Originally Posted By: Jackmcbrax

Originally Posted By: ikillbux
Originally Posted By: trox28
Originally Posted By: CD
Originally Posted By: ikillbux
Heck, when we were kids, our parents probably didn't even come to half our games, and they were darn sure never at a practice..


Dang. I can't remember my parents ever NOT being there. I'm trying to give the same support for my kids.

And...I just ordered a 2015 DeMarini Voodoo Overlord. CD.



Same here CD..My parents were always heavily involved in my sports and dad always helped coach.


Y'all STILL act like you don't have a clue what I'm talking about??? Let me try to repeat this again: This is NOT an issue of being a good parent, or not--I do not say nor believe that you are a good or bad parent if you never miss or always miss. This is NOT even an issue about youth sports.

This IS me making an observation that I've never seen anything captivate such a huge percentage of whole communities (the kids, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends), for anywhere from 7 to 10 months of the year (some 12 months). Entire businesses have been created around it, and those businesses are exploding. Social media is growing more and more exclusively about it. It looks like a huge wave that covers everybody and everything. Only the kids are actually playing the game, but the REALLY INTERESTING THING is how caught up the adults are in it.

Now, is this wrong or right? I don't know!!!!...not even trying to say it's either. But I'm shocked that almost nobody else will even agree that what I'm seeing is occuring, and that it is hard to explain the attraction that so many adults have to something they themselves aren't even participating in (especially so many adults who never played it themself). My point about our parents above wasn't to debate what makes a good parent. It was to say that back then (80's) there was a TINY percentage of the community who might have even realized a game was being played. Today is looks like 1/2 of every town is at the field more days of the week than not. There's not a grossly critical accusation made in any of that, but damn y'all are sensitive about it!!!...and that sensitivity and defensiveness just confirms my feelings about the whole matter. It's more than just a hobby when you can't ignore criticism.

For the record, DeMarini makes one heckuva bat, and YES it makes a difference (even in younger players). Happy now??


I see where you are coming from. My son played travel ball for 6 years and in our travels you could see both ends of the spectrum
from all out vulgar displays of vicarious living through the kids to parents wanting their child to play better competition in order to elevate their game.I agree that DeMarini makes a fine product,but I always waited for the clearance sale on justbats,baseballexpress ect...


I have seen it alot and seen it pay off for kids and seen it not pay off. And I agree that some parent live through there kids. But you also have to think, maybe that is all they are into. They don't do the outdoor thing, other sports, heck, some don't even do church. That is a little more puzzling to me as when I lived in Huntsville, I would drive by the ball fields out in the chase area and they were playing ball on Sunday. Travel ball and high school ball is taken off since I graduated 15 years ago. And I played at a school that won a lot of baseball games. Times have defiantly changed. I hope my son and daughter tries out sports and sticks with one but they will defiantly spending time outdoors doing things.