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Being a sports fan can be hard. Being a fan of the Memphis Grizzlies is no exception to that.
Joe Mullinax has some warnings for his future child, who he anticipates rooting for the same team as him. Here's part of his piece from Grizzly Bear Blues:
(h/t Grizzly Bear Blues)
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I do have to warn you, though, that some of these lessons will not be all sunshine and rainbows. Along the way, you will learn the hard way about a variety of things. The world has a lot of problems, things that even the smartest adults haven't been able to figure out yet for a lot of reasons. As you get older, you'll see some ugliness that no matter what I cannot shield you from. You'll learn about loving someone other than a family member, and sometimes how that can end up hurting you. It sucks. But you learn from these things and move on, and hopefully you'll be someone who makes the world better.
One of the greatest, and hardest, things that I look forward to passing on to you is my love of sports. A good bit of who I am as a person is made up by my life in athletics, and a part of that is my fandom of a variety of sports teams. I do have to apologize for one thing; if I have my way, you will be a fan of Washington D.C sports teams like the Redskins, the Nationals and the Capitals. Passing that on may be harder than our eventual "Birds and the Bees" talk...
What are the "Birds and the Bees"? Ask your mother in 15 years or so.
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