Fathers & Sons & Sports by Mike Lupica

Author:Mike Lupica
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780345517500
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

Marty never got it. He would never be even the mediocre athlete I was. If he’d stayed with sports, he’d still be the last player chosen at a Hasidic softball game. What I’ve got is a comedy geek. That’s what he’s really into: comedy. Any comedy. Even bad improv. Nowadays he’s consumed with making funny videos and posting them on the web. Great. So he’s funny. What do you do with that? I just don’t see where that’s going to get him. I guess you just have to give up at some point and let children find their own way. As long as he’s not hurting anyone. As long as he’s not the one doing the bad improv.

With my two younger boys I’ve mellowed a bit. I just don’t get as emotionally invested in their athletic endeavors. Naturally, my middle son has turned out to be a really competitive athlete who is a bear to live with. He dissects every baseball game he plays, pitch by pitch. It makes me miss riding home and hearing about what Homer had said to Grandpa Simpson. Nonetheless, it is hard to look at Marty, who is now almost 6′2″, and think that he’ll never excel in competitive sports. He’s got a perfect rower’s body. His mom rowed. I’m sure he could row. If I could just convince him that rowing is funny.

Lew Schneider has been a stand-up comedian, kids game-show host, sitcom regular, television writer/producer, and essayist. He won two Emmy awards for his work on the CBS comedy Everybody Loves Raymond and was a victorious color war general at Camp Naomi in 1981.

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