Hardball heartache: a guide for parents

Boston Globe ^ | 10/18/2003 | PATRICIA WEN

[RJCogburn]

A distraught 10-year-old Red Sox fan should not be told that people are starving in Third World countries (dismissive). Or that it matters only that Red Sox players tried their very best (condescending).

Or that the Red Sox are bound to win the World Series someday (possibly untrue).

[RJCogburn]

Posted, by a dedicated Sox fan, because it is sooooo ridiculous.

[gunnedah]

PC is the Rule of the day/Live in a dream world where there is no reality/Excuses/Excuses/No too reality/
Where the hell is America headed?

[hellinahandcart]

A distraught 10-year-old Red Sox fan should not be told that people are starving in Third World countries (dismissive). Or that it matters only that Red Sox players tried their very best (condescending). Or that the Red Sox are bound to win the World Series someday (possibly untrue).

Instead, he should be told "Get used to it".

>:D

[moonhawk]

Boo freakin' Hoo...

How 'bout blame it on the Bambino. Or perhaps the idiot manager who left Martinez in to stroke his ace's ego...

Or maybe they were just beaten by a better team.

Life goes on, get over it.

[Batrachian]

Maybe Bostonians can console themselves by going out to a showing of "No, No, Nanette".

[lavrenti]

My daughter's first heartbreak was when Wells went to Toronto for Clemens.

I took her to see Clemens first couple of starts at the Stadium, told her stories of watching him pitch in hs and college in Texas.

She got over it.

Though I am worried her favorite ballplayers are fat, crazy guys.

[Semper Paratus]

"The Red Sox killed my father and grandfather"
"Now they're coming after me"

[G.Mason]

Pathetic, mentally moronic, personality types.

These are those among us that cannot deal with life.

That's okay, give them an award for losing. There, all better now?

[LizardQueen]

We've really turned into a soft mushy-headed "Oprah Nation", a nation of psychologically traumatized perpetual juveniles and those who feed that view point.

What about telling kids to "suck it up and deal with it"? That seemed to have worked for me and my family, growing up.

LQ

[Publius6961]

"The intensity of their feelings is very real," said Stuart Goldman, a psychiatrist at Children's Hospital in Boston and father of three.

This is truly amusing.
Playing a game and worshipping it are two entirely different things.

My boys managed to survive to well-functioning adulthood without seeing baseball as an essential part of life.
And daughter just smiled at the brainless cheerleader bimbettes.

Both activities can disappear from the universe tomorrow with no discernable effect on the world, other than a possible rise in average IQ.

[metesky]

Grief councilors are standing by...

I think the best thing to do is to stop scoring the games. No winners, no losers.

(/sarcasm)

[G.Mason]

"The Red Sox killed my father and grandfather" "Now they're coming after me"

I'd get you a B B gun, but you may shoot your eye out.

[Gorzaloon]

My boys managed to survive to well-functioning adulthood without seeing baseball as an essential part of life. And daughter just smiled at the brainless cheerleader bimbettes.

That was me growing up, and I still dislike sports mania. Funny thing is, while I would PLAY games, watching others just never turned me on at all.

So I maintained the legacy at work the day after the Red Sox' latest failure. The drive in was very pleasant for a change because no-one seemed to want to go to work.

When I arrived, I was nearly lynched when someone mentioned "The game" and I piped up, "Don't tell me! Let me guess! The Celtics scored the Extra Point against the Bruins?"

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

Not every child will need solace

Give me a break! Solace? If I needed Solace or a f##king therapist everytime the sox broke my heart I would be sitting in a padded cell drooling by now.

My advice to the greiving child go outside and play!!

[G.Mason]

" .......... And daughter just smiled at the brainless cheerleader bimbettes."

Bimbette : NOUN: Offensive Slang, A woman considered as sexually provocative and mentally vacuous.

An excellent discriptive!

[Beaker]

When I arrived, I was nearly lynched when someone mentioned "The game" and I piped up, "Don't tell me! Let me guess! The Celtics scored the Extra Point against the Bruins?"

Wait.. you mean that they didn't?! ;-)

[RJCogburn]

Maybe Bostonians can console themselves by going out to a showing of "No, No, Nanette".

Funny you should mention that. From another Globe column....

If you live near Durham, N.H., there's a nifty production running through tomorrow at the Johnson Theatre in the Paul Creative Arts Center at UNH. Perhaps you've heard of the play. It's a little musical from the 1920s entitled "No, No, Nanette!"

[StatesEnemy]

Any young bosox fans should be instructed in the fine art of YANKEE HATING.

Sad to Mad.

[Publius6961]

LOL!
I joined the NFL pool at the office just to irritate the jocks.

I fill in my weekly picks by flipping a coin, and am doing better than 60% of them.

Drives them nuts!

[Mears]

"Go outside and play"

I was a child all during WWII and that's the advise we were given if we dared express any fears.

This Globe article gave us all a good laugh at breakfast this morning. What the heck are these kids going to do when they have real troubles?