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I'm struggling to think of a sports story this stupid that seemed to get this much coverage locally and nationally. Im drawing a blank. Everybody involved in this story comes across as pathetic except for the kid Drake.


Your guy Favre seemed to draw tons of attention back when he was in NY sexting whoever he ran into.

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I'm struggling to think of a sports story this stupid that seemed to get this much coverage locally and nationally. Im drawing a blank. Everybody involved in this story comes across as pathetic except for the kid Drake.


Your guy Favre seemed to draw tons of attention back when he was in NY sexting whoever he ran into.

Sexting scandals are dumb but they are also pretty run on of the mill and common now. This story is bizarre and much stupider than that story was.

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Adam Eaton: “We lost a leader in Drake”


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“I continue to have complete faith in the skills and abilities of the leadership group of our baseball operations department in Ken Williams, Rick Hahn and Robin Ventura. I also appreciate the passion and commitment to one another shown by our players, Robin, our coaching staff and our front office,” said Reinsdorf. “As with many things in life, much of this was a result of miscommunication and misunderstanding rather than this being a case of anyone not telling the truth. I do not believe there is anyone to directly blame in this situation. While there is no doubt this might have been handled differently, the fact remains that this is an internal matter that we have discussed and now resolved.


“Per my request, White Sox employees will no longer discuss this matter publicly. I felt it was appropriate to release this statement to close the issue for everyone in the organization – from the front office to the players in the clubhouse – so we can focus on Opening Day and winning baseball games for our fans. I am fully confident this matter will soon be behind us and that we will grow even stronger and more united as a team and as an organization.”

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Adam Eaton: “We lost a leader in Drake”


I haven't heard that part of the interview. Are we sure he didn't say, "We lost a leader AND Drake."?

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Adam Eaton: “We lost a leader in Drake”


I haven't heard that part of the interview. Are we sure he didn't say, "We lost a leader AND Drake."?

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/03/19/adam-eaton-we-lost-a-leader-in-drake/


The source in that story is a DRINKY tweet though


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rogers park bryan wrote:
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Adam Eaton: “We lost a leader in Drake”


I haven't heard that part of the interview. Are we sure he didn't say, "We lost a leader AND Drake."?

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/03/19/adam-eaton-we-lost-a-leader-in-drake/


The source in that story is a DRINKY tweet though


Now I'm sure he got the quote wrong.

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Jerry has released his all-important statement:

“I continue to have complete faith in the skills and abilities of the leadership group of our baseball operations department in Ken Williams, Rick Hahn and Robin Ventura. I also appreciate the passion and commitment to one another shown by our players, Robin, our coaching staff and our front office,” said Reinsdorf. “As with many things in life, much of this was a result of miscommunication and misunderstanding rather than this being a case of anyone not telling the truth. I do not believe there is anyone to directly blame in this situation. While there is no doubt this might have been handled differently, the fact remains that this is an internal matter that we have discussed and now resolved.

“Per my request, White Sox employees will no longer discuss this matter publicly. I felt it was appropriate to release this statement to close the issue for everyone in the organization – from the front office to the players in the clubhouse – so we can focus on Opening Day and winning baseball games for our fans. I am fully confident this matter will soon be behind us and that we will grow even stronger and more united as a team and as an organization.”

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Which Media guy will have the balls to bring it up again?
Any?

Cowley would

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 Post subject: Re: Adam LaRoche
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"I am fully confident this matter will soon be behind us and that we will grow even stronger and more united as a team and as an organization.”

Unresolved divisiveness works wonders for middling ball clubs.

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"I am fully confident this matter will soon be behind us and that we will grow even stronger and more united as a team and as an organization.”

Unresolved divisiveness works wonders for middling ball clubs.


Its resolved, Jerry said so.

Just ask Eaton, Sale or Frazier.

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Looks like Eaton gave Rollins the brush-off on a HR today. :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: Adam LaRoche
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Looks like the Chariman got his way....I haven't turned on 670 in over a week but not seeing a whole lot in the news anymore on this.
Squashed succesfully.

Back to the original point before this blew up. This is easily one of the best examples of addition by subtraction. That lineup looks WAY better with the simple removal of LaRoche.

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Looks like the Chariman got his way....I haven't turned on 670 in over a week but not seeing a whole lot in the news anymore on this.
Squashed succesfully.

Back to the original point before this blew up. This is easily one of the best examples of addition by subtraction. That lineup looks WAY better with the simple removal of LaRoche.


I thought about this yesterday and I agree. Whole lot of nothing in the end. Just radio guys hoping a season got ruined so they had a narrative.

