NEW YORK (AP) At 13 Robinson Cano Jersey , Charlie Fish in Cincinnati has just been given the parental go-ahead to use social media for the first time. He’s also a competitive golfer, avid ”SportsCenter” watcher and well aware of the attention received by offensive tweets posted years ago by some Major League Baseball players, some when they were teenagers themselves.But is he old enough and mature enough to put all of those things together?Some parents have seized on posts by Milwaukee Brewer Josh Hader, Atlanta Brave Sean Newcomb and Washington National Trea Turner as teaching moments about how living life online means your posts may never go away. They’re just not sure whether their young, uber-sharers are listening.Charlie’s dad, Bill Fish, is hopeful that Charlie gets it. He’ll hope the same for his 9-year-old son when he, too, reaches the magical Fish family age of 13 and is allowed on Snapchat, Instagram or whatever the stream du jour will be.”Charlie came to me about the story and how dumb the players were to be racist on Twitter,” said the senior Fish, who once captained the Xavier University baseball team. ”I tried to convey that while only your buddies may see what you put online at this point, you never know when something could come back to bite you.”Fish uses a shorthand with his kids that’s popular among parents, one that seems old fashioned: ”My stance is to never put out anything you wouldn’t want your grandmother to read.” Those words are easy, but as a former head of a company focused on reputation management, Fish knows a thing or two about how old social media posts can rear later in life.”You wouldn’t believe how many parents came to us after colleges dug up things their children posted online while going through the application process,” he said. ”For these baseball players to be raked over the coals for something they said six or seven years ago seems a little unfair, but at the same time a great lesson to talk about what should and what shouldn’t be put on social media.”What grandma may not know Felix Hernandez Jersey , along with youthful social media natives, is at the heart of the baseball controversy, along with why someone would make racist, sexist or anti-gay statements to begin with. Deleted tweets, private messages – just about anything – can be unearthed these days . For kids, the potential dangers of that are endless, from college admissions to rookie job interviews, both rites of passage likely not on the mind yet for 13-year-old Charlie.”Last year, there was a widely reported case of 10 students who had been accepted to Harvard who had those acceptance rescinded because of racist social media posts. The posts were supposedly in a private chat,” said psychologist Shane Owens, who treats adolescents, college students and young adults in Commack, New York. ”Most kids are not able to appreciate the long-term consequences of their actions.”Josef Blumenfeld in Natick, Massachusetts, outside Boston, is a communications expert serving educational technology companies. He’s also the father of two girls, 15 and 17. His oldest is on Twitter and posts a lot about makeup, youth activism and mental health Hisashi Iwakuma Jersey , and the Boston Bruins.”We talk about their social media activity all the time,” he said. ”We often point to something `not smart’ that someone they know did on social media. They roll their eyes, but we keep doing it.”The recent baseball tweets gone viral have not surfaced in their chats, but the subject of old posts resurfacing certainly has.”Even disappearing photos on Instagram are discoverable,” Blumenfeld said.The challenge for parents is to recognize that their kids may not consider social media a form of speech, said Ari Yares, a psychologist, parenting coach and father of four in suburban Washington, D.C.”We keep talking to our kids about how, just like the spoken word, you can’t take back what you say online. It’s always out there,” he said. ”The challenge in having these conversations with kids is that from a developmental perspective they don’t always see the impact that their actions can have.”Another important lesson of the ball player tweets is helping young people understand ”even their idols have done bad things that they regret,” said Dr. Gail Saltz, an associate professor of psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill-Cornell Medical College. ”No one, including them, is immune to the negative consequences of making impulsive choices that did not take into account possible bad outcomes in the future.”But are the regrets sincere, asks Maureen Paschal Ken Griffey Jersey , who has four kids ranging from 14 to 24. She, too, has brought up the baseball tweets with some in her brood.”My kids and I agreed that those players would have seemed more sincere in their apologies if they had cleaned up their social media accounts when they matured enough to see how awful those tweets were,” said Paschal, in Charlotte, North Carolina. ”Cleaning up after they were caught isn’t a very convincing argument for their change of heart.” In the latest sign that the Earth is still spinning, Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers have determined they belong together.Wednesday was the original deadline for Kershaw to exercise the opt-out in his seven-year, $215 million contract. The ace left-hander and the Dodgers agreed to push the deadline to 4 p.m. ET on Friday, and they reached a new deal just in time.According to Tim Brown of