Happy Friday Everyone! Welcome to another edition of Miguel’s Friday Thoughts. I’m going to touch on Adam LaRoche’s unexpected retirement and the NCAA tournament.
One of the top stories of this week is Adam LaRoche’s immediate retirement after the Chicago White Sox VP told him that he can no longer allow his son in the clubhouse. LaRoche, 36, could be walking away from a $19 mil contract. Let me say this. I highly appreciate his level of a great father to his son. I admire him taking a stand and coming to his son’s defense. Here is where I disagree about this situation. I disagree that LoRoche went into extreme measure to retire from the game of baseball due to this situation. It is profoundly ridiculous and insanity. Like come on, I have never seen a job that allows you to bring your kid to work every single day.
It just doesn’t make sense. Could LaRoche reconsider and come back from retirement or could he be remembered from retiring from baseball because his son is not welcomed in the clubhouse anymore? He’s getting mixed reactions from everyone from the sports world. You have some players in the MLB that didn’t have a problem for how Adam handle the situation. Regardless, it was a silly decision to make on Adam’s part.
The 2016 NCAA tournament just recently began. We all love when March Madness arrives. It is one of the most exciting times in college basketball. We have seen some impressive starts lately. For example, Yale Bulldogs. They made their first trip to the NCAA tournament with a victory over Columbia Lions for the first time in 54 years. Yesterday, they picked up their win of the tournament by beating Baylor, 79-75.
They will now square off against the Duke Blue Devils. If the Bulldogs somehow pull an upset over Duke, then they will get notoriously amount of attention. Defeating Duke is a very big deal and it’s not easy to pull off, but anything can happen in this NCAA tournament. It’s only one game. It’s not the best of five or the best of seven games. It’s win or go home.
