Three days before a game one of the players becomes a daddy. He no shows for the game.

The average pay for an MLB player is $3.2 million dollars.

I think he should have made it to the game. They get more than 4 months off per year. We have people in the military not being able to get home to see their families for months at a time.

Now, I would not have gone as far as one commentator did by saying the if the guy wanted the time off then his wife should have gotten a C-section a couple weeks earlier.

"You can hire a nurse to take care of the baby if your wife needs help…Are you gonna sit there and look at your wife in the hospital bed for two days?"

player takes leave

This is my sentiment, I don't feel sorry for him at all. He has the rest of his life to be with his child and attend PTA meetings at the private school. Opening Day is gone and he will never get that back.

Does opening day games replace helping your wife in the days immediately following your child's birth?
Does the amount of money one makes replace seeing ....
 

Your Baby Week One
 
Week One Developmental Milestones

By Vincent Iannelli, M.D. Updated December 12, 2007
Developmental milestones in the first week of life? Most parents don't expect that their newborn baby is going to be able to do much besides eat, sleep, and cry. While it will be some time before you watch your baby's first steps and hear her first words, there are some important developmental milestones to look for, even at this age.




In your baby's first week, you can usually expect her to:
•Have a spontaneous or almost reflexive smile, which can occur as early as your baby's first few days of life and should be present by the time she is 10 weeks old. This is different than the social smile that occurs in response to something, like when you talk or sing to your baby. Babies develop the social smile a little later, when they are one to two months old.


•Have equal movements of her arms and legs on both sides of her body. For example, she shouldn't move one arm or one leg much more than the other, which could be a sign of injury or weakness.

•Lift her head briefly when she is on her tummy, although remember that newborn babies have poor head control and need their head supported at all times.


•Focus briefly on objects that are near her face and up to about 12 to 15 inches away, which is about the distance of a ...feeding baby looking at her mother's (op add: or Father's) face. She can also see simple, high contrast patterns and her vision will quickly mature over the next few months.

from
pediatrics.about.com/od/yourbabyweekbyweek/ss/baby_wk_one_5.htm

Food for thought?
~mara

I don't post often and am on a mobile phone. Please forgive any errors.

There are many reasons why someone may not be able to take time off for the birth of their child, but if you can, you do. That's a no-brainer.

Quote from: crossbro

Three days before a game one of the players becomes a daddy. He no shows for the game.

I think this player (and new dad) had his head screwed on right. What's a baseball game (and I enjoy baseball) compared to the birth of a child? Have you considered how much happier his wife (and new mom) would be because he was there? I like his priorities.

Me too.

I don't think people who have been not blessed by the graces of matrimony or it's fruits (children) can always understand the importance of birth.

But men using the FMLA to take off WEEKS irks me to the Nth degree (barring special circuмstances).  This is more of the blurring of the sexes, and effeminization & fαɢɢօtization of modern men.

If you're strictly talking about a wealthy person, I'd agree with you. But, if a husband can't afford or doesn't have anyone else to help his wife in at least the first 2 weeks (possibly more for a c-sec), he should be home with her. Ideally, they'd have someone else to help so that he could return to work, but if not, he shouldn't be looked down on for taking care of his wife and newborn. If he isn't wealthy, I'm sure he'll be back to work just as soon as he can -- usually sooner than the couple would like.

My question: Would they have let him play on opening day without having been at practice that day, or the day before, or the day before that?

I was present for the birth of every one of my children.  I owned the company, so there was no one who could tell me I could not be.  I made sure that the male employees who worked for me could be present for the birth of their children.  

The suggestion that work, especially work so irrelevant and pointless as professional sports, should get in the way of this is simply stupid.  Are you married, Corssbro?  Any children yet?  If not, please don't lecture those of us who are about taking care of our families.  And if so, literally for God's sake get your priorities straight.