ck]

1 minute ago, Adam said:

My kid destroys baseballs 

 

Looks like Ohtani's swing. 

[Lou]

2 minutes ago, Adam said:

My kid destroys baseballs 

 

Holy crap. That was awesome.

[m0nkey]

Love the "Holy shit!" in there

[Blarg]

15 minutes ago, Adam said:

Anyone have a boy in a travel program? 

Someone should really make a movie about travel ball. It is pretty nuts.

You know who had a kid in travel ball? Trolldaddy.

R.I.P.

[Adam]

7 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

Love the "Holy shit!" in there

I was in shock by how high and far he hit it. 

[Lou]

Just now, Adam said:

I was in shock by how high and far he hit it. 

Yeah, I had to watch it a few times. 

[Brandon]

The holy shit was just as good as the hit

[katie]

My coworkers son is joining a traveling team after fall ball. Some of the coaches sound like real assholes. 

[Adam]

18 hours ago, katie said:

My coworkers son is joining a traveling team after fall ball. Some of the coaches sound like real assholes. 

Some of the coaches are pretty gnar during games. Running a travel ball program is a career for many of them. $300/mo per kid. If you run multiple teams you could rake in $100/mo profit on each one if you're smart. If your program has a 9U, 10U, 11U, 12U, 13U and 14U team with 12 kids each you can make a decent little living doing it. You attract kids (parents) usually by winning so some of these guys get pretty insane when things aren't going well. Sucks for the kids.

[Taylor]

My daughter might be in travel ball in a few years.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Adam, it’s well worth it if your kid is legit. My friends sons played travel ball - first round and fifth round draft picks. Played travel ball through 20.  Been fun to watch their minor leagues.  Yeah it costs an arm and a leg.  But there’s money in boys sports. 
 

My daughters played club soccer and their league games were in 3 states with a lot of tourneys. Easy 500-600 a month all-in. 

Theres little dough in girls sports though. 

[Adam]

Just a single but this swing is just so beautiful 

 

[Lou]

Just now, Adam said:

Just a single but this swing is just so beautiful 

 

Better than Bobby Abreu.

[Adam]

Dinger last weekend. apologies to @yk9001 my nephew did the video

 

 

 

[Jason]

6 hours ago, Adam said:

Dinger last weekend. apologies to @yk9001 my nephew did the video

 

 

 

Indeed his swing is smooth 

[Angel Dog and Beer]

My 10yo son is in travel ball, just completed his first season. It was a lot fun because we had a pretty low-key group that was just interested in getting better while playing in some local tournaments. But there sure are some serious AF teams out there. Teams with multiple jerseys, embroidered coffin bags, 4 different bats, Oakley shades, playing in tournaments every weekend. Gnarly stuff.

 

If you're on Insta, you must follow this guy: mpthreebaseball

He is a travel ball Dad but makes fun of all the hype, the parents, umps, etc. Funny stuff.

 

Your boy has a good powerful swing! I'm actually trying to get mine to swing harder. 

[HanfordGuy]

Real Sports did a segment on travel ball a few years back. Big business.
 

 

[Adam]

On 11/30/2022 at 9:44 PM, HanfordGuy said:

Real Sports did a segment on travel ball a few years back. Big business.
 

 

It really is. Wish I had thought of it.

[Adam]

On 11/30/2022 at 2:45 PM, Angel Dog and Beer said:

My 10yo son is in travel ball, just completed his first season. It was a lot fun because we had a pretty low-key group that was just interested in getting better while playing in some local tournaments. But there sure are some serious AF teams out there. Teams with multiple jerseys, embroidered coffin bags, 4 different bats, Oakley shades, playing in tournaments every weekend. Gnarly stuff.

 

If you're on Insta, you must follow this guy: mpthreebaseball

He is a travel ball Dad but makes fun of all the hype, the parents, umps, etc. Funny stuff.

 

Your boy has a good powerful swing! I'm actually trying to get mine to swing harder. 

I am assuming there are enough tournaments going on in your area that you can stay plenty busy playing locally. The furthest we've travelled is to Long Beach and La Mirada for tournaments. There's multiple tourneys every weekend in OC for the most part and the competition is good enough that we don't have to pack the family truckster too often. That would suck. 

We are gonna do an AZ and CO tournament next year. Should be fun. 

My kid is 10U too. Fun age. They really start to play the game well at this age. 

We did not intend to do anything other than Little League until he was 12/13 but he loves it and can't get enough.

[Tank]

5 hours ago, Adam said:

I am assuming there are enough tournaments going on in your area that you can stay plenty busy playing locally. The furthest we've travelled is to Long Beach and La Mirada for tournaments. There's multiple tourneys every weekend in OC for the most part and the competition is good enough that we don't have to pack the family truckster too often. That would suck. 

We are gonna do an AZ and CO tournament next year. Should be fun. 

My kid is 10U too. Fun age. They really start to play the game well at this age. 

We did not intend to do anything other than Little League until he was 12/13 but he loves it and can't get enough.

You’ll need a good car for traveling. Try this, only get the Article Blue.

[Adam]

Little asian kids can't pitch

https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxyMFVgutG001kpTxo-UrYz3h7ZAHMahn1

[Adam]

Anyone got any kids still going in LL All stars? We got eliminated Saturday. Ethan tossed a couple of gems tho