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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One day that 14 year old - and the other "sports at all cost" 14 year olds will get married - and guess what - I bet nobody will think twice about blowing off their wedding(s). Because there's a great big difference between the all-me-all- the- time people and people that genuinely love and care about their family and friends.  And I know this is true because everybody blew off one of my sisters 3 kids weddings because he grew up to be an entitled pompous ass and so was his wife.  It was a packed house for the other two.  End of story.[/quote]

My guess is that he will have a huge wedding because he spend years fostering relationships with teammates. Long weekends in crappy hotels, trying to stay entertained between tournament games, sharing their Gatorade when their teammate forgot theirs.

He will have a hard time picking the best man since he has so many close friends.

They will all toast their friend who got cancer in high school and talk about the time the whole soccer team raised money for his recovery. They will dedicate a toast to him and his wife and 3 kids. At the wedding will be a coach or two that were mentors to him and helped him get his first job.

He will go onto to coach multiple sports teams and mentor many kids in his future... just for the love of it.

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Lol. I hope this was sarcasm. People don't really think like that, do they? [/quote]

No. It's not a joke. You think these kids don't have tons of relationships they foster every day. This is actually a true story from a wedding I attended 2 years ago, right after the story of how the mom locked the team out in the snow for 2 hours because they got her floors wet for the 10th time.  [/quote]

I tend to agree with this assessment of the future, but I also agree that many of these people are the kind of people that only hang out with other like minded people. They may raise money for the kid with cancer on the team, but not the kid who lives down the street who also has cancer but isn't into sports. They are caring towards their friends who are just like themselves. They mentor other players as adults because they love playing a game, know how to coach, and want their own children to succeed. They are the parents who leave local teams for travel teams as early as possible. [b]They think anything that doesn't involve sports is a waste of time. I admire the dedication of these kids and adults toward their sport, but I'm also struck by how single minded they are.[/b]
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^^THIS!![/quote]

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