I have a tremendous amount of respect for the posters on this website. IMHO this discussion is representative of many of the problems in our country. Hands up for everyone who was present during the conversations???? No one? Well then hands up for all of you who were a part of Adams contract discussions with the Sox??? Hmmm...How about anyone who knows Drake and what contributions he makes to the Sox when he is in the clubhouse??? Wow, still no one??? I am sure you were all there when Adam was growing up in the clubhouse under his dad Dave LaRouche and observed what that experience instilled in him???? What I have read a great deal if is "I think" or "I bet", or "this is not a good thing for the kid" or "it is a business I don't take my kid to work" on the radio I heard this morning that LaRoache was stunting his sons social development by having him around adults all day instead of kids his own age.
My point is every word in every post written here may be true or is may be utter BS but we have no way of knowing. We see an article that peaks our interest and we have an opinion 30 seconds after reading the article. The article may be accurate, might be slanted or even a flat out attempt to deceive but we do not care. Truth has lost value and been replace by a belief that our opinion is not only important but also right and everyone else should think like me.
150 years ago teenage boys spent most of their time with their fathers, in the fields or in the store, at work and they were modeled what it was to be a man. They saw them work hard, deal with frustration, anger, success, annoyances, they saw them on good days and on bad days. Today we separate work from family and call it progress. As a result I meet too many young men today who have no idea what being a man is all about.
If Adam LaRoache believes that his role as a Dad is to teach his son how to be the best man he can and that his son is best served by being with him every day and that role is more important than the 13 million he is due then he is doing the right thing. It is not my son or my life, I do not have the facts or the experience to judge him or the wisdom of his choice. The fact that every player on the Sox and his former teammates on the Nationals all came out in support of him and the man his son is turning out to be tells me maybe he is on to something and we would be best served to sit back and as Paul Harvey used to say wait for "The rest of the story"
If anyone is offended by these words I apologize that you feel that way. My hope is only that we will take a moment to reflect and in that reflection might hug our kids or grand kids a little tighter and care a little less about the next hitting lesson, pitching lesson, business meeting or whatever distracts us from the important things in life. "Baseball is a game even though some people get rich playing it"