How Youth Sports Became a $38 Billion Play | Power Players
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Fuh awai x kalut 😂😂😂
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Youth sport not being funded well in europe is hurting the sports here. It is all about making it but in the u.s you really figure youth sport can cash too
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The cult of sports has no bounds. I'm all for kids playing and competing, but something looks very dubious when you're profiting off kids' efforts. They'll be easy to exploit especially kids from low incomes, from coaches to parents alike.
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peak america. squeezing the last bit of juice out of capitalism
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Parents think their kid is the next MJ or Cal Ripken or Tom Brady that’s why they spend so much
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Won't the professionalization of youth sports exclude more kids from sport?
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I had a once a life time moment (it was about 30-40 seconds) and shook the hand of legend Cal Ripken Jr. at Disney World last year. I was absolutely star struck, and he was completely gracious to take a selfie with me! It was an honor and privilege to meet him in person! I remember looking up to him as a kid seeing his baseball posters throughout gym class in school growing up and even to this day he is an absolute positive roll model that I continue to admire! Thank you Cal for being an inspiration to me to this day and beyond! -Mike
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Baseball is dying
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Reason why you guys will never compete with european football and basketball to an extend. Top players are all from overseas. Money money money.
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The only non pay-for-play sport today is Football – at least where I am in the south. It is truly heartbreaking that this is what youth sports has devolved into.
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this is why baseball is dead
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TLDR: because the bourgeoisie need somewhere to throw their money. i MeaN mAYbE mY KiD WilL PlaY iN tHE MLB wuuhhhh
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It's disgusting what has happened.
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Ripken is a legend. He's not ashamed to be bald. He's the Michael Jordan of white guys.
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That’s the reason you’re seeing less us born blacks in the mlb
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And Cuban , Venezuelan , and Dominican kids will beat Americans to the Majors . The same ones who played stick ball on streets and vacant lots.
And the majority of American kids who make it will come from rural communities. Not the burbs or exhurbs.
These suburbanite parents are getting fleeced by these so called youth sports enterprises. All those nicer facilities, and equipment availability , and ushers to come up with talent that seldom ever materializes.
The Latinos say, it takes ganas. It means , it is a all or nothing proposition. Spoiled middle class kids from the burbs don’t have it.
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Strange report. Make no mistake, youth sports is a full-on business. It is tricky to think we all have emotional attachment to sports, and huge emotional investment (personally and socially) in children. We all know how this ends up. In business, profit is number one- not children.
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Sport is one thing that connect all of us ❤
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Why not just skip playing on teams with crazy fees and invest the money into a 529 plan, etc? If the scholarship statistics are true, you have better odds of making money in the markets. You can likely have darn near a full ride if you start early enough.
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Essentially, they really dont care about the kids. If they have the numbers to prove an overwhelming majority will not make it to college but the price keels going up.
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The sixers owner said it will keep kids "off the street". No family spending $12k per kid is in roaming the streets. Its a huge hustle that preys on kids and parents.
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How do you define an economic bubble without calling it a bubble? Overall, demand is decreasing but price is increasing.
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