Blake breaks down early sports specialization and why playing one sport year round leads to more injuries and burnout. He also covers the rise of Tommy John surgery in teenagers and how private equity companies are buying up rinks and charging parents to stream their kids’ games. He looks at what the system costs families, from Steve Nash’s take on how youth sports turned into a business to Alex Rodriguez wondering whether he’d have made it if he were a kid today. As a parent himself, he closes with his advice for sports parents, starting with building the athlete first and the specialist later.