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Orange Blooded [4762]
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I just took son of to get new baseball gear for the travel season
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Jan 4, 2024, 2:53 PM
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He's not yet 9, and wearing a size 9 men's cleat.
His hand is an adult M.
He got fitted for a 32 inch bat.
I'm not sure if he's in the right sport, but I'm not sure I can afford to feed him much longer.
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All-In [30224]
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Think you're about a year away from flights to baseball games in far away states***
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Jan 4, 2024, 3:10 PM
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Re: Think you're about a year away from flights to baseball games in far away states***
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Jan 4, 2024, 3:33 PM
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depends on where your at. we had plenty of tournaments here in the upstate to satisfy. did plan one away weekend a season just for fun. If you are in Atl area, absolutely no need, most teams go there to play at Lakepoint etc with East Cobb program being there
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Lot o points [182227]
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Lakepoint has it's own Varsity restaurant now.***
Jan 4, 2024, 8:26 PM
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Orange Blooded [4762]
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Lot o points [156973]
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All-TigerNet [12395]
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all 3 of my boys played travel baseball all the way thru high school
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Jan 4, 2024, 3:31 PM
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not that we had aspirations of grandiose baseball careers, they just all loved playing the sport and we joined teams where we enjoyed hanging out with the families.
yeah, it got expensive.
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Orange Blooded [4762]
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I was more shocked at the size of my kid
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Jan 5, 2024, 10:05 AM
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he's in 3rd grade and looks like he should be in middle school. 99 percentiler since birth. He cried after practice because his feet hurt because his cleats were a size and a half too small, whoops.
I do not expect a superstar, just a kid happy to play ball with his friends.
Everyone keeps telling me it gets expensive but my daughter is an equestrian and we've been traveling all over for her so in comparison this is budget friendlier. Finding a sport she loves and excels in competitively has changed her life... so many life lessons learned in sports.
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Heisman Winner [106764]
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My kid isn't THAT big, but he has been in adult shoes since he was 9
Jan 5, 2024, 10:09 AM
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which is infinitely more expensive as you are well aware. Not to mention he goes through them pretty quickly. We just find stuff on the Nike app on big sale and get them.
He will soon be able to wear my shoes, not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing. He is in a size 9, I wear an 11. He already steals my flip flops.
Having your kids go from cheap kids clothes to designer adult clothes is a cottam eye opener.
Also, FML for introducing my wife and daughter to Aviator Nation.
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Oculus Spirit [81935]
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I didn't know what Aviator Nation was, so I looked it up.
Jan 5, 2024, 10:14 AM
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In every picture, this chick looks like her parents are making her try on winter coats in JC Penny, and she wants to be meeting her friends at Chick Filet.
https://www.aviatornation.com/collections/outerwear
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FFS. TRDJuanita#3 wanted an AN sweatshirt for xmas
Jan 5, 2024, 10:17 AM
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TRDJ saw they are like 12,000 pesos and told her to F-OFF.
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Oculus Spirit [77002]
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Lutz at pricing in pesos!
Jan 5, 2024, 10:21 AM
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Everything sounds super expensive!
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Broski a peso conversion is not needed here.
Jan 5, 2024, 10:26 AM
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You ever priced a sweatshirt from them fools? And HAVE YOU SEEN they terrible products?
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Oculus Spirit [81935]
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That doesn't sound free***
Jan 5, 2024, 10:37 AM
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Orange Blooded [4762]
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Yeah same, fortunately he's not a sneakerhead yet so I can get
Jan 5, 2024, 10:42 AM
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what's on sale. He's generally happy as long as I don't try to make him wear non athletic shorts outside of school (uniforms). He refers to anything with a collar as "formal wear."
Daughter of has to wear uniforms too, so she's mostly lululemon/aerie which ain't cheap but isn't aviator nation expensive either. Most of her expense is the horse gear. $400 boots to shovel horse #### in. Good lord that child has a lot of expensive hair and beauty products though. Apparently this is trendy. FML.
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A lot of travel ball is a huge rip off. I use to work at All-Star sports in
Jan 5, 2024, 10:37 AM
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Florence and on tourny weekends these parents would come in and drop an easy 1-2K on new equipment.
New 500 dollar Nokona glove in kangaroo skin or some bull ####
2 bats @ 400 each
New pants, new cleats etc etc.
I loved asking them what their batting average was with all of this equipment. .150
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All-In [44420]
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Is that line of questioning what led to
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Jan 5, 2024, 10:40 AM
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Such a long and prosperous sports equipment sales career?
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All-In [47066]
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That job helped me a lot in a previous career I had
Jan 5, 2024, 10:48 AM
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those same guys that worked there started working for some of the major companies in the basketball inflation business.
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Orange Blooded [4130]
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Re: I just took son of to get new baseball gear for the travel season
Jan 8, 2024, 12:44 PM
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What gets old quickly is week long tournaments with one game per day and sucky teams.
You play a team at 8 AM, mercy rule them in 45 minutes, and then nothing until 3 PM the next day.
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Re: I just took son of to get new baseball gear for the travel season
Jan 8, 2024, 3:51 PM
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What do you do for a living?
Travel sports are super ridiculously expensive. If you ain't a doctor or lawyer you better start casing out some banks to knock off. LOL
I would never encourage someone to do such a thing but that is how expensive it is. Goo Luck!
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Re: I just took son of to get new baseball gear for the travel season
Jan 8, 2024, 3:53 PM
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Let me add I had one son travel basketball and one son in the Wando marching band. Since Wando band if great they travelled all over the country.
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Re: Look boss, it can be expensive
Jan 8, 2024, 4:00 PM
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LOL. That are broke!
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