Adam LaRoche and his son

I'm with Williams. He didn't say the kid couldn't be there. He said the kid couldn't be there every single day. I think that's totally reasonable.

 

Williams is reasonable. Any chance he's speaking for players who aren't comfortable addressing an awkward topic?

 

I think there's a good chance of that.

 

Seemed a little harsh initially, but after further review, it's a little odd that a kid that age would want to be with his dad at work every day. I can understand LaRoche feeling hurt, but as mentioned above, he didn't ban the kid.

 

This really makes no sense. He goes from bringing home $13 mil a year for his family and his kid hanging out during home games once school is out to $0 this year and no games for the kid to hang out.
I think we've all been there to some extent. It's one thing to have a kid around the workplace to distract us from the usual grind and it keeps the bosses from being jerks to the entire newsroom, but there comes a point when you realize it's just because the person doesn't want to pay childcare. Surely Laroche can afford childcare.

If this ends up about being something else, I wouldn't be surprised.

 

It's a certainty.

 

This was mentioned on the baseball thread, but the kid doesn't go to school? I assume they say he's home schooled, but really? I'm with Williams - and LaRoche's teammates, who he's most certainly speaking for. There's no need for the kid to be there every single day.

When I was a teenager, I had adult friends. Like in their 30s and 40s. They were people my parents knew, but they were my friends. I guess I was sort of like the mascot of the group. I spent a lot of time with them and I saw and heard a lot of stuff I shouldn't have, and these were regular people, not professional athletes.

 

He went too far with it, Moddy. I mean, I understand what he's saying. But he's essentially snorting at the idea of a guy who's away from home for eight months and wants to spend quality time with his teen-age son.

There aren't enough parents like LaRoche who care about that, and Haugh saying that the reason isn't valid, or that this wasn't the real reason for his retirement ... well, he's getting off on playing the ugly American.

 

I'm a little uneasy with him pontificating about how LaRoche should be parenting.

 

There aren't enough parents who want to be around their kids? In 2016.

Goodness. Colleges have to chase them off.