Now I am all for adoption, don't get me wrong here, but dude... Ernie, you're 77. I can't keep up with my kids and I am like, uh, a lot younger than you.
Cubs Hall of Famer Ernie Banks, 77, and wife Liz, 52, adopted a baby girl last Saturday, two days after she was born under the direction of a midwife in Los Angeles.Are they too old to be parents? Liz Banks doesn't think so.Duh.
"As long as you have the love and the energy to do it, why not?" she said.Because the kid's dad will be dead or decrepit before the kid hits puberty, maybe?
"I'm certainly up for it. And nobody believes that Ernie is a pair of sevens. He has just as much energy and enthusiasm for life as he did when he first started his Cub career. He's just a great ambassador of life. And the joy he can give to a young child is just going to be wonderful."And out comes the old saw about how he/she acts sooo much younger than his/her age and that age is ain't nuthin' but a number, blah, blah, blah, in order to justify doing something that may or may not have been a good decision...
"We have prepared a home of peace, love and joy for her to be raised and loved in. And we certainly will have a village of relatives to help raise her."Of that I have no doubt. Best of luck...