You have to be born on third to achieve anything these days 

“It’s getting too expensive for some kids to even play, and the pressure to be perfect takes away the love for the game,” Dončić told me.

You have to be born on third to achieve anything these days 

“It’s getting too expensive for some kids to even play, and the pressure to be perfect takes away the love for the game,” Dončić told me.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/30/heir-ball-how-the-cost-of-youth-sports-is-changing-the-nba

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Baseball might be the worst of them all. High schools around Texas apparently don’t even really consider kids that didn’t play select or travel ball which costs thousands of dollars every season not even including equipment

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I wonder if there’s any meaningful way to change this

Probably not eh

I guess you could do scholarships but feels like a band aid

10 years old now but still relevant. I do think basketball is probably the most accessible of the lucrative sports.

Yep I remember reading this when it came out. Still very relevant

10 years old now but still relevant. I do think basketball is probably the most accessible of the lucrative sports. 

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I think the genie is probably too far out of the bottle. This is all revenue generating and it creates jobs for semi pros and former college athletes. And they do actually make kids better. But the amount of money involved means there’s probably no going back