“How can you not be romantic about baseball?” I really enjoyed this episode and listening to Aaron’s perspective on the love of the game. What an inspiration. It delighted me to hear about how important baseball is to Beth and her family, as it is to so many of us. My dad drug my little sister and I to nearly every double header at Tiger’s stadium growing up, Opening Day is my family’s favorite holiday, and I even had a Detroit Tigers themed wedding 😂 thank you for celebrating Opening Day by covering a sport that means so much to so many. I do share Beth’s reservations about the ABS system, fingers crossed the sport will preserve the tradition and romance we all love. Thank you again and Go Tigers!
Dang, missed an opportunity to have a two-parter this week considering Jason Kander still plays baseball and it’s his favorite sport.
Interesting conversation nonetheless. Would’ve liked to have heard him expand on his thoughts about younger and younger ages getting Tommy John’s surgery.
As the mom of a former youth pitcher this was hard to listen to. I always worried about him getting hurt and he did have a shortened season due to bicep tendinitis. When your guest was talking about the day to grind and showing up ready to play that is hard for a 15 year old too. He had a whole arm care routine he needed to do and ugh was it tough. I was so glad when he decided to not continue past freshman year. The velocity demands for a 15 yo always made me squimy.
I hear that, and I know that Sarah brings a strong perspective on the cost of sports on athletes, and… it sounds like Aaron still really loves the game and wants to be a part of it.
And like, when you decide what the surgery is, it sounds gross and the recovery is hard, but… it gave him extra good years in the sport.
I guess I've just seen a lot of people in my life extend their athletic (amateur!!!) careers through ACL, hip replacement and knee replacement surgeries and I guess what I have come around to is that not a failure for your body to get injured. I dislocated my ankle last year (not doing anything cool or impressive) and the recovery sucked and has taken a whole year and it still hurts, BUT with physical therapy, good pain management, rebuilding my strength from the bottom up and middle out, I feel like I could be in the shape of my life after this because I've learned how to be in my own skin.
Anyway, I hope you're son keeps playing something. We are creatures that are designed for play and movement. I'm not saying we all need travel ball, but we do all need to play something.
Hmm I am not sure where this response came from, Maggie. I didn’t say anything against this guy, just my own perspective as a parent watching their kid over 10 years of playing. His coaches were former MLB pitchers. I love baseball. I loved watching my son pitch. He was good. It is hard on a 15 year olds body. The only thing they wanted was more speed. I have broken limbs. I have gone through recovery. I certainly didn’t want my 16 yo have his elbow put back together because coaches used him too hard. And like Aaron said that is becoming more and more common at the high school level. Good pitchers are a dime a dozen at the high school level. Not all of them are going to college for baseball. But all the parents think they are. I hope he plays again as an adult. Because he also loved it. Until he didn’t. Now he loves jazz. Hope that is ok it isn’t a sport. lol
You did find my trigger word with “quitting” and “15.” 70% of kids quit sports by age 15 and most never come back (hence of epidemic of poor fitness). It kills me that (I’m not saying this is you, just that you stumbled into my soap box) parents and coaches get so focused on winning the next game that they lose sight of the long-term term wins of fun, community, good health, time outside, resilience, healthy outlet and more that players should be able to look forward to in the long term with a slightly less frenetic and competitive attitude. I hate the thought of a kid your sons age being burned out on sports already. It's not his fault (and jazz is also great for the soul) but I hate that we (people who organize and care about young athletes) do this to them.
LOL, my response to "quitting school sports at 15" was: YES!! Now we get him for the school play and maybe even drama club!
It is so hard to get the athletes into the school plays, even when they already know they want to participate, because it's always sports season. They can be so great in musicals because they already know and are comfortable in their bodies. And they understand teamwork. Student athletes are an asset anywhere they want to put their energy, and they will get all kinds of mental and physical health benefits by participating in making art (even if we performing artists do spend most of our time inside big black rooms; to us, that spotlight is a grow light 🪴).
I love that Jen's son is trying out different ways to engage in his high school community. Maybe the high school musical needs a jazz band? You're welcome in the green room anytime, Jen's son!
🤣🤣 yes, this was me. I quit sports at 15 for the drama club (and overdid that and got burned out on that, too, which makes me think perhaps it's a ‘me’ problem 🤷♀️)
I haven’t watched baseball in years, think Braves of the 90s and early 00s. Trying to think of other technological advancements that have become part of the game not just on the fan side. I remember when the strike zone box was added to the TV production. And just my opinion but the whole travel ball issue is why we see so many serious injuries in younger players. Their bodies are not ready for that stress at 12 or even 15 years old.
