Persuasive Essay About Playing Time

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Many people think that playing travel baseball is a piece of cake. That is if you can handle everything it throws at you. But there are still many things that people do not see that is needed to do, while playing travel ball
Weekly schedule. Practice is mostly every, for my team they are every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and sometimes even Friday or Tuesday. They last from anywhere ton a hour an a half, to three and a half hours. And it's not like you can just miss, you have to have a really good excuse, like being sick, or a family emergency, or else you will get limited playing time. When you show up to practice you have to be completely ready to go, if your late you have to run. You have to go to practice to earn your spot, if the coaches see your doing bad, and someone else in your spot is doing better the you are, chances are, he will take your spot, even if you are a starter.
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Friends, very fun to have, but not needed. Time for hanging out with your friends is on the weekends, which is very hard considering there is almost always a tournament or practice on the weekend. Even when you don't have practice during the week you have to be careful about hanging out, because if you go out late friday night, you will be tired on saturday. One thing I do is make the most of them at school, as well as hang out with them on my free time. Friends are not vital like grades, but you definitely want some to have.
Teammates. While not being able to hang with your friends a lot, you get to see your teammates almost everyday. Ultimately your teammates are your ¨brothers¨ and your team your ¨family¨ getting along is vital to playing baseball. You have to communicate with your teammates and have a trust that if you give 100% someone will be there to back you up. Teammates become a lot closer when you go to far places and get hotels, play around and we'll, have fun. On our tournament in arizona, not only did we win but we all had fun and became

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