Please regale us with your guys Thai whorehouse crusade. We'd love to hear the real story. Why did a couple nobodies from America feel empowered to go put these children in even greater risk? Surely they understood there are more intelligent diplomatic ways to help address this problem, right?

 

Not to mention that there is a sex trade problem in the US.

Give me a break. There are legit organizations and I'm sure his trip was a part of it. http://www.slaverynomore.org

Give me a break. There are legit organizations and I'm sure his trip was a part of it. http://www.slaverynomore.org

It's Adam LaRoche who was a strikeout machine and barely hit .200. For some, if he spent last winter curing cancer he would have done something wrong and obviously had another agenda.

Please regale us with your guys Thai whorehouse crusade. We'd love to hear the real story. Why did a couple nobodies from America feel empowered to go put these children in even greater risk? Surely they understood there are more intelligent diplomatic ways to help address this problem, right?

 

I don't disagree with you. There's a fair amount of evidence to suggest that pimps suspect legitimate aid groups from working with these rescue missions and therefore cut their girls off from vital assistance provided by those groups. So it's fair to say that these rescues may do more harm than good. I have no problem with that.

 

What I do have a problem with is people suggesting that Adam was actually there to score underaged prostitutes. Especially when it comes from a post using language like "Jesus freak", it seems less like principled disagreement and more like bigoted trash.

"I would go to those managers every year," he says. "I would tell them, 'Listen, if there's ever an issue, specifically if a player comes up to you, you've got to let me know.'"

 

I hate this answer. It puts everyone else in a s***ty position where now they've gotta be the guy who goes to complain about a kid being around the team 24/7, and now management's gotta do something about it. Players might feel like assholes for complaining about it until it really just gets out of hand, and then we all see what can happen when management has to deal with bulls*** problems that shouldn't even exist in the first place. Granted, they brought some of that on themselves, but it's still ridiculous for LaRoche to be that un-self-aware of the situation he was creating.

I hate this answer. It puts everyone else in a s***ty position where now they've gotta be the guy who goes to complain about a kid being around the team 24/7, and now management's gotta do something about it. Players might feel like assholes for complaining about it until it really just gets out of hand, and then we all see what can happen when management has to deal with bulls*** problems that shouldn't even exist in the first place. Granted, they brought some of that on themselves, but it's still ridiculous for LaRoche to be that un-self-aware of the situation he was creating.

 

This is what bothered me about the whole situation. By its very nature you are asking your coworkers to be critical of someone's family. That's a tough road to navigate for anyone.

You know...this thread is just awful. I'm closing this thing. I realize people are pissed at the LaRoche situation, but come on. This is just beyond overkill in here and really all of the Drake stuff.