This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit.

FansAn undercurrent in modern sports is the idea that some of the best athletes are savants in their field of specialty.

There’s even an argument that year ’round travel squads lead to repetitive stress injuries like Little Leaguers who pitch all year until their arms need rebuilding before they turn teenaged.

Or AAU basketball players who travel all year until their ligaments tear and their knees need rebuilding in high school. Is all this worth the dream of hosting an autograph session?

Now this next guess is an enormous leap of assumptions, but we’re seeing race car drivers who are driving as much as they can chasing championships at 13, 14 or 15. When they should be figuring out who’s the man in the mirror, they’re more concerned with the man in the rearview who’s burdening them with a different kind of repetitive stress.

Leave them alone, right? Let ’em chase dreams and paydays. But when YOU were chasing acne, did you even know what your dreams meant? Or, even, what they were?

What if we find out that repetitive stress is emotional as well as physical? Is it better to have more drivers, citizens or just adults.

Peace.