Baseball is a Metaphor for Parenting
Baseball is a great metaphor for parenting and commitment. Fans revere the players who demonstrated the commitment and grit and focus to try hard and excel over not just weeks or months or even a couple of years, but decades. We love them for their daily contributions of caring and pleasure-given to us, the fans, over the course of many many years that is a great analogy for parenting.
When a player gets inducted into the Hall of Fame, and we thrill listening to a recitation of his career numbers and achievements, most of us could substitute acknowledgments of our parents' sacrifices to us ... "she stayed up 145 nights with a sick child during her parenting career" ... "he missed 498 hours of work to watch/coach every game his son played in a 10 year schoolboy career" ... "they sacrificed their lake house dream and a trip to Europe to put their daughter through college and graduate school" ... "he waited up 112 nights till his teenage daughter was home safely for the night" ... "she worked 800 hours of overtime so that her son could have a car to take to college" ...
The greatest players - the ones who 'care the most about the game' - are the ones who understand that they have a moral responsibility to do their best because of us in the stands, and the payoff is our eternal admiration and appreciation ... just like the eternal bond between parents and children.
When a player gets inducted into the Hall of Fame, and we thrill listening to a recitation of his career numbers and achievements, most of us could substitute acknowledgments of our parents' sacrifices to us ... "she stayed up 145 nights with a sick child during her parenting career" ... "he missed 498 hours of work to watch/coach every game his son played in a 10 year schoolboy career" ... "they sacrificed their lake house dream and a trip to Europe to put their daughter through college and graduate school" ... "he waited up 112 nights till his teenage daughter was home safely for the night" ... "she worked 800 hours of overtime so that her son could have a car to take to college" ...
The greatest players - the ones who 'care the most about the game' - are the ones who understand that they have a moral responsibility to do their best because of us in the stands, and the payoff is our eternal admiration and appreciation ... just like the eternal bond between parents and children.
posted by Lawrence 3X at 5:01 PM
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