Great, thoughtful posts on PAL. Kudos to those who out there who want to have good dialogue. The ONLY benefit to PAL (just playing Devil's Advocate here) is that these are the kids that your sons/daughters may be playing HS ball with - so there should be some bond - -does not need to be airtight, but general knowledge is good. Otherwise - the way we think of it is this - PAL is dessert and Travel is dinner. Gotta eat right before you can have a little fun. And I love seeing my son hooking up against kids on his Travel team - that always is fun.
