They are probably a couple of ex-baseball coaches who lost their athletes to the sport . . . down here in Florida that trend is in full flight.
A couple of years ago CNBC had Mike Piazza on to ring the bell on the NYSE floor for Opening Day. The interviewer asked him about the problem of getting kids to watch baseball (he lives in Miami) and his answer was ‘where I live all the kids are playing lacrosse’.
I personally dislike lacrosse but my high school senior son loves it.
The fact that an A-hole senior blind sided my son when he was a sophomore and destroyed my son’s knee might have something to do with it.
Son was long stick middie standing in front of goal when the opponent ran around from back of net and then log rolled him. Ball was on opposite end of field.
Blew his ACL, ripped MCL, punched a hole in meniscus when the two leg boned pinched it. Out of commission for a year. Ruined football and hockey seasons. Ruined chance at a military academy appointment.
But he still practices every day, hoping they will still have a season this year.