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With Father’s Day coming up on Sunday, I had Rich Hill construct this week’s newsletter intro. Boston’s veteran lefty gives a first-person account about the joy he takes in being a father to his 10-year-old son, Brice. Here is what Rich said about the "awesome responsibility" of fatherhood.

It’s really special and an awesome responsibility to be able to see this person grow up before your eyes. I think it’s something that, again, the responsibility only continues to grow as they grow. Obviously it starts out with just being able to see our son from walking to learning how to talk and putting words together and sentences and now he’s doing public speaking at school.

Right now, I’m so happy to be back with the Red Sox because I can see him play baseball. Three or four times this season, I’ve been able to catch a game before he heads to the ballpark. I feel really fortunate about that.

When I was playing for other teams, I would get videos of him getting a hit. But now, to be able to be there in between at-bats and see how he hustles onto the field and how much he loves playing the game, you can’t catch all that really on a video. To see it live and see the love and the passion he has for baseball is really exciting. And just to see the other side of it too, how well he does in school and just the way he’s growing is just as important.

He loves the game of baseball, but he also loves being a kid too. It’s great to see him playing with his friends and just watching movies with his friends or going to play Wiffle ball out in the park or the number of other games they’re playing out there. It’s been fun to watch him, little by little starting to go off on his own and riding the bike, not too far, but going on little excursions with his friends.

I’ve just tried to teach him to be kind and respectful of others. Treat people the way you want to be treated. My wife does an incredible job of that as well, being able to implement these kind of pillars or book-ends in this concept of life.

Being appreciative of things of the time we have together is very valuable. He knows that because we were just on a 10-game road trip and he was asking, "When are you going to come home?" It’s important just to understand when we do have that time together, how much it means and how valuable it is. He definitely understands that.

Time together is the most valuable thing that we have and we just try to impart that on him. I think that’s the biggest thing we try to impart.

Also, kindness. Treat others the way you want to be treated. Say please and thank you. Hold the door. Just simple things that go a long way and build character as he continues to grow and get older.