And the way you describe it, the original analogy is now perfectly apt. That was the point.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to imagine that players might be upset with this. If Adam LaRoche’s kid gets to hang out in the clubhouse 120 games of the year, ride the charter, take drills, etc. What about everyone else’s kids? Is everyone bringing their children to work? Of course not, it’s not appropriate. Work is…

I’m sure if your neighbors are having a loud party at 3 a.m. you’ll ask the police to make sure they know it was you who called, right?

LaRoche is full of shit. If his teammates would have complained to him directly, he would have bad-mouthed them and made them the bad guys. When management asked him to scale back the kid’s presence, he quit. You really think he would have been an adult about this? There’s no evidence he would have.

I agree it’s hard to know the scope of the problem, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the players to expect management to handle stuff like this. The players get paid well to be good at baseball and win games - managers and executives get paid well to (among other things) enforce the rules and deal with dissent…

There’s nothing to gain by being outed as the “bad guy” who doesn’t want his workplace to be daycare. Especially when it’s pretty likely that LaRoche is the kind of bible thumper who would take to Twitter and say things like you’re anti-family and hate Jesus.

This was what I was thinking. LaRoche seems like one of these young earth, kill the homos, ‘Murica types. He’s friends with the guy from Duck Dynasty for Christ’s sake.

Add making me side with Fox News to the reasons I hate Donald Trump.

I wish Republicans would stop trying to repeatedly cram their religion down my throat.

He’s proud, perhaps for the first time ever. I’ll allow it. The real one who lacks class is his ex, who apparently shamed him.