Reply to "John Smoltz's HOF speech on specialization"

Originally Posted by CaCO3Girl:

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I choose to think of my kid first and foremost as a KID, secondly as a baseball player. Silly me!

Not really sure what this comment is supposed to mean when it comes to this issue. Are you suggesting that people who worry about overuse injuries in kids are seeing their kids primarily as baseball players rather than as kids. If so, I don't really follow your logic. Actually, it seems to me the other way around. Putting limits on a kid, for the kid's own sake, especially when the kid is brimming with enthusiasm, but lacks mature judgment and experience, is what you do when you see the kid as a kid first and foremost.

8/3/157:34 PM

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