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AP baseball has a majors division which is more geared towards the travel kids. They don’t practice as much and don’t play as many games knowing that those kids are playing almost every weekend and practicing a couple times a week, plus usually taking private lessons.

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I'm aware.

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At the end of the majors season, they select an All-Star team from the majors league. They play a few tournaments in-state to qualify for the LLWS, then work their way through the LLWS bracket.

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Mostly correct. After the all-star team is selected, they play in a district tournament (with Eastbank and other teams from their district) and must finish 1st or 2nd in their district tournament to advance to the state tournament. If they advance to the state tournament, they must win the state tournament to advance to the regional tournament in Waco (the tournament they just played in). If they win the regional tournament, then they move on to the LLWS in Williamsport.

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So yes, they are travel ball kids, but they’re also playing for a LL AP team, making a LL AP allstar team, then playing with that team to make the LLWS.

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Correct. AP has done a great job with their AP Select organization keeping these kids together for the most part.

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the ones with teams competing for the LLWS do.

for a while LL said you could not compete in other leagues so no travel kids, then they relented.

then it became you have to play 11 & 12u year

now its you have to play in a minimum amount of games

some leagues still ban only playing at 12 and making all stars but "most".....na

and how are they going to enforce it?

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By making a kid that just plays 12U year ineligible to make the all-star roster.

If you go look at the all-star roster for AP, Eastbank, and Lafayette for 9s, 10s, and 11s, almost every player on there is going to be a travel ball kid. Those kids are playing both travel and LL.

AP 11s for example....at least 8 of those kids played on a AAA/Majors travel ball team in 2026.

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It sucks for the kids here, but at this point and with how they have gone about fighting it, I think LL has to rescind their charter once all is said and done.

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What's to stop a judge from stopping that as well? We've jumped the shark.

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Why would high level travel ball kids want to play rec ball?

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Most of them don't, but they ones that do want to do it because it gives them a chance to play with their buddies from school or from their neighborhood.

20/20. And multiple times for all except for maybe Sulphur.

Delucas is the popular pizza place downtown. If you are trying to go for dinner or on a weekend, make reservations. Grateful Head Pizza is also very good and easier to get into.

Rent a boat and cruise around the lake. It's incredible some of the houses on that lake.

Plenty of good hiking around that area. Also some pretty cool ziplining courses if the kids are old enough.

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Your opinion is made up because you hate him because he's a gay dude with kids.

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I don't have an opinion. I'm not even the poster you responded to. I'm just pointing out the rich irony of you claiming someone else made shite up, then you go and make shite up.

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Avatar is the most bizarre thing ever. The first film was the highest grossing film of all time. As soon as it was gone, no one cared. It had no cultural impact, it was not in the zeitgeist. No one thought about it

Then the 2nd one comes out and its the same thing. huge money, no one cares

Its just...strange

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Just my opinion, but I think a large part has to do with the fact that it's difficult to connect with any of the characters on a personal level. I saw the first one a year or two after it came out and have since watched the sequels with my kids. I couldn't name a single character and neither could my kids. It's an average story with fantastic visuals, but you really don't feel any connection to the characters. The plot is not interesting enough to make a lasting impact on adult viewers and the characters are not relatable enough to make a lasting impact on younger viewers.

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My diagnosis...you make crazy shite up out of thin air.

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Then you go and..........make crazy shite up out of thin air.

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This man, though bizarre in life, loved his kids and they loved him.

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How do you know this?

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How in the hell would you glean that he wanted his kids taken away out of what he did on livestream.

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You think someone that would do something like this and broadcast it to the internet has their kids' best interest in mind?

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This feels light years better than selling out to PE

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This IS selling out to PE. The fact that the private money comes from current program donors doesn't change that. The Tiger Rag article is putting lipstick on the pig.

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The bottom line is that if the contract is written solely how OM reported it to be, then there is a breach of contract. So in layman's terms yeah it's a defacto penalty, but having a penalty for breach of contract is not unusual so I'm not sure what else needs to be debated.

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The argument will not center on whether there has been a breach of contract. We know the contracts have buyout provisions and we know the players have not made payments under those buyout provisions and are, therefore, in breach. The question is whether the buyout provisions are enforceable. As already mentioned, many states disfavor non-compete clauses in employment contracts and will severely restrict them temporally and geographically. Admittedly, I'm not sure what the state of the law is in Mississippi is on non-competes, but I also know that the NCAA has gone to great lengths to find that players are NOT employees, so there may be even more reason for the courts to limit these buyout provisions, particularly when the player received absolutely zero compensation under the agreement.

With that said, this will be tried in a Mississippi court room in front of Ole Miss law grads, so LSU fans should not hold their breath.