Topic for a cold pre-season day. If a player is not feeling well, should he play anyway? I don't mean injured, I mean sick, like cold, fever, stomach.
Years ago, before I found hsbbw, the situation was this. It was my son's first year on the varsity. He didn't play in the first two games, but the third game he knew he was going to start in the infield. That morning he woke up with the first day of a horrible cold. You know the feeling, your head is all woozy, you're dizzy, your nose is running. No fever, though. It was cold and windy. Since he wasn't actually too sick to go to school, he played. Made several errors - totally uncharacteristic for him. Then sat the bench for the next few weeks.
We were really second-guessing. Should he have played? In fact, he hurt his team by playing badly - maybe he should have said he was sick?
It turned out fine in the long run, he was starting again by mid-season. But in a situation where you might get just a few chances to prove yourself, what's the best decision? Or is is just bad luck when that happens?
