My Son

[Gina]

Originally Posted by Janet

My son loves basketball. He's not the greatest player, but could have been much better had the "popular" boys on the team not given him a hard time.

Anyway....he has volunteered to be the team manager. He has done this before and liked it. I wish he had more of my spunk and played like he would really like to and not let the other boys get to him. I don't understand why he would want to manage a team with boys who...well he doesn't really care for and who treated him so badly.

I didn't question him...I try to get him to get more involved at school, he has to make choices, but this one really gets me. He'll have to go to all the practices and all the games. I don't know if I'm asking for advice or what here. It's just one of those things that has me puzzled.

Janet sports are very how should I say policital. My son always had the love of baseball. Since he was 2 he was always with bat and ball in hand. He played little league from 5 on and went on to play high school being MVP and then on to College baseball. Up to second year of college something happened and it turned my son off completely to the game. He was always put on the bench , mind you he is a great ballplayer and has so many trophies and stats to prove it. He won a partial scholarship last year to go to Utica College, but he declined it. He lost the love for the sport , he said to me its not how good you are but who you know. It broke my heart for this boy lived, dreamt and did everything for baseball.

As far as your son, it hurts when others are rude or don't treat him fairly or equally, your son seems like a great kid and overlooks how they treated him. I would support him and just mention that if things get rough he could always walk away. I think he wants to prove that he still loves the sport and is not letting past experience get in his way. He is truly a wonderful boy...