Adam LaRoche

[Burrs5]

Told to not bring is 14-year old so to the clubhouse every day, so decides to retire leaving 13 mil on the table.

I have to wonder how it could be every day. Does a 14-year old not go to school?

Anyway, let's discuss...

 

[TheJoker203]

What's there to discuss Burrs.

He is a mushy pussy...aka at the first sign of hearing something he likes, he bails.

 

[YourBuddyRayhad]

"Adam, sit down. Listen, it was cute and all when he was like ten years old, but now that he's 14 he's old enough to realize that all we do on our downtime is get trashed and run around on our wives. So this ends now."

 

[KennyTheKangaroo]

"Adam, sit down. Listen, it was cute and all when he was like ten years old, but now that he's 14 he's old enough to realize that all we do on our downtime is get trashed and run around on our wives. So this ends now."

It works the other way, too. What 14 year old wants to hang around his dad?

 

[nardibynature2]

At least the kid wore a uniform to school everyday

 

[HereComeTheCats]

I'm sure there's a creepy clubhouse attendant who's sad today.

 

[NickleDimer]

It works the other way, too. What 14 year old wants to hang around his dad?

The kind that wants to watch his dad's athletic co-workers walk around in various states of undress.

 

[nardibynature2]

Son, that's what an uncircumcised penis looks like.

 

[NovaHoops2002]

This is pretty shitty that the kid was brought into this. So is he now thinking that he's the reason his dad left baseball?

 

[lowry99]

I do feel bad for the kid but at the same time, ultimately it's his Dad's fault. Agree 100% with Sox management on this -- not sure how word got our publicly as to the reason but that's too bad. If Dad initiated it by telling someone than that's his fault too.

 

[nardibynature2]

Maybe kids will come forward too!

 

[Chimpat]

 

[NovaHoops2002]

I do feel bad for the kid but at the same time, ultimately it's his Dad's fault. Agree 100% with Sox management on this -- not sure how word got our publicly as to the reason but that's too bad. If Dad initiated it by telling someone than that's his fault too.

Sox probably glad to take the PR hit here to get off the hook from paying him $13 million.

 

[YourBuddyRayhad]

According to his Wiki page, LaRoche is a "devout Christian", who helped organize something called "Faith Day" at the Nationals Stadium. Sounds like a fun guy to be around.

 

[The_Z_Man]

The kid had his own locker at spring training.

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/white-sox-player-set-13-200035313.html

 

[jvm3]

Damn, and I thought ADP was playing fast and loose with the school attendance thing!

 

[obriend1]

What would happen if every player wanted to bring in their kids? They'd have a dozen children running around. I get its spring training but main word - training. This is a job. Not some f'ing hobby. I get being a great Father and wanting your child to experience big league spring training but that should be for a day or two. Tops.

 

[ShoesEvenShinier]

I'm sure there's a creepy clubhouse attendant who's sad today.

Jimmy, you ever seen a grown man naked?

 

[Novacatt94]

I get being a great Father and wanting your child to experience big league spring training but that should be for a day or two. Tops.

Good father?

F-ck YOU! GO HOME AND PLAY WITH YOUR KIDS!

 

[YourBuddyRayhad]

The "devout Christian" w his young son in the clubhouse probably acts something like this

 

[HereComeTheCats]

“We’re not big on school. I told my wife, ‘He’s going to learn a lot more useful information in the clubhouse than he will in the classroom, as far as life lessons.' "

What types of life lessons?

 

[owlaboutit]

I thought his son was a special needs child and that's why he wasn't in school and hanging out with dad...if he's just a normal kid, he needs to get his ass back in school, and his dad needs to grow a set.

 

[The_Z_Man]

He's just a normal kid who gets to leave school whenever his dad works out of town.

 

[CWertz]

I hear Andy LaRouche is looking to have his name changed.

 

[NickleDimer]

I thought his son was a special needs child and that's why he wasn't in school and hanging out with dad...if he's just a normal kid, he needs to get his ass back in school, and his dad needs to grow a set.

Because it's 1840 and special needs kids are kept in a locked shed a safe distinance from the "regulars".

 

[HereComeTheCats]

No, you just create a separate free message board for them to congregate. That way, the "regulars" can focus on the usual 14 year old boy stuff.

 

[Burrs5]

No, you just create a separate free message board for them to congregate. That way, the "regulars" can focus on the usual 14 year old boy stuff.

Are you saying the pay board are the "regulars" and BWs is the "special needs" board?

 

[HereComeTheCats]

Are you saying the pay board are the "regulars" and BWs is the "special needs" board?

Yes

 

[Burrs5]

Yes

I thought so.
I agree.
I accept my role in that.

 

[NickleDimer]

I expect separate but equal from a southerner in his 70s, but not you, HCTC.

 

[dirtyd]

Was this just a Spring Training thing or did this silly shit go on all season?

 

[ncaaball2]

That kid may have to go to camps to pray away the gay when he's a little older. That seems like laroche's style

 

[Novacatt94]

Because it's 1840 and special needs kids are kept in a locked shed a safe distinance from the "regulars".

Special needs kids didn't even exist in 1840.

 

[NickleDimer]

Special needs kids didn't even exist in 1840.

You're right. That all started in 1962.

 

[danmcguire]

Was this just a Spring Training thing or did this silly shit go on all season?

All season. I recall an article in the Trib last year about it with LaRoche saying how great the Sox had been about it. Not so much this year I guess.

 

[gldendog]

What are all the details here? I assume LaRoche's kid is only around during the summer when school is out? Chris Sale bashed Ken Williams publically for this and said LaRoche is the most likable guy in all of baseball.

 

[gldendog]

Well here's more...


http://deadspin.com/it-looks-like-a-bunch-of-white-sox-players-had-a-proble-1765924819

Homeschooled. Always around on the road. Yeah I could see how some of the womanizing alcoholics on the roster wouldn't want this kid absorbing their tales from the road and taking them home with the team.

 

[Burrs5]

The team/Williams/players aren't wrong. It was way excessive.

 

[NickleDimer]

this is the dumbest story. I want it to go away.

 

[SameSmallGroup]

The players should have handled this more professionally....by declaring a No Gay Thursday and sodomizing the kid with a broom handle in locker room.