And what’s craziest to me is how many people seem so mad at the White Sox for this. I’d do anything or give up anything for him.
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Here’s the deal: I completely understand why LaRoche wants to have his son around. Drake would clean cleats, he would help out in drills, pick up baseballs when we needed, he didnt say boo to anybody and was never a trouble in the clubhouse..
“Not that I know of”, Navarro said.
But I do it for my son.
“The way that they banded together to try to protect this young man, and their teammate and everything, I told them, it’s admirable”, Williams said. And that’s a line Adam LaRoche has crossed, and the media is doing him, and the rest of parents, no favors in the way they are framing this story.
For almost every working adult in this country, thats the way it is, outside of those who own their own businesses or perhaps work in a day care.
In the current stretch of spring, where every muscle tweak and three-inning performance is headline worthy, the Chicago White Sox’s infighting has dominated the baseball news cycle.
Anybody whose made it as far as high school sports knows at some point there is going to be a testosterone-fueled cursefest in a sports team’s private sanctuary.
Sale, who has since hung a jersey for both Adam and Drake LaRoche in his locker, went on to say that the wrong guy walked out of the locker room.
After that story came out, my editor asked me if bringing children to work is a common practice in other kinds of businesses.
He said the advice he left his teammates applies also to his fans: “In life, we’re all faced with hard decisions and will have a choice to make”.
“[Drake is] very welcome just as all our players kids are and always have been, really”, Williams told NBC Chicago’s Peggy Kusinski Wednesday. Not only did he suggest he has an agreement in place with the White Sox about having his son around, LaRoche said Williams requested a “significant reduction” before he banned the 14-year-old altogether. Nobody saw anything as a distraction until all this happened. But he signed a contract to play and he ought to honor it. He was such an integral piece of this clubhouse and such a mentor to most of us in here.
When I was here one day last week, Drake LaRoche was plopped down at the middle of a table in the clubhouse after the morning workout, in full uniform, shoveling forkfuls of salad into his mouth. “How many kids do you have traveling with you and all the things that can come about?”
“There has been no policy change with regards to allowance of kids in the clubhouse, on the field, the back fields during spring training”. If you’ve got an under-achieving, over-priced veteran player, just hassle his family and he’ll quit out of principle, saving the club millions. Otherwise they could have stopped the whole labor movement cold! So he has to make sure everything is running smoothly. So he can act like a spoiled prima donna and go home.
LaRoche’s statement disputes one made by Williams earlier in the week. The salaries are ridiculous, and the players too often act accordingly in their quest for what they deem as “respect”.
The players association has been contacted by White Sox players.
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He dodged a question when asked whether he sided with management on their stance, and didn’t appear fazed when told that he’s taking criticism for not confronting the issue instead of Williams. But that wasn’t good enough.
