What I thought I knew about softball and men

Last night I came home from a Booster Club meeting, turned on the computer and saw the familiar sight of the SoftballFans.com website tab along with the other standards, Twitter and Facebook. The thing that caught my eye however was that the word "divorce" was also on the SoftballFans.com tab...which means that my husband was reading a thread that had something to do with softball and divorce. I was curious so I read the thread which had some surprisingly interesting and thoughtful responses to a guy asking about what he should do about his "nagging" wife that was threatning divorce because of the amount of time spent playing and umping softball. Two things struck me as odd about this thread. One, that a guy was actually thinking about the possibility of divorce because of softball, and two, that men actually talk about this kind of stuff. I've been told by my own husband on numerous occasions that guys don't talk about this kind of stuff when they hang out, that they talk about bats and tournaments and what kind of beer they are drinking, but rarely does the subject of wives, marriage, kids, or anything remotley domesticated come up. As I mentioned, some of the responses to the players initial post were well thought out and in favor of "the wife" (which, by the way I can not STAND to be called, I DO have a name). There were also some not so nice and somewhat ignorant responses which is to be expected when reading a thread on a male dominated website about softball. I'm not going to lie, I desperatley wanted to respond to this guy with a female prospective of the situation, but decided against it mostly because I didn't want to post under my hubby's name with a sappy response and I also didn't want to sign up under my own name because, well, I just don't care that much. I'm impressed at the guys willingness to take the BS from the rest of the website members, however all of this probably could have been avoided if he'd have just talked to his wife. Good to know that regardless of what men say about womens nights out, and all the fun they poke of our chattyness, there are those select few men and select moments when real life is discussed and advice is shared. Way to go guys...even if it is on a softball forum.