# Would you choose Music or a Sport for your child?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 10, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-choose-music-or-a-sport-for-your-child/403538 "2007-05-10T13:51:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-choose-music-or-a-sport-for-your-child/403538/41 "2007-05-11T12:36:42Z")

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[QUOTE=What Exit?]  
😃 Red Sox would be tough, Mets would be fine.

Jim  
[/QUOTE]

Can you imagine? Game 7, ALCS, bottom of the ninth, Yankees up 3-2, bases loaded, two outs…

Now batting for the Boston Red Sox, the third baseman, #23, What Exit Junior!

You’d have to just become a Royals fan, to save your own sanity.

Heh.

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The question is an odd one. Both pursuits are tremendously valuable, and I see no particular reason why they should be placed as opposites as they are here.

But if I had to choose, I’d choose music, on the grounds that he or she would still be able to play the cello long after his or her ability to hit a fastball erodes with age.

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