Norman (Boomer) must be bitter about his own son having some terrible disease. Is he still alive?
I believe his son has cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease. And to the best of my knowledge, he is very much alive, attending college.
But I don't think his son has anything to do with his opinion on this situation. He's a bit out of line for suggesting that Murphy's wife deliver by Caesarian so that the birth would occur before the start of the baseball season. But the prudent thing for Murphy to have done, and which he obviously didn't do, would have been to conceive at such a time so that the birth would have in all probability occurred in the off-season, and he would have avoided this controversy altogether.
Please see my post # 53.