Yglesias Article on Travel Sports

Matt Yglesias, a well known political commentator, has a blog post on travel sports that's causing a bit of a stir. I think he correctly identifies the dynamic that there's a collective action problem here. In order to even play varsity these days, in certain sports rec ball isn't good enough and you have to specialize. More people specialize, and everyone else has to keep up with the Joneses (or drop out). His solution, however, just amounts to "resist the siren call" and play rec. Not...

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