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 Post subject: Re: Adam LaRoche
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Looks like the Chariman got his way....I haven't turned on 670 in over a week but not seeing a whole lot in the news anymore on this.
Squashed succesfully.

Back to the original point before this blew up. This is easily one of the best examples of addition by subtraction. That lineup looks WAY better with the simple removal of LaRoche.


I thought about this yesterday and I agree. Whole lot of nothing in the end. Just radio guys hoping a season got ruined so they had a narrative.

Way bigger than that.

This was a national story. It was good timing because nothing else is really going on during spring training.

It's a fleeting story but its not the work of two radio guys


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I wouldn't give the radio guys that much credit. As stupid as this was, it was national news worthy, given the idiocy that the White Sox allowed it to happen, followed by the idiocy of the players voicing their support.

All look stupid when in the end the team improved.

Very clear, though, Jerry still has some weight....he clearly was the one who squashed it in the end.

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rogers park bryan wrote:
pittmike wrote:
wdelaney72 wrote:
Looks like the Chariman got his way....I haven't turned on 670 in over a week but not seeing a whole lot in the news anymore on this.
Squashed succesfully.

Back to the original point before this blew up. This is easily one of the best examples of addition by subtraction. That lineup looks WAY better with the simple removal of LaRoche.


I thought about this yesterday and I agree. Whole lot of nothing in the end. Just radio guys hoping a season got ruined so they had a narrative.

Way bigger than that.

This was a national story. It was good timing because nothing else is really going on during spring training.

It's a fleeting story but its not the work of two radio guys
Matt Harvey not peeing enough is a national story today so maybe being a national story really isn't a big deal at all.

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 Post subject: Re: Adam LaRoche
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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
rogers park bryan wrote:
pittmike wrote:
wdelaney72 wrote:
Looks like the Chariman got his way....I haven't turned on 670 in over a week but not seeing a whole lot in the news anymore on this.
Squashed succesfully.

Back to the original point before this blew up. This is easily one of the best examples of addition by subtraction. That lineup looks WAY better with the simple removal of LaRoche.


I thought about this yesterday and I agree. Whole lot of nothing in the end. Just radio guys hoping a season got ruined so they had a narrative.

Way bigger than that.

This was a national story. It was good timing because nothing else is really going on during spring training.

It's a fleeting story but its not the work of two radio guys
Matt Harvey not peeing enough is a national story today so maybe being a national story really isn't a big deal at all.

The La Roche thing dominated MLB news for about a week and it had nothing to do with local radio guys.

You had players from other teams commenting, new twists every day (The Ace of the staff calling the GM a liar) and there will probably be rule changes based on this.

Nothing like Harvey's story


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It is a whole lot of nothing.

The only real takeaway is that Sale hates Kenny, which isn't a shock.

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
It is a whole lot of nothing.

The only real takeaway is that Sale hates Kenny, which isn't a shock.

There are more takeaways than that but either way, this wasnt some small story that Boers and Bernstein were pushing.

Every National Baseball writer wrote about this and most of them had a few articles.


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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
It is a whole lot of nothing.

The only real takeaway is that Sale hates Kenny, which isn't a shock.


I guess it really isn't a shock to get clear and convincing evidence that Eaton & Sale are both idiots either.

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If it was a lesser franchise like the Cubs it would've been a non story, but to see it envelop huge names like Kenny Williams and Chris Sale and also dominate the discussion around the most popular team in America's 3rd largest city amplified the attention it got. I'm not saying the Sox are on the level of the Yankees or anything, but sometimes the relevance that comes with being Chicago's Team bites you in the ass.


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If it was a lesser franchise like the Cubs it would've been a non story, but to see it envelop huge names like Kenny Williams and Chris Sale and also dominate the discussion around the most popular team in America's 3rd largest city amplified the attention it got. I'm not saying the Sox are on the level of the Yankees or anything, but sometimes the relevance that comes with being Chicago's Team bites you in the ass.
Lots of writers are probably jealous of 2005 too...

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http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/adam-laroc ... d=38358688

What an odd fellow.

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Yeah that's some odd stuff, but largely harmless. Seems like a principled guy.

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Yeah I don't mean "bad" odd.

Just different. Especially for a baseball player.

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I am choosing my son over you guys," he said. "I cannot tell you how much I hate that I'm even having to make this decision, and how much it crushes me to feel like I could be leaving you guys hanging.


He says he gets it, but he doesn't.
I'm sure he is good person, but he doesn't get it. This is not a choice of your son over your team. This is a choice of reality over some really weird alternate world you've been allowed to work in. The problem is, you're bad at baseball now. The team is better off without you. Goodbye.

and yes....Robin, Kenny, Rick are all morons for it even having to come to this.

Now let's get back to playing the games.

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