BOTH!
Baseball - Tuesday nights in the late winter wrapped up in a blanket (thats when they lace 'em up here in Texas)...Coffee and Hot Chocolate have never tasted so good!
Football - Friday night under the lights...need I say more?
Edge: Football
Baseball - Looking into the dugout and seeing the pitcher with an ice pack after a solid outting
Football - Looking to the sidelines and seeing a player with an ice pack on his knee, indicating his night is over, and perhaps the season or career
Edge: Baseball
Baseball - In the spring, watching football players dress up to heckle the opposing pitchers and support his own baseball team
Football - In the fall, watching baseball players paint faces and yell and cheer, sometimes from the stands, sometimes from the field, supporting their football team
Edge: High School Sports!
My nephew plays both baseball and football for his HS, and truly loves both. He has had a great deal of pressure to quit football and focus on baseball, because that is where his "future" is. He had a great deal of stress last year as a Junior and his grades and on field productivity suffered. He received baseball offers from a couple schools, and declined them.
After school let out, he had a conversation with his parents and priest, and decided that his 'future' could wait, and that as a HS student, he could live for 'today'. After this conversation, he was at peace and was not playing and pressing because some coach from this place or that one was watching today. Furthermore, he could also enjoy his final football season without worry of injury, because in the end, he was doing what he loved and if 'His' plan was for his to continue one or the other (is a pretty good football player too) in college, then it would happen.
He is happy, healthy, getting A's in school and is Aces in my heart!
In the end, the time parents (or uncles) have with these kids is short and whatever is 'right', enjoy it.
