“Here’s what ESPN needs to get: this is not a special person. There’s nothing to get here.”

OK, so part of me thought that this is somewhat valid because if your kid is pulling straight As but is also a jerk, then you should be aware of that and talk to your kid blah blah. But the fact that he interrupted the teacher - who he would probably REAM for not doing her damn job if his kids weren’t doing well - in…

Can you hear the platitudes, empty as the Kansas state treasury?

Dress up like Chris Tucker in The Fifth Element and hit the ballpark every day.

More of this please. You seem to be the only member of the old school “good joke or GTFO”crowd still hanging around and making good jokes.

Nope. Neither Keown’s piece nor LaRoche strike me as “good.”

Also former baseball guy. One season we had a coach who also brought his kid with him to the ballpark every single day (he was a single dad).

Still, a clubhouse? That fortress of testosterone-laced stupidity? The only time LaRoche — intensely religious and openly conservative — sounds wistful is when he says, “There’s no other workplace where you walk in and guys are slapping each other in the nuts and saying the stuff they do.”

Well, it’s a poorly-written piece. And unless your definition of “good” is vastly different than mine, LaRoche is not “good.”

Speaking of Insane:

“Listen, no disrespect at all, but I honestly don’t care about their grades or how they’re scoring,” he said. “All I care about is two questions: How are they treating their classmates, and how are they treating you?”

Adam LaRoche to Sex Trafficker: “But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”

I worked in a clubhouse in the mid to late 90's and no one’s kids hung out like that. That’s a weird fucking place to have your kid hang out. A locker room and homeschooling are in no ways microcosms of anyone’s real world.

Adam LaRoche isn’t like other professional athletes.

Then there’s this: LaRoche, along with Brewers pitcher Blaine Boyer, spent 10 days in November in Southeast Asian brothels, wearing a hidden camera and doing undercover work to help rescue underage sex slaves.

I worked for the Nationals a few years ago. In my time at the MLB and MiLB level no other player had their kid around as often as he did. Not a single one. Having kids around every so often, especially during the summer, is pretty common. They get to meet all the other players, play catch with dad, etc etc. But…

Then there’s this: LaRoche, along with Brewers pitcher Blaine Boyer, spent 10 days in November in Southeast Asian brothels, wearing a hidden camera and doing undercover work to help rescue underage sex slaves.