Family planning and the bullpen

[djoctagone]

robin yount's wife was due during the 1982 magic. if i recall correctly, she was at the games with an ambulance waiting there in the event she went into labor.

 

there's a funny story about 1982 and my misunderstandings about the facts of life (at age 8). i didn't fully understand the gestation period and thought that robin yount was required to fertilize right before she gave birth (pm me if you want my actual words . . . while lacking slang, they're not necessarily appropriate for this public forum . . . but they're pretty funny).

 

in a nutshell, i was worried that robin yount would have to leave the game to impregnate his wife.

[patrickgpe]

i agree, while not every birth is planned, conceiving in February or March to have a baby in November or December, would make the most sense. There would be possible interference with baseball games and you would have the maximum amount of time with your newborn before spring training started in February.

[marquettefan13]

Just because you want to conceive a child at a certain time doesnt mean its going to happen. There are people that can try every month and nothing happens or there are people like me and my wife(blowing on fingers and rubbing on my chest) it happened the first month we tried.

 

I was going to say this also - it's not like everyone can simply get pregnant when they want to.

 

This reminded me of starting pitcher Tom Browning of the Reds in the 1990 World Series. He left Game 2 early to be with his wife while she was in labor and the game went into extra innings. The Reds had radio announcer Marty Brennaman go on the air and ask Browning to come back to the ballpark in case they would need another pitcher. Browning was watching on TV and never heard Brennaman's plea and the Reds won in Extra Innings and they never got to the point where they needed Browning anyway.

[SoCalBrewfan]

You know, it's a baseball game...in the scheme of things it's just not that important. (Never mind the several thousand messages I've written here about baseball games.) Beside the fact that you will want to be there, and that fathers now typically serve as 'coaches' and supporting cast in the actual birthing room, you have to remember that there may be complications with the pregnancy and birth, and split-second medical decisions, with very serious consequences, that need to be made. I would have serious reservations about the character of someone who had the opportunity and means to be there but decided to miss the event in order to play baseball a thousand miles away.

 

I suspect that this is one of the reasons that Mitch Stetter is on the roster.

[uecker9]

This could be the greatest thread of all time. Hilarious stuff.

[dlk9s]

You know, it's a baseball game...in the scheme of things it's just not that important. (Never mind the several thousand messages I've written here about baseball games.) Beside the fact that you will want to be there, and that fathers now typically serve as 'coaches' and supporting cast in the actual birthing room, you have to remember that there may be complications with the pregnancy and birth, and split-second medical decisions, with very serious consequences, that need to be made. I would have serious reservations about the character of someone who had the opportunity and means to be there but decided to miss the event in order to play baseball a thousand miles away.

 

I suspect that this is one of the reasons that Mitch Stetter is on the roster.

Mitch Stetter is an obstetrician?

 

[SoCalBrewfan]

That almost makes up for your darn little avatar bug, which is directly responsible for a large fingerprint on my monitor... http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[logan82]

On that note I was wondering how Russ is handling the impending birth of his first child. I seem to remember he mentioned something about a due date around the playoffs and how he could make it to the games.

 

Due Date: Oct 7th

Date of home playoff games in first round: Oct 6th & 7th

 

Talk about irresponsible!

 

Terrible lapse in judgement. You have let all of us at Brewerfan down.http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/laugh.gif Hope you found a hospital in Milwaukee. If Mitch Stetter is an obstetrician, maybe a seat next to the bulpen would be ok.