American Legion Baseball !!!

I come to the umpire deal in a interested way . I played HS, Legion and college baseball sometime ago . For the most part baseball paid my way through college . I found that getting into umpiring was a good 2nd income . To date , I have umpired over 750 HS games , 900 American legion baseball games in 5 different states, over 1,200 college baseball games and 30+ minor league games as a fill-in umpire . I would be guessing here and may be wrong , but would say I have the most on field experience of any umpire in all of Area III or IV. So with that being said This is my BEEF !!! and what I feel is good about what is happening in NC legion . 1st thing I see is that these HS and show case AAU and USSSA teams being started in the State is KILLING Legion baseball and I hate it .
To all parents or kids who read this blog read this fact and those who read this past it on to anyone thinking about sending there kid to play on these teams . In college baseball a player MUST league to play for a goal : UNDER PRESSURE . The goals to have good stats is not really one of them . To win and conference regular season , conference tournament and get selected to play in a Regional . Those are goals in NCAA./NAIA baseball . U can't learn this things by playing SHOW CASE games . U can't by playing everynight in Legion baseball . I played every night back in the mid 80's @ Mocksville and never ask for a night off a week off to go to the Beach to party . These kids and parents these days are soft !! not all but most. I made a committment to play and back then it meant something .