The off-field lives of Big 4 athletes

How are these time windows important to a Big 4 US (NFL,NBA,NHL,MLB) athlete, as a person:

NFL:Mother’s Day-Thanksgiving
MLB:Valentine’s Day-Independence Day
NHL/NBA:Columbus Day-Valentine’s Day

Clue: Think back to Jr High Science

Disclaimer: Yes I was bored/am weird

PS-When the answer is given, I’m curious about this for not US athletes.

Since we’ve had 265 views with no bites, here’s the answer:

These are the windows player have to conceive kids without worrying about missing games.

You like it rough, I take it.

Very nice Lamar, well played.

I predict we’re gonna see a LOT of NHL players having kids throughout the next season.

I thought all those leagues were played by males.

Most men want to be in the room when their children are born.

^ That’s a recent thing. For most of history, men pretty much left the screaming, oogy childbirth thing strictly to the women.

Most want to be in the room when it’s conceived.

Even those who want to, do not need to.

Even those who want to, do not need to.

Wow, y’all. Identical down to the punctuation!

glares suspiciously at TriPolar

I think that was the point of TriPolar’s post. (Well that and to elicit a chuckle, which he succeeded at in my case.)

Either that or Nava and TriPolar are carrying on a trans-continental affair and one accidentally left the SDMB signed in on a laptop and posted and then realized it wasn’t their username and posted again.

That’s what I heard, anyway.

Except they responded to two different posts.

Tripolar’s was an “I saw what you did there” moment.