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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1839419, member: 837"]
He's got an uphill battle. My older son's not really a sports guy but my younger son has some athleticisim (not from dad, in all likelihood) and it's funny. He played in a few baseball clinics (basically afterschool camps 1x a week) and I had two different baseball academy coaches trying to talk me into getting him in their programs. Then he plays basic rec soccer and people are shocked that I'm not either having him play up a level (at least) or get him onto a more serious select team and basically play year round.

I share that not to brag -- I honestly don't know that he's going to be that much of an athlete when all is said and done -- but to simply point out how quickly youth sports get serious these days.

As an aside, I played sports (relatively poorly) all the way through high school and the most fun I ever had was the relaxed youth sports we played and the pickup games we had. By the time we got to organized sports with coaches and schedules and drills and all that crap, it was still fun to be part of a team and to play the games, but practices were for the most part, a mundane necessity.
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