Mr. October Watch Spotting

[White Collar Boy]

Originally Posted by Cloudchaser

I would never would have bothered if I thought there wasn't a chance for civil dialogue! TRF is an incredible community!

You're right about my baseball passion. The game shaped me and gave me an outlet during my own angry years. I have watched my son benefit from the game and have been amazed by the lessons he gleaned from the game and the team environment/structure. Failure, humility, teamwork, so many lessons in the most humbling of the sports!

In a timely development, too, MLB reached a CBA with minor leaguers today; every minor leaguer (not on a 40 man roster) just received a raise of MORE THAN DOUBLE their previous salary. Even a single-A player now makes a livable wage. About damn time! This helps, to some degree, address the problems mentioned earlier.

That’s incredible and long overdue news.

I didn’t play as much baseball as you or some of the other guys but know exactly what you mean about it being the most humbling of sports (though I think golf must be up there too). When we’re at a game together, I try to point out to my kids how nearly every minute someone’s dealing with obvious failure and disappointment, and how going back out is what resilience looks like. (I have to point externally to this last one.)