Yahoo Sports, it's a three-year, $93 million agreement with incentives and no opt-out:Tim Brown TBrownYahooDodgers-Kershaw agree to three-year, $93-million contract. With bonuses. No opt-outs.Kershaw was already owed $65 million under his existing pact, so this is effectively a one-year, $28 million extension.Could the 30-year-old have done better if he'd entered the open market for the first time in his 11-year career? Almost certainly.Though he does have some red flags hanging over him these days鈥攎ore on those shortly鈥攖his is still Clayton Kershaw we're talking about. He owns three National League Cy Young Awards, an MVP and five ERA titles. Even in a "down" 2018 season, he mustered a 2.73 ERA over 161.1 innings. Altogether, his career 159 ERA+ is the best ever for a pitcher with over 2,000 innings.Perhaps Kershaw wouldn't have been in line for a $200 million payday a la Max Scherzer http://www.marinersfanproshop.com/authentic-ichiro-suzuki-jersey , David Price and Zack Greinke. But he would have been in for something between $100 million and $150 million.However, this is no time to frown on Kershaw's decision.David J. Phillip/Associated PressStrictly from a narrative perspective, if Kershaw opted out and bolted for allegedly greener pastures, it would have felt like LeBron James leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat or Kevin Durant leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors.Defensible, for sure. Arguably the right choice, even. And yet...wrong.Kershaw has been in the Dodgers organization since L.A. drafted him seventh overall in 2006. He's turned into the Sandy Koufax of his era and, through his professionalism and warm personality, a fan favorite in the 12 years since then."Clayton exemplifies what it is to be a Dodger," manager Dave Roberts told reporters.The Dodgers have certainly reaped benefits from Kershaw's excellence. They've gone to the playoffs eight times during his tenure. In these, they've gone as far as the National League Championship Series six times and the World Series twice.The one thing missing, of course, is the big one: the team's first title since 1988.The Dodgers haven't continually fallen short because of Kershaw specifically. But he has been part of the problem. Despite the bright spots in his track record, his career postseason ERA (4.32) is nearly two runs higher than his career regular-season ERA (2.39).According to ESPN StatsInfo, Kershaw has tended to be at his worst when the Dodgers have needed him to be at his best:ESPN Stats amp; Info ESPNStatsInfoClayton Kershaw now has a 6.06 ERA as a starter when facing elimination. That is the worst in MLB history (min. 4 games).But he has some good company. 5seTpyJpflSo it was the last time Kershaw took the mound in Game 5 of the World Series against the Boston Red Sox. He served up four runs on three home runs in seven innings, and the Dodgers lost 5-1.If the southpaw had chosen to leave L.A. this winter, the legacy left behind would have been at once historic and sadly incomplete. He would have been one of the all-time great Dodgers but not quitethe greatest.But now Kershaw has at least three more chances to wrap up unfinished business. And it so happens to be at a time when he and the Dodgers truly need each other.Had Kershaw chosen to test the free-agent waters, the Dodgers would have been left with a rotation of Walker Buehler, Rich Hill and some combination of Alex Wood Kyle Seager Jersey , Julio Urias, Ross Stripling and/or Kenta Maeda. Not bad but far from great.For Kershaw's part,it's no secret that he's not the unstoppable force he used to be. He's lost time to back and shoulder injuries in four of the last five seasons. The last three have been especially rough, as he's averaged 25 starts and 162 innings per year.Kershaw's fastball velocity also seems to have fallen prey to all the wear and tear. It's been on a steady downward trend since 2015. It hit bottom with an average of 90.8 mph in 2018.This had a not-at-all surprising effect on Kershaw's hittability. His strikeout rate went down, and his hard-hit rate went up:If Justin Verlander can do it, then there's a chance Kershaw will get his health in order and eventually welcome back his vintage velocity.But since that's not terribly likely, it's a good thing the Dodgers can offer all the advantages he needs. Dodger Stadium is a notorious pitcher's park. The team will be returning many pieces from Major League Baseball's tied-for-sixth-most efficient defense. And even if Yasmani Grandal (who's been made a qualifying offer) doesn't return, Austin Barnes is an outstanding pitch-framer in his own right.Perhaps the biggest question Kershaw had to ask himself is whether the Dodgers' championship window has already closed. But while there is an argument there, his return is just another reason to believe it remains open.The team's rotation looks that much better with him in it. Kenley Jansen still anchors a strong bullpen. Manny Machado is leaving behind an offense that caught fire in the second half of 2018, but a healthy Corey Seager will step into his shoes next year. And now that their luxury-tax penalties are reset, additional help from outside the organization should be on the way.Regardless of the price, there was never really anywhere else for Kershaw to go this winter. In theory, he and the Dodgers were always bound to each other.Now that it's official, they know what to do next. 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