Former Brave Adam LaRoche retiring.

[The Chosen One]

http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/a...from-baseball/

“I’ve decided to step away from baseball,” LaRoche said, citing personal reasons. “I’ll have more in a day or two.
“I want to sleep on it again. I didn’t come in yesterday because I wanted to make sure it was the right move and make an emotional decision. I’m confident it is. Out of my respect for these guys and [general manager] Rick [Hahn] they asked me to give it a day or two to confirm.”

Alway wish we kept LaRoche over Scott Thorman!

[Mrs. Meta]

Blah, I remember when he was a rookie.

Passage of time slapping me in the face a lot, lately.

[striker42]

Blah, I remember when he was a rookie.

Passage of time slapping me in the face a lot, lately.

I hear ya. I remember reading about him as a potential ROY candidate in preseason magazines.

[sturg33]

255 career homers ain't too shabby in 10-11 years

[50PoundHead]

255 career homers ain't too shabby in 10-11 years

I never thought he'd last this long with that funky swing, but he certainly did.

[Julio3000]

I hope he doesn't change his mind this summer. It usually took him that long to figure it out.

[goldfly]

walking away from 13 million

he did make 70+ million in his career but still

[bravesnumberone]

Not a bad career at all.

[DaneHill]

Apparently the abrupt announcement was the result of the White Sox GM asking him to stop bringing his kid to work so much (every day). Sounds like it was handled sensitively at the time, but guess LaRoche still took exception to the request.

[Hudson2]

I like LaRoche but he was wrong here. Nobody working for somebody else should bring their kid to work 100% of the time. They ask him to dial it back some so he quit. No way I'd have walked away from 13 million and especially over something like that. Telling your son you can't take him to work everyday doesn't mean you love him any less.

[striker42]

He was told that it wasn't "bring your kid to work" day every day, so he walked away from $13 million and the game he loves, or once did? I hope he had more reasons than that for retiring.

Money isn't a huge motivator for some people, especially when they have made enough to never worry about money again.

Maybe baseball away from his family just wasn't worth it for him. When he had his son there it was, when he was told he couldn't have his son there it wasn't.

I gotta say, if someone handed me $70 million you'd have to give me a tremendous offer to work after that and spend that much time away from family.

[Carp]

I don't see how LaRoche was wrong here. Not saying the White Sox organization is necessarily wrong either. But 20-30 years ago it seems like you saw this quite frequently, with Griffey, Ripken, Prince Fielder, etc. I guess the LaRoche name isn't quite baseball royalty.

Does anyone actually think they'd tell Chris Sale not to bring his kid everyday?

[The Chosen One]

I don't see how LaRoche was wrong here. Not saying the White Sox organization is necessarily wrong either. But 20-30 years ago it seems like you saw this quite frequently, with Griffey, Ripken, Prince Fielder, etc. I guess the LaRoche name isn't quite baseball royalty.

Does anyone actually think they'd tell Chris Sale not to bring his kid everyday?

Or Frank or Konerko.

[Runnin]

I see nothing wrong with what the White Sox asked. The executive is right in trying to set some reasonable limits. It's work. The kid shouldn't be allowed to be there all the time. What if every player did that?

[GovClintonTyree]

Maybe I'm missing something, but....doesn't the kid have school?

I thought the request was pretty reasonable.

[VirginiaBrave]

Maybe I'm missing something, but....doesn't the kid have school?

I thought the request was pretty reasonable.

I think I read where the LaRoches are very religious, if that is indeed the case they may well home school their kids. Seems to be the going thing among the super-rich.

[striker42]

I see nothing wrong with what the White Sox asked. The executive is right in trying to set some reasonable limits. It's work. The kid shouldn't be allowed to be there all the time. What if every player did that?

It's absolutely the team's right to set that limitation. There's nothing wrong with that. It's also absolutely Adam's right to walk away. Nothing wrong with that either. I think too much is made over this. It's simply a case where the conditions set by the employer were not ones that an employee wanted to work under so the employee quit. Happens all the time.

[mqt]

Yeah, LaRoche can do whatever he wants, but it seems like weird parenting to have your kid in the clubhouse every single day. Even if you want to grant that it's a positive to have his family on the road with him everywhere, it's a bit crazy to assume an employer should allow any employee to bring his kid to work at all times.

[Carp]

I see nothing wrong with what the White Sox asked. The executive is right in trying to set some reasonable limits. It's work. The kid shouldn't be allowed to be there all the time. What if every player did that?

This is hardly you're average job. And it's Spring Training. LaRoche won't get hardly anytime to see his kid for the next 6 months.

I think you work something out with LaRoche instead of just telling him, "dial it back."

[The Chosen One]

This is hardly you're average job. And it's Spring Training. LaRoche won't get hardly anytime to see his kid for the next 6 months.

I think you work something out with LaRoche instead of just telling him, "dial it back."

From what I read his son was traveling with the team like Dusty's kid.

His wife arranged his school schedule to be able to travel with him the entire season so this wasn't just spring training.