Adam LaRoche and his son

The Red Sox tried that in 2011. Worked out well.

 

Dan Hayes said on the Dan Patrick Show today that the kid was even at most away games.

Yeah, that's a bit much.

 

Or the Red Sox didn't perform very well in 2011 and they scapegoated a few guys. Fried chicken! beer! Video games! Oh my!

 

How did work in their world series years?

 

Looks like the players didn't have a problem with it.

Sources: White Sox players pondered boycott

 

I assume that Williams, Hahn, and maybe others in the front office thought that kid duties were getting in the way of LaRoche's work. That's all I can figure.

 

I have followed this with some interest, not that I am a fan of the White Sox....but when I worked in junior hockey, seven-year-old Huggy Jr. got himself a game-night job in the dressing room doing whatever menial tasks a seven year-old could do like picking up towels and laundry and helping to clean up when the visiting team left. (He kept that job, with increasing responsibility as he got older, until the team moved three years ago and as a 16-year-old still volunteers in the same capacity with the local Jr. B team.)

But he knew that it was where we worked, it wasn't a place to hang around and he was never there or on the road (he traveled with us on occasion) when he was supposed to be in school. In fact his report card was subject to the same scrutiny by the coach as any of the players, a pretty good incentive to do well.

His mother wasn't sure she wanted a little kid like that in an environment with teenage hockey players but he blended into the background because he was supposed to be there, he had a job to do like everybody else and seemed unfazed by anything that went on around him. Many of the players, some of whom are in the NHL, became huge influences on him as he saw the dedication they had, both to what they did on the ice and in school.

 

Right. If the kid's working, like as a batboy or whatever, that's one thing. But this was just him hanging out, apparently.

 

Huh, maybe it was personal.

 

Rosenthal: White Sox not the only team to address this

Bringing kids to work is a big issue for baseball players

 

It was a quick way to get rid of a crappy player.
I want to sympathize with the family- I want to bring my own munchkins everywhere.
But not everyone thinks they're as cute and charming as I do, and I recognize that tacitly.
One of the stories indicated the kid didn't even know who Bo Jackson was.

 

Whoever was behind it, it apparently wasn't Chris Sale: