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genny, baseball and family


the father basically broke the entire family unit so she can succeed in the MLB...

cheating on your husband is never the way to go, but to have your kid shut you out like this maybe hard... for a parent, specially if u don't know why

i wonder why she didn't tell her mom the real reason she shut her out since she was little... did she just understand what baseball did to her family and to her parent's marriage, i hope we see her again...

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My whole issue with this is that she had her chance unless they are saving it for another story. The past few episodes even the pilot I wondered if her dad pushed her too hard to borderline abuse but I think that part of her is doing the baseball thing in spite of her mom. My question is when she was a little girl and hadnt seen her mom with a new guy would it have kept her from playing baseball?

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" I think that part of her is doing the baseball thing in spite of her mom. "
i disagree with "in spite", her mom never made her chose, she said so to Genny and Genny didn't refute that, from all the flashbacks, what i understood is that she just wanted Genny to have a balanced life.

so the answer to your question is no, her not seeing her mom transgression wouldn't have kept her for playing baseball, he would have just prevented her from shutting her mom out of her life...

now that she is mature enough to know that yes mommy cheated, but her parents marriage died a long time ago because of baseball, i still think she should have told her mom what really triggered the shut out, it would have given her mom opportunity to make amends...

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