Atlanta Blue Jays Anthony Dye & Associates Fraudulent sale. Anthony Dye, owner of the Atlanta Blue Jays travel baseball league, sold families of a youth baseball an incomplete baseball tournament schedule. Refunds were NOT issued Atlanta Georgia
Anthony Dye promotes his youth baseball organization (ages 14U through 17U) by a promising competitive schedule at legitimate well known baseball venues. Commitments and schedules are written and handed out to all parents through each team's coach. The fees are typical of most baseball organizations. Anthony particularly and fraudulently sold 15U team's coach specifically. Three tournaments were promised in writing to parents.
Two PBR, one extraneous and one pro style work out. Fees were collected mid September. After the first PBR tournament, Anthony decided to cancel the second of the three tournaments then replace the third one with a lesser known venue in Florida for a weekend tournament. Almost all kids are in high school students based in TN, GA and AL making a spontaneous weekend trip to FL a hardship on both students and their working parents.
Mr. Dye also used profusely harsh profanity at the pro style workout to 13 and 14 year old kids and parents. This wasn't a forgivable one time slip. According to boys, every sentence. Mr. Dye never even showed up after the first day. Whatever bootleg baseball organization he is pushing, buyer beware. Requests for partial refunds have gone unaddressed. Nothing worse than and liar and a thief.
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ANON
Atlanta,Georgia,
United States
Promises, promises
#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, March 17, 2021
I wish all potential players' parents would really do their homework before "investing" any money with the Atlanta Blue Jays or anything that Anthony Dye is involved in. Your comment about "promising a competitive schedule" is something Mr. Dye has been doing since he started the Blue Jays. He has kept one team, but has used many other younger teams in order to do that. He would ALWAYS change the schedule from what was handed out and NEVER refunded any money. He would just disappear and not take any calls. This has happened to several parents over the past several years. He has no known address except a PO box and no one knows his whereabouts or what he does.
The reason you had a spontaneous trip to Florida is probably because he was going to be in Florida with the older team (convenient for him), he had personal business there, or the fees weren't paid for the tournament promised. He did this often when I worked there and sounds like he's still at it. He owes money to many coaches from the past. No coaches have ever stayed past one season with him & all his lies, excuses, and disrespect would run off parents, players AND coaches. There are still several parents trying to get refunds from over 5 years ago.
He (and Steve) will claim all the "players we've gotten to the big leagues," but in reality those players would have been there no matter what. Think about it. He gets players who are already good, from all over, not Atlanta boys like he claims, and then he takes all the credit for making them good. They were good when they got there! Spend your money wisely with a real organization run by good, honest people.
The language he would use in front of the younger boys was unforgivable and him not showing up, or showing up very late, was the norm. Again, it doesn't seem like anything has changed over the years. The Atlanta Blue Jays is a non profit (yeah, right) and is filed with the state of Georgia. Mr. Dye actually took the non profit status of another organization and changed the name since that organization is no longer in existence. Everything from that to his many lies and false promises should be a huge red flag for any parents who are considering throwing any money his way.
Liars and thieves rarely change, especially ones who are really, really good at it.