Have you ever heard the prices it is to play for a travel team? Why are you actually paying that amount of money? Is it worth it to pay that much? Is playing that much, really worth the amount you are paying?
During the summer I don't think that my family is ever home. My brother for the last 4 years has been on a traveling baseball team. While he was on a baseball team,I played on a club softball team.
Last year for my brothers team,he had a tournament almost every weekend. He had only a couple in Wisconsin, and the rest where out of state. He went to Ohio,Michigan,Iowa,and Georgia. Where as my softball team only stayed in the state, but we also had a tournament every weekend.
In order for me and my brother to do these teams our parents had to put out a lot of money. This summer for my brother to play it will cost around 600 dollars. We were told that if our parents were going to pay all this money we better enjoy it,and work our hardest. I think that in order to play a sport in the summer you have to be really dedicated. You have to be able to know that your whole summer is basically going to be that sport and that you aren't really going to have any free time. For the 2 summers that i played i really enjoyed it, it might be just because i love the sport, and never really got sick of playing.
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My brother also plays tournament baseball and also basketball, and while most of his tournaments have been in the state they still cost a lot of money. They especially get expensive when you have an entire family that comes along. It is almost like the family is taking mini-vacations every weekend and in the end all the mini-vacations seem to add up to one large vacation. I know that sometimes I regretted that as a family we always went to his tournaments instead of taking a real vacation, but looking back now I wouldn't give up some of those weekends for the world. They were great experiences for me and my brother and our entire family.
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