Another head-scratcher

From a Dallas Observer blog posting.

"In Game 2, Colby Lewis is scheduled to start after missing his last regular turn in the rotation because -- I'm not making this up -- his wife, Jenny, was giving birth in California. To the couple's second child."

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/sportatorium/2011/04/welcome_back_to_earth_texas_ra.php

 

"Departures? Totally get it because at a funeral you're saying goodbye to someone for the last time. But an arrival is merely saying hello to someone you'll see the rest of your life."

Oof. I can't imagine something that wouldn't have kept me from being with my wife when she gave birth. Then again, it wasn't something as mundane as our second child, just our first.

 

What a fantastically asshole observation from this guy.

 

Anybody who misses the birth of a child by choice, is a complete douchebag.

 

Maybe in the old days there wasn't enough "interest" in why a player wasn't in a lineup or whatnot - but you do seem to hear about more players (mostly basketball and baseball) taking personal days to attend funerals, visit a sick relative etc. than you used to. I always figured players should plan their families around the season, or induce the kid so it didn't interfere with what was REALLY important (to me) - whether they played or not.

Or maybe it's just the Family Leave Act

 

Used to be they'd just say the guy was out with the stomach flu.

Or maybe that's what they said when a guy was hungover. Can't remember.

 

Cmon, this isn't just anybody. This a pitcher with a truly mediocre career missing an April start. There are only like 161 other games or around 30 more starts he can make. Clearly he can't afford to miss that for a kid, especially a second one. Second kid's births are the most overrated sort. Priorities man. #sarcasm

 

Is it possible the post is sarcasm? Really just a dig on Shane Battier for skipping his child's birth to play the other day (hence the link at the end)?

 

If it's sarcasm, it's poorly written sarcasm. If you're going to make a joke like that, you have to go a lot further than this writer did or else your readers may never forgive you for it.

 

I think he's pointing to Battier as a good example.

 

This is just some guy's rag on a blog for some rag.