I don't think I like #1 either. All the kids in town play baseball and against other towns and they keep score.
Might be a regional thing, but when I read the word "competitive" in #1, I assumed it meant the sorts of leagues where you have to try out and pay lots of fees to participate, they have paid coaches and travel hours to play tournaments with the other "competitive" leagues. That's what we call them around here, anyway. And I think they're insane too. If we were talking about the kind of baseball where kids play on neighborhood teams on the weekends and keep score and one of the teams wins, etc. that's just Little League, which I whole-heartedly support.
But I don't really see much other way to interpret her comment about gifted kids. Other than to say, she clearly hasn't met my son. Because then she'd know how you know.
