Mets' Daniel Murphy

[Molly]

Just have major surgery so your husband can start the season. What a bunch of a-holes!!!

http://www.today.com/moms/radio-host-ri ... 2D79476676

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[heyzeus]

Just have major surgery so your husband can start the season. What a bunch of a-holes!!!

http://www.today.com/moms/radio-host-ri ... 2D79476676

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"This is a good starting point to what is wrong with America," Kelly Lengel wrote. "I'm all for sports, but the man hits a baseball for a living. period. He's not ending war or curing cancer and hell even if he was he deserves to be there when his child is born. Suggesting major surgery for pure convenience of a schedule is flat out ridiculous.

What she said.

[heyzeus]

btw, Daniel Murphy? I don't know anything about him, really. But now I respect him.

"I got a couple of text messages about it, so I'm not going to sit here and lie and say I didn't hear about it," Murphy said about the on-air criticism from WFAN Radio of his decision. "But that's the awesome part about being blessed, about being a parent, is you get that choice. My wife and I discussed it, and we felt the best thing for our family was for me to try to stay for an extra day -- that being Wednesday -- due to the fact that she can't travel for two weeks.

"It's going to be tough for her to get up to New York for a month. I can only speak from my experience -- a father seeing his wife -- she was completely finished. I mean, she was done. She had surgery and she was wiped. Having me there helped a lot, and vice versa, to take some of the load off. ... It felt, for us, like the right decision to make."

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

I would imagine most guys take a week or so to be with their family after this. Of course, most guys aren't paid what Murphy is and almost no guys are in as competitive environment as Murphy. That said, it's 3 games.....no big deal. Esiason is an idiot. 1. Murphy has like 0% chance of losing his job because the mets are horrible. 2. The mets are horrible with no shot of doing anything this year. 3. There are not many doctors that would agree to a C-section in order to shorten a pregnancy for no medical reason. I think it's unethical and dare I say no doctors would agree to do it. What an idiot. This will cost Murphy $0 over the longhaul. Idiot.

[go birds]

whatta pos

[Molly]

I'm not even a mother and this just really ticked me off!!

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

1 thing I'd agree with is times have probably changed. I don't know if this would have been as accepted 50 years ago.

[Molly]

1 thing I'd agree with is times have probably changed. I don't know if this would have been as accepted 50 years ago.

Well, 50 years ago men were men and women were barefoot and pregnant

[go birds]

the good ole days

[heyzeus]

Ah yes, back when men were cold and distant and uninvolved in their children's lives. Those were the days.