To all those people who say that New York Yankees' pitcher Joba Chamberlain should have known better than to jump on a trampoline with his son: Get real! It's bad enough that Chamberlain's ankle got dislocated while on the trampoline, so for him to get grief for playing with his son is completely unnecessary.
Yes, athletes have a responsibility to be extremely careful with what they do and how that could affect their bodies, but to insinuate that Chamberlain purposely put his life in danger by playing with his son in a trampoline is completely ludicrous. But wait, there's more. Some of these die-hard sports fans are comparing jumping on a trampoline with skydiving and bungee jumping.
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And then there's the Daily News sports writer Bill Madden who in his Saturday column compares Chamberlain's decision to play with his son on a trampoline with the barroom fistfight Brien Taylor–another Yankees golden-arm pitcher–was involved in back in 1993 which dislocated his left shoulder and ended his career.
Really? C'mon! Sounds to me like these people have never jumped on a trampoline!
Nobody's saying that trampoline jumping is THE safest thing in the world, but it isn't the most dangerous either. I've jumped on a trampoline with my kids many times and very few things take me back to my childhood more than laughing hysterically while bouncing as high as possible. Granted, I'm not a baseball player with a multi-million dollar contract. Then again, I seriously doubt that Chamberlain ever imagined that he'd suffer a gruesome open ankle dislocation while hanging out with Karter, his 5-year-old son.
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While it might truly suck for Yankees fans that this could be a career-ending injury for Chamberlain, it sucks even more for him. No need to blame him for being a good dad spending some fun time with his son!
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