There’s a good story in the Washington Post today about Ian Desmond’s wife Chelsey and their two young children and the challenges faced by wives and family members of baseball players.
It’ll likely inspire some mixed feelings in you. The Desmonds are, after all, rich, and however logistically difficult it is to keep a family together during a major league baseball season, they don’t have it tough like military families (as Ian Desmond notes) or people who have to struggle to put food on the table, often moving great distances or being away from their families for extended periods do.
But that’s not the point here. The Desmonds aren’t complaining about their lot. The story is more about relaying what it is ballplayers and their families go through to get as much quality family time they can during the season and to show how much of the burden of all of that falls on the wives given the players’ commitments. While this may not inspire sympathy or anything from you, it is an interesting look at a part of the game that we don’t often see.
