Listen to the radio
When I was a kid, I would climb into bed with a small, battery operated radio. It was always tuned in to the Great Voice of the Great Voice of the Great Lakes, WJR 760, the flagship station of the Detroit Tigers. I would lie in bed imagining the Tigers beating the Jays and Yanks and Red Sox.
When baseball season gave way to hockey season, Sid Abel would replace Ernie Harwell as my chaperone to dreamland, and I would listen to the Wings play the Leafs and Blues and Hawks.
Games were televised, but they were few and far between, and besides, they usually fell out on a Sunday afternoon.
My eight year old loves sports. Nights like tonight kill him, because he wants to stay up late and watch the Pistons. It playoff time, and while I would let him stay up and watch the finals, he doesn't get to stay up late to watch the Eastern Conference Finals.
Here's the funny thing. It has never occured to him to ask if he could listen to the game on the radio. With almost every local game in every sport on TV, the only time he thinks of radio is in the car.
If he asked to listen to the game in bed, he would get an instant yes.
Instead, we are going to send him to bed right before the 8 PM tip off. He is going to putz around in our room, trying to watch a few minutes. My wife is going to turn off the T. He will go to bed. I will go downstairs to turn it on there. Around 10:30 or 11, he will come down stairs, say he can't sleep, and sit on the couch to watch the end of the game. We will tell him to go to bed, he will make up an excuse to stay up, and being the strict parents that we are, he will watch the end of the game without any snacks.
Why don't we tell him he can just listen in bed? What, and ruin all that fun.
When baseball season gave way to hockey season, Sid Abel would replace Ernie Harwell as my chaperone to dreamland, and I would listen to the Wings play the Leafs and Blues and Hawks.
Games were televised, but they were few and far between, and besides, they usually fell out on a Sunday afternoon.
My eight year old loves sports. Nights like tonight kill him, because he wants to stay up late and watch the Pistons. It playoff time, and while I would let him stay up and watch the finals, he doesn't get to stay up late to watch the Eastern Conference Finals.
Here's the funny thing. It has never occured to him to ask if he could listen to the game on the radio. With almost every local game in every sport on TV, the only time he thinks of radio is in the car.
If he asked to listen to the game in bed, he would get an instant yes.
Instead, we are going to send him to bed right before the 8 PM tip off. He is going to putz around in our room, trying to watch a few minutes. My wife is going to turn off the T. He will go to bed. I will go downstairs to turn it on there. Around 10:30 or 11, he will come down stairs, say he can't sleep, and sit on the couch to watch the end of the game. We will tell him to go to bed, he will make up an excuse to stay up, and being the strict parents that we are, he will watch the end of the game without any snacks.
Why don't we tell him he can just listen in bed? What, and ruin all that fun.
posted by Air Time at 3:42 PM
14 Comments:
I remember when I had to sneak i transister radio under my pillow and fall asleep listening to the tigers..
Yeah, I used to do the same thing, especially during the playoffs. I'd watch the game, then head off to bed to listen to late-night sports shows, either on 760 or 1270. I'd fall asleep to them arguing on how the Red Wings or Pistons played. The Tigers never made it that far. I really miss those days. Thanks for the reminisce.
-OC
when I was a kid I was glued tot he radio at night, I always listened to sports talk at night. BTW think Shaq will play?
I don't think it matters if Shaq plays or not. The Heat remind me of last year's Lakers. Two stars and a cast of ten to fill out the roster.
I fully expect Shaq to play. This is the Eastern Conference championship. Shaq is no Scottie Pippin.
I'm not ignoring the code, it's just that all the sports talk is over my head. I guess this would be the equivalent of me only blogging about politics or something like that.:)
Sounds so familiar-- my nearly-10-year-old is so into baseball and hockey (but thank G-d there was no hockey life this past winter). He pulls the same shtick your son does or lingers lingers lingers, running back with more excuses to see the score if the baseball game isn't over. Smart mother, though, suggested the radio to him last week at bedtime. He listened for a while but unfortunately for him, it didn't offer the same effect. So he gets up very fast and early the next morning to watch the highlights of the game on TV .
really frum beth yehuda people -- and surely darchei torah people -- would probably not be interested in sports, and certainly, if they are dt people, not have a tv.
problem solved if you are really orthodox.
Recently, my wife wanted to enforce a hard 8pm bedtime for my 6 and 4 year old.
I turned to her very simply and said "Can't do it! Baseball Season"
And so tonight, after we returned from the batting cages, my 6 year old and 4 year old, over the objections of my wife, sat next to me on the couch, until about 9:45 PM when our beloved Birds, squeezed the last out of the game, securing yet another victory, and then they went to bed.
Why take a chance of them growing up only to find out that their favorite sport, if any, is soccer, because they had to be in bed by the 4th inning.
9:45pm to 7:45am is still 10 solid hours.
Tommorow night, I hope to take them to the game, and then carry them in from the car at about 11pm, since we will probably stay after the game for an hour to get autographs.
Air, I can remember many an discussion with you about whether or not it was hos before bros or bros before hos. Now its Pastime before Bedtime, or Bedtime before Pastime.
Oh, how we have changed.
Last night turned into a different variation of the event. We were in the car on the way home from Piano lesson during the pregame, so my 8-y--o asked if he could listen to the game.
At bed time, I asked the boys if they wanted music, which they listen to at bed time every night, or the game. My five year old insisted on music, because that is the only way for him to fall asleep. I tried to find another radio for my oldest, but could not. So he went to bed crying.
I went up at around ten to invite him down to watch the end of the game, but he was sleeping. Oh well.
Pearl- We had to put an end to morning highlights because we have trouble getting the boys out to school on time if the TV goes on.
Anonymous, I disagree with your theory. Most of my cousins are YG people, and all of them are interested in sports. Just b/c you go to a school that doesn't allow TV's or radios, doesn't mean something doesn't interest b/c it's seen and heard on TV. My cousins used to sneak out of Yeshiva all the time and come over to our house to catch a Tigers game. Another cousing of mine that used to go to South Bend kept getting in trouble b/c he was caught with a radio. The only reason he had was so he could listen to the Tigers, Pistons, and Redwings games. Not allowed to have a TV or radio doesn't stop a person from being interested in sports. It just means they have to go to sneaky ways to enjoy their passion. Problem very much NOT solved.
-OC
OC knows what she's talking about.
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