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[Southieinnc]

Interesting comments by a couple of sports guys. Bill Barnwell of ESPN and Milt Schmidt of SI.

Girlfriends sometimes have swayed players from taking jobs away from places that they want to be.

Wives have a lot more influence on where their husbands may be playing. Barnwell says that he knows of several wives that have told their spouses that they can sign anywhere that they want and that they will be happy to take half of it and stay where they are. There are women who do not want to uproot their children and move to a strange city and have their children be the new "strange" kids at school. Worse have to move to a new city and deal with cold weather and twenty straight days of snow. Signing a new contract with a new team is not as simple as it may seem. Money is not always the answer for a wife.

While working in Okinawa I saw an interesting trend.
Young women who wanted to go to Okinawa loved it and did not want to leave.
Young women who were not ready to leave friends and family for their husbands jobs were miserable - and were quick to show it!
Before I married my current wife, I asked her if she would go with me anywhere. She said yes.
I told her, "you could wake up anywhere tomorrow and understand, it might not be better?"
She said yes, she could live with that. I got a job offer for Guam recently but the money was not quite enough.
I could leave her home if she does not want to go to Panama or Cuba.......