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@Chico Escuela posted:
Yep. Settled for a full-tuition ride to a school in USNews’ top 10 and then an Ivy professional degree. I don’t think my life woils have been better if I had managed to eke out a spot on the HS Varsity baseball bench instead of pursuing something I was better suited for. My son, on the other hand, gravitated to baseball early and was much better at it than his old man. So he pursued his own passions. Nothing wrong with that. But I don’t think my son being a pitcher is inherently superior to other kids who may be dancers or musicians or science prize winners.
I have not uttered an unkind word to you; you, however, certainly cant say the same.
(For the record, I fought forest fires to earn money during college summers. So despite my lack of baseball skills, I was not (though may today be) a completely pencil-necked geek.)

Poor bugger. Just imagine, if you coulda thrown a FB and an off speed pitch you coulda been somebody, instead of a bum...

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