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I guess major league baseball players had to do something to enliven the insufferably boring game they play so they\u2019ve decided to create a stir by supporting Adam LaRoche, the puerile, soft-hitting White Sox first baseman who quit on his team four days ago like a pouty brat because he was told by executive vice president Kenny Williams not to bring his 14-year old son Drake to the ballpark EVERY day.<\/p>\n
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Major league players, who always point to the sanctity of the clubhouse as a place where what goes on there stays there, apparently can disregard that credo when they want to mouth off about their boss who made the grown-up decision that children should not be omnipresent in a workplace environment.\u00a0 White Sox pitcher Chris Sale essentially called Williams a liar while he whined about the LaRoche situation to reporters, apparently distraught that there\u2019s no \u201csafe space\u201d in the White Sox locker room for him and his other pampered and overpaid loser teammates that finished 19 games out of first place last year.<\/p>\n
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Centerfielder Adam Eaton lamented that, \u201cWe lost a leader in Drake,\u201d apparently oblivious to how stupid it sounds that grown men, all multi-millionaires, need to find a beacon of leadership in a 14-year old boy.\u00a0 But leadership is, after all, in short supply in a league where sociopathic behavior like that of David Ortiz pummeling and destroying a dugout phone with his bat is dismissed as simply being competitive, and wife-beaters like Aroldis Chapman get nominal suspensions.\u00a0 But hey, these major league softies aren\u2019t even allowed to run over the catcher or slide anymore.<\/p>\n
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Dodgers\u2019 pitcher Clayton Kershaw, apparently simpatico with LaRoche, conducted an entire interview today with his 14-month old daughter on his lap.\u00a0 Perhaps this toddler could suit up and take the mound when playoff time rolls around so her old man can be spared the indignity of another one of his post-season collapses.<\/p>\n
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Former players got in on the act as well. \u00a0Chipper Jones, that champion of household cohesion, posted on Twitter, \u201cBig ups to my boy for standing up for his beliefs.\u00a0 We play a game.\u00a0 Good for U brother.\u201d\u00a0 Jones, who is on his third wife, this one a former Playboy model who specialized in naked shower scenes, also has an out of wedlock son he sired with a Hooters waitress while cheating on his first wife.\u00a0 But he\u2019s a voice for the major league contingent of the family values crowd.<\/p>\n
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Sadly, this is the age we live in. Me, me, me.\u00a0 From Twitter accounts to cell phone worship, the millennial generation has an insatiable need to be heard and to put its entire doings online for public consumption.\u00a0 Everyone has to pretend they think it\u2019s cute when Stephen Curry lets his obnoxious daughter hijack an interview after the 2015 NBA conference finals, before he finally releases her from his lap and lets someone who appears to be a team official clean up his mess.\u00a0 This spectacle, unwittingly, bears sad testimony to the way many athletes deal with kids\u2014have them and let someone else take care of them when the hard work starts.<\/p>\n
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LaRoche\u2019s actions are equally selfish.\u00a0 He wants the kid around 24\/7, but there is no way he can monitor his son\u2019s actions every minute, so fellow teammates and coaches are expected to bear the brunt.\u00a0 While most players publicly expressed support for LaRoche, some must certainly be aggravated by the constant intrusion, and they are muted lest they be judged harshly by other teammates or the court of public opinion.<\/p>\n
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Jones claims that \u201cwe play a game,\u201d but when LaRoche cites a piffling request to walk away from $13 million a year to play said game, he only reinforces the notion of the selfish, spoiled athletes who are so insulated they don\u2019t even realize that most adults don\u2019t have the luxury of quitting their jobs or EVER bringing their kids to work.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll bet you dollars to doughnuts, that if some other team has use for a sniveling, .207-hitting baby like LaRoche, he\u2019ll tuck his tail quick and come running back despite his \u201cprincipled\u201d stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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