Facts.

Accountability and Discipline.

Share if you agree. Stay to play is blatantly stealing from parents and organizations. A lot of parents bust their asses to provide the travel ball experience for their children. Why do tournament organizations think they deserve kick backs on overpriced rooms? Do the tournament organizations think parents are idiots or do they think parents owe them donations? Why would any parent or organization pay more for the same rooms they could get cheaper by booking them themselves? Do these tournament organizations really think they are entitled to parents and organizations money? Have these tournament organizations ever heard of Airbnb and other affordable rental options? Gate Fees I have no problem with gate fees. But damn have someone at the gate collecting the freaking money. Asking organizations to pay you gate fees at registration advertises how lazy and entitled you really are.

Parents Please Read. Have you ever wondered why travel baseball is so expensive? I registered for a three game guarantee tournament in Jacksonville Florida for two teams. My cart included the PG team registration fee of $99.00 per team. A $1600 hotel penalty. A $590 gate fee and the normal registration of $1295 per team for two teams. This brings the total to $4978 to bring two teams to Jacksonville for a three game guarantee tournament. That is $830 per team per game. Our group travels in vans and packs kids into air BnB houses to make it affordable for parents that can't attend because of something called work. Perfect Game not only mandates hotel rooms but the requirement of 34 rooms is absolutely criminal. Any team on a budget that travels with the team and coaches would not need close to that many rooms. They would put four kids in a room and have a coaches room in essence needing five rooms. Perfect Game assumes this is vacation time for the kids and parents and everyone has money to spend and vacation leave time. NLB is in the panhandle of Florida and parents bust their asses to be able to provide their kids the travel ball experience. We do everything in our power to make it affordable for parents and Perfect Game should do the same. Hi Ryan, I assume you are inquiring about the removal of the hotel waiver fees associated with the PG BCS 18U National Championship. Unfortunately, we are not able to remove these fees, as the PG Lodging Policy was agreed to at the time of tournament registration. Since your team is located approximately 300 miles from the event location, the team is required to fulfill the minimum hotel requirement of 34 room nights. Between the two teams, there was only 1 reservation made, totaling 4 room nights. As a result, the required room-night minimum was not met, and the hotel waiver fee remains applicable for both teams. Thank you for your understanding. Tia PG Hotel Operations

High School Players. Recruiting Prerequisite Guidelines. Want to know if you're physical enough? How many of these things can you do? 1. Consistently drive the ball over the outfielder's heads with a wood bat. 2. Bench Press 225 plus. 3. Run a 6 minute mile. 4. Throw the ball 90 plus yards. 5. Run a sub 7 60 yard dash. 6. Average college level velocity on the mound. 7. Run sub 4.5 to 1st. 8. Perform vs good competition. 9. Make routine plays look routine defensively. Players that can do all of those things are getting recruited. If you can't do them. Get to work.