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You look stupid!

Posted by Johnny On The Spot on August 29, 2026, 8:35 am

Tell your daughters to stop making social media posts with generic mailers that everyone in the nation is getting. Nobody cares that you got a mailer inviting you to a camp that “Any and All Players” can attend. It’s not a “Special Invite”. College coaches are laughing at you.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by @Johnny on August 31, 2026, 7:54 pm, in reply to "You look stupid!"

My daughter is at the tail of playing career, but while recruiting I saw "blessed to be offered" posts by football players. I just thought it was a football "thing", but recently the same type of posts for softball have popped up.

If you attend a camp, get an offer, go home and post about it but continue looking...I don't get it.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by Magic Mirror on August 30, 2026, 10:53 pm, in reply to "You look stupid!"

As much as it sickens me to see that softball social media is almost nothing more than brags (humble, hubris or straight BS) and AI generated slop - we have no one to hate but "the game".

Not the game of softball - the game of chasing college dreams.

Stick in this long enough, and most every parent - consciously or unconsciously - wants to see their kid play on ESPN in the WCWS. So we chase, and we spend, and we do things that should embarrass us in the real world. We're too invested, in every way, to maintain an objective view of anything.

And for some, it works out. A handful of kids in our area make it to P4 and every few years one or two will make a WCWS. And for a couple of dozen maybe, they'll get a full scholarship. And maybe a few dozen get at least some money and a spot on a D1 roster.

Social media is one of the few ways for most kids to market themselves, and of course the parents are going to get involved in that. We can't help ourselves.

So I hate it too. You look stupid doing it. My kid's past travel ball, but I looked stupid doing it too... but we play the game as it exists today.

Travel ball and college sports are unrecognizable to what anyone of us knew when we were our kids' ages. It's fantastic for a small minority and still good for many, but it's failing too many.

But "they" got us - hook, line and sinker. And we keep on biting.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by Correct on August 31, 2026, 12:20 pm, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

100% correct. You still have to play this crazy system of travel sports. Like I always said before it’s the parents that want it more! Crazy how these travel teams at such a young age travel everywhere and play over 100 games. Ridiculous! Those coaches should never coach if they are doing this! And spare me the the oh your daughter was bad or you’re too cheap blah blah blah. Parents are to blame for all this nonsense but this is the new life for travel sports.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by No Breaks on August 31, 2026, 2:26 pm, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

And how about the "lets get back out there" not even a month after the season just ended. They threw from March deep into July and we are giving kids, who are still developing, two to three weeks off before we start practice again. Its absolutely insane and its the parents fault, they are just bored and this is all they have to live for. Most of these kids don't want this, even Sarah Softball needs a break whether she wants it or not, be the adult!!!!!

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by Right on August 31, 2026, 4:03 pm, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

100%! These parents these days lost it! They think they have to do something every day. I see a couple Twitter accounts where kids are posting every single day. Sorry if I was a coach that kid would be a hard pass. Any normal kid need a social life also. But this is the new life. I just sit back and laugh. Oh and my kid was terrible and didn’t make that good travel team 😂😂

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by @Right on September 1, 2026, 12:37 pm, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

How about you? Are you successful with the choices you've made professionally? Good role model? Or are you cutting down players who enjoy the moment because you want others to fail as you did?

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by @Right on September 1, 2026, 11:23 am, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

Jocelyn Alo took 1000 swings a day. So you'd be a hard pass on her. Sure. The elite pitches throw many days a week. You want to recruit the pitcher who spends her days off at the pool, with her social life. Sure.

When they go to recruit, they want players who perform on the big stages against the best. You know who those girls are? The girls who are working on their craft 5-6 days a week.

November, December, and the beginning of January have plenty of options to take breaks from softball.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by No Breaks on September 1, 2026, 12:52 pm, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

So does August and even September if your kid is 16U, there is zero reason to play in those months if recruitment is the goal. Go work out, go hit, but rest the arms, you wont forget how to throw.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by @No Breaks on September 1, 2026, 1:57 pm, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

You want your kid (and her team) going into college exposure with two months off? Great plan.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by come on, read! on September 2, 2026, 11:53 am, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

You can take a break. It is good. Healthy. I dont think any one is advocating for susie softball to go and eat donuts and sit on her ass. taking a mental break is healthy for them. They can still work on softball stuff and workout. but taking a "formal" break and that away from the structure is sometimes good! no one is sayin, lets roll into recruitment time after sitting on your ass and doing nothing!!

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by No Breaks on September 2, 2026, 12:35 pm, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

Thank you!

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by Agree on September 3, 2026, 9:55 am, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

August can absolutely be used as a hiatus period from softball. Let things heal up, enjoy some of the other things in life. Then use late November into January as a shutdown period, to refuel and recover for the spring and summer.

The flipside of that is don't be surprised when players catch up or pass you/your daughter from working hard during those periods.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by Mybaby on August 29, 2026, 2:04 pm, in reply to "You look stupid!"

You’re 100% right. And 99.9% of the time it’s the parents who are running the kids accounts.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by @Mybaby on August 30, 2026, 11:11 am, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

Your stats are erroneous. I know plenty of players who post on their own. I also know plenty of parents who wouldn’t post for their daughters. That’s their responsibility.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by Laughing? on August 29, 2026, 10:06 am, in reply to "You look stupid!"

Sounds like someone is still butthurt their precious baby never got any mail

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by @Johnny on August 29, 2026, 9:54 am, in reply to "You look stupid!"

Think how stupid you look commenting on a teenager's choice of social posts. There's nothing negative about celebrating any milestone in the sport, you creepy ass adult.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by Clown World on September 1, 2026, 1:00 am, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

What milestone? A generic mailer that my left foot could get in the mail if it registered for it online? There is nothing to celebrate. That’s the point. These kids are actually hurting themselves by making these posts and pretending that a school actually chose them specifically to receive these “invites”. It’s nothing but the parents stroking their own egos. It is pure stupidity. Was Megan Grant making posts about all of the mail she got? Alo? Pickens? A real player with class stays humble. These posts do not help you get recruited.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by Brains on September 1, 2026, 12:23 pm, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

Someone with some brains here! Be humble!

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by Stupid on August 29, 2026, 12:51 pm, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

Yeah they all look stupid listing that they got mail. Sorry but not sorry. I love the come back from those special parents that reply back, oh you must haven’t gotten any mail or oh your daughter didn’t make the team. Blah blah blah. Do you parents ever look in the mirror and say wow I might be the problem. lol

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by @Stupid on September 1, 2026, 11:30 am, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

Maybe you should look in the mirror, and say you are making fun and belittling teenaged girls. Grow up.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by Stop on September 1, 2026, 4:51 pm, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

Oh stop crying. Read what people are saying here. It’s mostly the parents who are running these social media accounts. And I would bet you run your kids account.

Re: You look stupid!

Posted by NoDiddy on August 29, 2026, 8:56 pm, in reply to "Re: You look stupid!"

please explain why having dreams and working towards them is stupid???

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