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2016 MLB Season Thread
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Sounds like the clubhouse is supporting LaRoach and against management on this issue.
The belief is that one of the new players felt uncomfortable. I would expect him to go to management, get something worked out and fall back in line, hence the "united locker room" farce.
It sounds like LaRoche's son was actually helping out around in the club house. Cleaning cleats, etc. Actually contributing to the team. I got nothing wrong with that. It wasn't like he brought a 5 year old kid or that kid from A League of Their Own.
The Chicago media is beginning to confirm that multiple new players were uncomfortable.
Then they should have talked to LaRoche directly about it. Because the established teammates had zero issues with it.
I have no issues with it as long as his son was contributing which it sounds like he was. The biggest argument I have read is the fact how many other jobs allow their kids to be with their parents..... That argument is BS because every job is unique. I am going to get paid to travel the world some day hopefully.... How many get to do that? These guys get paid to hit a baseball and have fun. How many would love to get paid to play their favorite sport vs a desk job? It is entirely up to the individual business( this case team) if they want to allow LaRoche's son to be in the clubhouse and they were fine with it as with the other established teammates. Maybe if the new guys gave it a few weeks, get used to it, see he is pretty much an unofficial batboy, they would have been fine with it. If they couldn't,talk to LaRoche first. Instead they went directly to management right away and set off this incident.
Clearly LaRoche was teetering on the fence about whether he was going to stay on the team at all this year. The whole thing with his son, I think, was just the minor thing that finally swayed him one way. The calculus in his head probably went something like this: "If I can get paid big, spend lots of quality time with my son, and give my son a huge leg-up towards his own baseball career, then I'll play. If any of those factors are taken away, because I don't want or need any of those things in isolation, I'll retire." Everything about this seems perfectly reasonable to me.
He is the father of the year IMO. To want to spend time with your kids over money is great in my book. The dude is already set money wise and his career was on the way down. It's not like he is 25 and just signed a 120 million deal.
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I disagree. or you can look at it that he is a whiner and doesnt want to work. He is acting like a child..."If you dont give me what i want then i wont eat my supper" type of thing ...smh
The team was fine with it, somewhere something went bad. Be it new players or ownership but the majority of the players are not happy with how this played out.
The team was fine with it...just not all of the time.
Nothing went wrong, a new player asked Kenny Williams why the team had this kid in the locker room all the time.
Can't say I remember an athlete announcing retirement 2 seasons in advance. How does he know he won't suffer a career-ending injury in the upcoming season? Maybe he's trying to keep the Yankees from cutting him or more likely, trading him...?
The Yankees have to pay him even if they cut him. And nobody would pick up his contract in a trade. The Yankees have to deal with 2 more years of him.
That reminds me of one of my fave parts of the film Money Ball, Billy Beane reminds David Justice that the Yankees are paying half his salary, not the A's.
Don't forget that the Rangers were paying most of A-Rods salary when they traded him to the Yankees.