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26. he/him. sports fan and rpf hobbyist.

i cycle thru obsessions with the sports below ↓

they are starving the children of boston right now

the thing about elite athletes is that you generally need to be an elite youth athlete to get there. and the thing about being an elite youth athlete is that there are a million of them and very few actually see returns on the insane investment of time and resources it takes to support an elite youth athlete. no one is owed a career in elite sports. frankly elite youth sports fries the minds of most children who come into contact with them, why wouldn’t a parent watching out for their child’s mental wellbeing seriously question if moving their child to boarding school half a world away for the remote chance of a lucrative career in a very expensive dangerous sport is the right move. (and why wouldn’t a mother still feel rage if that decision was taken away from her completely)(this post is about oscar piastri)

we hear stories of the sacrifices that athletes and their families made during their youth career and think oh, well it was all worth it. but we don’t think about the families who made the same sacrifices and it wasn’t worth it. the families drowning in debt for a child who was never going to make it and feels the entire weight of that burden. we don’t think about the people these athletes could have been were they normal people without the career, the money, the recognition. we don’t value the fulfillment of normal, average lives as highly as that of high-profile lives. when in fact the satisfaction i get sharing saltines and peanut butter with my roommate on a saturday afternoon as we watch bad reality TV is a satisfaction more psychologically healthy than what an athlete feels upon winning the championship he’s dreamed of his whole life

derinthescarletpescatarian

My friend is a paediatrician and she once worked in an area where there was a big gymnastics scene and she saw so so many teen girls come in with gymnastics injuries. They were always like "I'm going to be a professional gymnast, that will be my career, I don't need to be wasting all this time with school." And she'd ask about their backup plans if they were feeling chatty and she needed to make conversation (not as a matter of course, she's their doctor not their guidance counsellor, but it would often be the natural flow of conversation with these young athletes suffering athletic injuries where a critical part of the treatment is 'do less gymnastics') then they'd say that if they got too injured to do it, or when they aged out, they'd become gymnastics coaches instead. And she'd be like "okay, mathematically, there are at least five times too many young gymnasts in your position to ALL be professional gymnasts or coaches, and everyone says that; what's your backup plan if you can't do either of those things?" and they'd always be like "no I'm dedicated enough to make it; I can do the sport for as long as my body can handle it and teach the sport when it can't."

And of course they think that, they're fourteen. But a good third of them are completely neglecting their education, most of them are sorely lacking friendships or activities that are outside their sport, and all of them are absolutely destroying their bodies.

realpersonfacts

this is one of the weirdest most passive-aggressive posts i’ve ever seen. i don’t think that many people are getting into sports for the yaoi

realpersonfacts

also even if the majority of people WERE getting into sports for the yaoi. this post legit sounds like the sports version of “omg why can’t men just be friends why do you guys insist on making everything gay 🙄 we need more male friendship representation!”

yoshinobuyamamoto

krushing success!

#whoremembers…#kim hyeseong #dalton rushing

i need yoshinobu yamamoto SO BAD…

#GOD #whatever!

going to a dodgers game for my bday today and guess who’s pitching 😏

#YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO!!!!!!!#gonna do a backflip off the balcony

yoshinobuyamamoto

a pitcher prepares.

#yoshinobu yamamoto #god.

yoshinobuyamamoto

⚾👍👎

#i hauve covid #….#i need him expeditiously.#yoshinobu yamamoto

realpersonfacts

being a male professional athlete is an ontological sin the weight of which can only be balanced by having the sports rpf bloggers do some truly heinous shit to you in the google docs