He shouldn't have to worry about that. He'll always have his education to fall back on.

 

Yea he probably will. I'm sure he gets a much better education working with a private Sylvan tutor than he would in a public school.

How dumb are these people to not realize players complained?

 

Jesse Rogers ‏@ESPNChiCubs 7m7 minutes ago

Consensus in Cubs locker room re LaRoche is basically players should have been allowed to police the situation

How dumb are these people to not realize players complained?

 

Jesse Rogers ‏@ESPNChiCubs 7m7 minutes ago

Consensus in Cubs locker room re LaRoche is basically players should have been allowed to police the situation

Thank goodness AJ isn't still around with his blow up doll

Ha ha, no kidding man. How about Swisher's taste in clubhouse décor?

Just some comments.

 

Rosenthal just came out with a column basically asking, "who is running the White Sox show?" something that fans have been asking for the last few years.

 

In it his says there is friction between Hahn and Williams and wonders why the policy wasn't presented by Hahn or Ventura. He also says those two disagreed with Kenny.

 

Obviously this is just another bit of evidence of a somewhat dysfunctional front office...maybe more than we think.

 

Obviously JR should be the one to step in but apparently it doesn't bother him. The only time I can recall that he did so was when he had the pregame press conference in D.C. where he told both Williams and Ozzie to cut it out after the Twitter stuff came out.

 

When your top pitcher tells the V.P. to get out and stay out of the clubhouse, it's not a good thing.

 

LaRoche's leaving help the Sox on the field and may lead to tearing it apart and torpedoing the season when all is said and done.

 

We'll see but this situation appears now to be getting out of control.

 

Mark

 

If players are going to Kenny Williams, it sounds like neither Robin or Rick is taking care of the problem, no?

 

Deadspin is really nailing this.

he will still be able to buy a pony either way

My little pony? That would make him a brony, right?

How dumb are these people to not realize players complained?

 

Jesse Rogers ‏@ESPNChiCubs 7m7 minutes ago

Consensus in Cubs locker room re LaRoche is basically players should have been allowed to police the situation

 

no s***, the players did police the situation because unlike last year the club has real leaders. KW simply decided to play bad cop and act as their proxy.

Do you need an Aspirin or something?

Mido!?

Who would you rather the players hate, KW or Ventura?

 

Noone, but why would you ignore your GM and manager when they tell you that you should not tell LaRoche anything and you completely ignore them and do it anyway, ultimately causeing what appears to be a sizable rift in the clubhouse

So Sale told KW "get the f*** out of the clubhouse"?

Perhaps Sale trying to get 'fired' from his awful contract ...............

I doubt players are going to come out against Laroche in a situation that's basically "management v players" now, they are all in a union.

So the Jimmy Rollins signing was genius. He got LaRoche off the team and saved the White Sox $13 million.

^^^^^ !!! ^^^^^

Noone, but why would you ignore your GM and manager when they tell you that you should not tell LaRoche anything and you completely ignore them and do it anyway, ultimately causeing what appears to be a sizable rift in the clubhouse

 

They did tell KW to talk to him about dialing back, and he refused to listen so KW brought it up again and he quit. KW did nothing bad here, he's just being the bad guy to keep others out of the spotlight. The story is so dumb.

Herb LawrenceVerified account ‏@Ecnerwal23 8m8 minutes ago Imperial Beach, CA

The Sox-LaRoche thing is a win-win for both parties. AL can go out as a martyr instead of a bum player. Sox get bad player/contact off books

Ok, I'm all the way on management's side on this. Forget LaRoche, and get over it, Sale and Eaton, and the rest of the s***-kickers.

Herb LawrenceVerified account ‏@Ecnerwal23 8m8 minutes ago Imperial Beach, CA

The Sox-LaRoche thing is a win-win for both parties. AL can go out as a martyr instead of a bum player. Sox get bad player/contact off books

He's not really going out as a martyr. He's going out as a selfish d-bag.

Ok, I'm all the way on management's side on this. Forget LaRoche, and get over it, Sale and Eaton, and the rest of the s***-kickers.

 

Same. Players need to grow up. They are privileged to play a game they love and probably have never had a conventional business 9-5 job in their life.

 

If they can't get over it, trade them. Don't care how talented they are. They aren't focusing on the big picture, they're focusing on a f***ing 14 year old kid

They did tell KW to talk to him about dialing back, and he refused to listen so KW brought it up again and he quit. KW did nothing bad here, he's just being the bad guy to keep others out of the spotlight. The story is so dumb.

 

The more details that start to trickle in, the more LaRoche just sounds like a selfish asshole. He is solely responsible for creating a very awkward situation.

 

I am never one to stick up for Kenny, but man this was an absolute no win situation. And this is just not dying out.

 

 

Ravech saying that Sale, Robertson and Frazier helped with the decision for the team to play yesterday

 

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=14996172

 

Also, I wonder what "extreme actions" everyone was considering

Edited March 17, 201610 yr by fathom

Here's Sullivan. He has some interesting questions.

 

http://www.redeyechicago.com/ct-no-winners...317-column.html

Wow, Pedro Gomez said a few of the coaches raised concerns about Drake's presence

He's not really going out as a martyr. He's going out as a selfish d-bag.

 

Eh. I won't call him selfish or anything, but I don't get why this is such an unreasonable request. I have no problem with the guy standing up for his beliefs, I just don't get his beliefs.

I think this will blow over eventually, but if it doesn't and the White Sox tank in 2016, my prediction is RH...gone. RV...gone. KW takes back the GM seat.

This situation just seems so bizarre because of the timing. Few weeks before the season and now we have this stupid distraction. Better not give this team an excuse to win 76 games and suck. I really hope this isn't pissing Sale off and leading to a disaster.