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To: Rambi who wrote (81859)	9/3/2008 7:38:47 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543043

I am tired of seeing the serious injuries in the popular sports- I can't tell you how many kids each year I see in casts and splints, and who end up having surgery. When you combine that with the definite party aspect of our high profile sports- I can't be very bullish on them.

To: Rambi who wrote (81859)	9/3/2008 8:47:05 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Respond to of 543043

Rambi, I read your post and smiled. In the cost/benefit journey through life there are some who will pitch at 53 and worry about how their shoulder will feel at 70, but not until they're 70. My three kids were all involved in sports and I think my wife and I enjoyed that as much as anything in our lives. In retrospect, however, I wonder if the year-round sports took away from the down time that we had as kids. I remember getting bored and just thinking but today I don't see kids doing that as much because of all the distractions of TV, cell phones, video games and sports. At least our kids didn't have tv, cell phones and video. We moved miles out and our kids filled what little down time they had picking berries, swimming, shooting baskets, playing board games and reading. But mostly they went to sporting events and practices. We had one year where we had one in boy's varsity BB, one in girl's varsity BB, and one in boy's JV BB, and a lot of driving and choices to make. And that basketball season followed a seeming endless series of baseball, soccer, some football, and volleyball seasons. But still they weren't sated. They invented indoor baseball and indoor volleyball games with intricate, homemade rules, using whiffleballs, bats, nerf balls and our living room. Eventually their friends who came to visit knew the rules and they'd slide into pillows and get rug burns too. Is there anything more joyous and more sad than having kids? Ed