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Does it make you sick to hear the teams being called TRAVEL BALL TEAMS. especially when 80 percent of the teams in Ohio never get any further than Columbus.
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Back in the mid to late 90's when I first started coaching travel teams we would go to Kokomo,Ind Canton, Michigan Ripley, West Virginia Sluggerfest ect ect ect. Figured that's what a travel team was susposed to do.After a few years I figured out that I didn't have to travel any farther than Central Ohio to get beat
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great point big daddy!
does travelling the I-270 outer beltway qualify as a travel ball team?
It can take 2 hours during rush hour to get from the south to the NW points!
does travelling the I-270 outer beltway qualify as a travel ball team?
It can take 2 hours during rush hour to get from the south to the NW points!
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Due to the Economic situation the Country is in now, you might be a Travel Team if you drive to the next county to play.
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This is beginning to sound like a Jeff Foxworhty Bit
Ok I'll Bite. You might be a travel team if you have more than a t-shirt & a visor for a uniform :lmao:
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This is beginning to sound like a Jeff Foxworhty Bit
You might be a travel team if you have more than a t-shirt & a visor for a uniform :lmao:
Viper! you just might get something started with the Jeff Foxworthy notion.
You might be a Travel Team if your DD's lessons and equipment cost more then some peoples car.
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from where we are we can go three states in less than 20 minutes each way... travel ball, I guess.
Seriously, we build our teams according to the talent we have. Our older teams plan on traveling much farther than we will. We have aspirations of going to the USSSA World Series at Disney this year. If all goes well...:yahoo:
Seriously, we build our teams according to the talent we have. Our older teams plan on traveling much farther than we will. We have aspirations of going to the USSSA World Series at Disney this year. If all goes well...:yahoo:
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This is beginning to sound like a Jeff Foxworhty Bit
You might be a travel team if you have more than a t-shirt & a visor for a uniform :lmao:
I don't know. I've seen some Laser teams take care of business in t-shirts.
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So what's wrong with traveling to Columbus unless you're a Michigan football fan?
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I don't know if it makes me "sick," but travel ball sure has changed from what it used to be. Just saying that makes me feel old and I'm definitely not that old yet, haha!
When I played we travelled every weekend to the biggest and best tournaments we could find in order to challenge ourselves and play the best competition. It WAS travel ball. One weekend might have been in NY, the next in Cincy, the next in Chicago, etc. etc. We wanted to be the best. The number of tournaments was a lot less and the number of teams was a lot less as well though, too. The dynamics have changed drastically. There was no question as to what nationals you aimed to qualify for and no one questioned where you should be playing on the weekends because everyone knew. But, like I said, times have changed. There are people on this board that have been around travel ball longer than I have as coaches and/or players that can attest to this.
My team this year will travel quite a bit, but the girls will also be seen by a lot of college coaches and gain valuable exposure to top level teams. JMHO.
When I played we travelled every weekend to the biggest and best tournaments we could find in order to challenge ourselves and play the best competition. It WAS travel ball. One weekend might have been in NY, the next in Cincy, the next in Chicago, etc. etc. We wanted to be the best. The number of tournaments was a lot less and the number of teams was a lot less as well though, too. The dynamics have changed drastically. There was no question as to what nationals you aimed to qualify for and no one questioned where you should be playing on the weekends because everyone knew. But, like I said, times have changed. There are people on this board that have been around travel ball longer than I have as coaches and/or players that can attest to this.
My team this year will travel quite a bit, but the girls will also be seen by a lot of college coaches and gain valuable exposure to top level teams. JMHO.
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Last year we were in Colorado, Ohio, Nashville, Chicago, Kentucky, & Pennsylvania. Does that fit the classic description of travel ball? Now if only gas prices continue to come down!
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This is beginning to sound like a Jeff Foxworhty Bit
You might be a travel team if you have more than a t-shirt & a visor for a uniform :lmao:
Slammers wear their "sweet" white t-shirts every tournament... can't afford the visors though....
On the other hand, I've seen quite a few teams with top of the line uniforms that can't play catch ;&
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True dat chaos. True dat.
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Jeff Foxworthy softball, you might be a redneck travel softball team if?......... your center fielder runs out of dip and asks mom for some of hers
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Perhaps that's why some teams prefer t-shirts, so they can roll their Marlboros up in their sleeves?
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