They worried too much about what others thought about. Of course they cared about their son, but they cared about their reputations too and disregarded that other sports would have been better for Foer. He could have played basketball which required a lot of team building, and this would have helped foer break out of his shell and become more social. But it is a shame that Foster parent thought that basketball ‘Had the taint of the ghetto’ (Pg. 351, Paragraph 2). They could have enrolled their son into baseball, a sport that Foers father was clearly fond of, and b enrolling him in this sport Foer could have became closer to his father all while reaping the benefits of a competitive and exciting sport like baseball.
The most surprising part of this whole manipulation of soccer t fit the yuppie parent’s lifestyle was that they had to change the teams every season. He had to do this so that parents wouldnt band together so they could ‘Win at all costs” (Pg. 351, Paragraph 2). The team changes were made to prevent any manipulation of the game winner, this shows a lot about the yuppies and how much status means to them. If the teams were not changed each season, the parents would have likely tried to manipulate the games to make themselves and their children look