“How can you not be romantic about baseball?” I really enjoyed this episode and listening to Aaron’s perspective on the love of the game. What an inspiration. It delighted me to hear about how important baseball is to Beth and her family, as it is to so many of us. My dad drug my little sister and I to nearly every double header at Tiger’s stadium growing up, Opening Day is my family’s favorite holiday, and I even had a Detroit Tigers themed wedding 😂 thank you for celebrating Opening Day by covering a sport that means so much to so many. I do share Beth’s reservations about the ABS system, fingers crossed the sport will preserve the tradition and romance we all love. Thank you again and Go Tigers!
Dang, missed an opportunity to have a two-parter this week considering Jason Kander still plays baseball and it’s his favorite sport.
Interesting conversation nonetheless. Would’ve liked to have heard him expand on his thoughts about younger and younger ages getting Tommy John’s surgery.
As the mom of a former youth pitcher this was hard to listen to. I always worried about him getting hurt and he did have a shortened season due to bicep tendinitis. When your guest was talking about the day to grind and showing up ready to play that is hard for a 15 year old too. He had a whole arm care routine he needed to do and ugh was it tough. I was so glad when he decided to not continue past freshman year. The velocity demands for a 15 yo always made me squimy.
I hear that, and I know that Sarah brings a strong perspective on the cost of sports on athletes, and… it sounds like Aaron still really loves the game and wants to be a part of it.
And like, when you decide what the surgery is, it sounds gross and the recovery is hard, but… it gave him extra good years in the sport.
I guess I've just seen a lot of people in my life extend their athletic (amateur!!!) careers through ACL, hip replacement and knee replacement surgeries and I guess what I have come around to is that not a failure for your body to get injured. I dislocated my ankle last year (not doing anything cool or impressive) and the recovery sucked and has taken a whole year and it still hurts, BUT with physical therapy, good pain management, rebuilding my strength from the bottom up and middle out, I feel like I could be in the shape of my life after this because I've learned how to be in my own skin.
Anyway, I hope you're son keeps playing something. We are creatures that are designed for play and movement. I'm not saying we all need travel ball, but we do all need to play something.
Hmm I am not sure where this response came from, Maggie. I didn’t say anything against this guy, just my own perspective as a parent watching their kid over 10 years of playing. His coaches were former MLB pitchers. I love baseball. I loved watching my son pitch. He was good. It is hard on a 15 year olds body. The only thing they wanted was more speed. I have broken limbs. I have gone through recovery. I certainly didn’t want my 16 yo have his elbow put back together because coaches used him too hard. And like Aaron said that is becoming more and more common at the high school level. Good pitchers are a dime a dozen at the high school level. Not all of them are going to college for baseball. But all the parents think they are. I hope he plays again as an adult. Because he also loved it. Until he didn’t. Now he loves jazz. Hope that is ok it isn’t a sport. lol
You did find my trigger word with “quitting” and “15.” 70% of kids quit sports by age 15 and most never come back (hence of epidemic of poor fitness). It kills me that (I’m not saying this is you, just that you stumbled into my soap box) parents and coaches get so focused on winning the next game that they lose sight of the long-term term wins of fun, community, good health, time outside, resilience, healthy outlet and more that players should be able to look forward to in the long term with a slightly less frenetic and competitive attitude. I hate the thought of a kid your sons age being burned out on sports already. It's not his fault (and jazz is also great for the soul) but I hate that we (people who organize and care about young athletes) do this to them.
LOL, my response to "quitting school sports at 15" was: YES!! Now we get him for the school play and maybe even drama club!
It is so hard to get the athletes into the school plays, even when they already know they want to participate, because it's always sports season. They can be so great in musicals because they already know and are comfortable in their bodies. And they understand teamwork. Student athletes are an asset anywhere they want to put their energy, and they will get all kinds of mental and physical health benefits by participating in making art (even if we performing artists do spend most of our time inside big black rooms; to us, that spotlight is a grow light 🪴).
I love that Jen's son is trying out different ways to engage in his high school community. Maybe the high school musical needs a jazz band? You're welcome in the green room anytime, Jen's son!
🤣🤣 yes, this was me. I quit sports at 15 for the drama club (and overdid that and got burned out on that, too, which makes me think perhaps it's a ‘me’ problem 🤷♀️)
I haven’t watched baseball in years, think Braves of the 90s and early 00s. Trying to think of other technological advancements that have become part of the game not just on the fan side. I remember when the strike zone box was added to the TV production. And just my opinion but the whole travel ball issue is why we see so many serious injuries in younger players. Their bodies are not ready for that stress at 12 or even 15 years old.
Love Pantsuit Politics. Love baseball. Perfect spring break episode!