Adam LaRoche and 14 year-old son Drake. LaRoche was a better than average player, not quite a superstar.
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{The front office} was concerned that allowing children to the clubhouse every day could become ‘something that can get out of hand’, NBC Chicago reported.
‘We didn’t realize the level at which is was taking place, whether it be on buses and planes and in the clubhouse and on the field in different places, that really kind of crystallized some things for us,’ Williams told the television station.
He added that LaRoche’s son is ‘loved by everyone around here’, but declined to say whether or not any of the players had complained about the boy’s presence in the clubhouse.
‘Unfortunately this turned into a thing and it didn’t have to be a thing but now we need to address it,’ Williams told NBC Chicago.
LaRoche explained in 2013 to the Washington Post what it meant to have his son with him all the time.
‘It’s like having your son and your best friend alongside you all day long, at work, which never gets to happen,’ LaRoche said.
‘I don’t know many jobs where you can bring your kid and not have to put him in daycare somewhere. It’s been awesome.’
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Yes, and baseball isn’t one of them.
It didn’t “give” it to you. You TOOK from it.
Finally, when someone has the nads to tell you to stop bringing in the kid, you quit.
LaRoche = Unprofessional
Two questions come immediately to mind –
1) Why does he mention Day Care with a 14 year old?
2) Why is his son not in school?
Children don’t belong at work. End of story.
I bet the kid ends up as an ingrate at some point in the future. BAZANG!!
Who wants to have a teenager around at all, work or at home? As a parents we’re forced to have them around us! Lol
Get the kid a seat near the dugout if it’s so important for him to be there-the clubhouse is for the players. Period.
So what’s he do when his boss, yaknow the guy signing the check, tells him to stop? I wonder if he was a pain in the team’s ass?
Yeah
Wow. It must be nice to be able to give up your millionaire job over something so trivial.
Probably instigated by some nosey nitwit with a personal hang up about kids.
For what it’s worth, LaRoche has long suffered from attention deficiency disorder. Perhaps having his son nearby served some kind of therapeutic purpose. I’m not defending the guy, but he has been a pretty good ball player for a long time. He was fun to watch when he played for Atlanta a few years ago.
The kid should be watching movies like this.
https://www.facebook.com/GMoneyFanpage/videos/1555241288137769/
What an idiot, loving his son more than a game for grown ups! Geez, get a life loser!
The roar of the crowd is way more important than the laughter of your child!
If it had been his daughter, it would have been totally grrl power cool.
What a great guy, making it uncomfortable for everyone around him when he insists on bringing his precious snowflake to the ballpark each and every day.
To be so self-unaware that management has to force him into doing what was plainly obvious he shouldn’t be doing is disturbing. Or was it that he was purposely being an asshole by bringing the kid in while everyone else with kids obeyed the rules?
My dad worked in sports when I was a kid (horse racing) and as a kid I felt uncomfortable when occasionally he took me to work.
I liked it, but at the same time realized I shouldn’t be there.
I could see some of the looks I got from the professionals. I self-limited my access even as a kid.
LaRoche AND SON – dense.
I went to work for 8 hours a day of sanity away from my kids
i don’t give a crap whether he quit over it or not, that’s his choice.
it doesn’t affect me.
glad his kid was not in public schools being indoctrinated with all the leftist crap. if you love your kid home school them.
if the guy really cares about taking his kid to work, maybe he should start his own business that would facilitate that decision instead of making his employer do that. if you take a mans money you do what the man tells you.
our politicians sure abide by that rule how come employees no longer have to?
Reminds me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2A194yTWoQ
My kid currently has to do some sort of work study thing for high school. Problem is, I don’t work. My wife does, selling drugs which isn’t conducive to have a pizza faced kid standing around.
So we’re trying to hook him up with some of our friends, that too is difficult because nobody has a job where a kid can just stand around all day.
lessee ….. 13 year career, with a lifetime .260 average (yawn) who has made at least $53 million dollars in the last 7 years playing a game
buh bye… you insufferable boor
SH!T…”bore”…..
What’s wrong with “boor?”
I took my kid to work once, and he asked: “They pay you to drink whiskey and sleep?”
I explained that I was a FedGov’t worker … but he didn’t really understand … so I didn’t take him anymore.
Yea you can’t bring your kid to work everyday when your name isn’t on the sign out front. Start your own business and then you can give your kid a corner office if you want. Imagine if everyone in the white sox organization brought their kids to work. Total chaos.
I went to work with my father once on a saturday at the jobsite.
I drank so much coffee I turned green and vomited.
all his coworkers had a laugh.
I still like coffee to this day, just not so much of it.
Come on, lighten up on the guy. At least he knew where his kid was at and what he was doing. Maybe the kid got tutored, and I bet the kid is respectful to adults around him. At least his pants aren’t hanging down around his ass, and he looks like a respectable white kid. Maybe dad made his money, invested it wisely, and it was time for him to go. He used his kid as an excuse to leave, and opened up a spot for someone new to come in.
my wife is currently trying for a position that should open up doors for future prospects for our daughter. we already got her a no show tv news room gig and a seat on the board of directiors at a charity, but we feel her interests are more in the public service field, sec of state or gov or maybe even potus some day. that is if the wife can ever break that glass ceiling over her head and become the first female potus pussy.
hillary 2016
for prison
@Tim ~ ‘boor’ is grammatically incorrect. ‘boor’ would be pronounced like ‘moose’ or ‘loose’ (not lose… lol), or as the illegals say ‘poosy’
‘bore’ is pronounced correctly due to the silent ‘e’ (a vowel) on the end.
…& that’s today’s lesson from Mr. Grammar Nazi … 😉
Was the kid being a problem in the dugout? Talking shit to the guys, playing bad practical jokes, being mean-spirited to team members, or trashing equipment? This is still spring training, was dad going to bring him during the regular season? Maybe the 14 yo is a better pitcher than the team’s starter, and jealousy ensued?
It’s just baseball, for cryin’ out loud. Nobody died.
See ya.
Oh…wait…no, we won’t.
Whatever…jerk.
Sheesh, Tim, drinking early?
I explained that I was a FedGov’t worker …
FeralGovt EMPLOYEE
FIFY
boor
[bo͝or]
NOUN
an unrefined, ill-mannered person:
“at last the big obnoxious boor had been dealt a stunning blow for his uncouth and belligerent manner”
synonyms: lout · oaf · ruffian · thug · yahoo · barbarian · [more]
seems appropriate to me …
and McDrinker for Five,
We ALWAYS maintain the pretense that we WORK for a living … doing America’s necessities!
The CWS are destined to get their ass kicked this year. The players had to be talked out of boycotting yesterday’s game in support of this guy. MLB is not the Boy Scouts, it’s a multi-billion dollar business and little kids, as precious as they are, should not be distracting the participants in the game. Unless of course they don’t care if they win or lose. If I was a fan that wanted to see a winner I’d start looking for another team.