White Sox player says 14-year old Drake was a clubhouse leader

The Chicago White Sox believed a 14-year old kid was a clubhouse leader — no, seriously. 

If you’ve been paying attention to anything other than March Madness over the last 72 hours, you might have caught wind of this bizarre situation on the South Side of Chicago. The White Sox are basically in a Waco style standoff with general manager Kenny Williams over a 14-year old kid.

Here’s the recap: Adam LaRoche retired this past week because Williams said he couldn’t bring his kid to the clubhouse anymore. This is apparently something he’d been doing but for obvious reasons, Williams decided to not allow everyday to be bring your kid to work day.

As far as we know LaRoche’s son, Drake, wasn’t the ball boy or the bat boy and he wasn’t employed in anyway by the White Sox. So the idea that he was there is naturally strange, and the notion that Williams wouldn’t want a player bringing his kid to work makes sense.

Well, it makes sense to everyone unless you play for the Sox.

Adam Eaton went on the radio, presumably while sober and awake, and boldly said that Drake was a clubhouse leader.

Yeah….wait, what?

This is just insane and it’s getting weird. It’s one thing to be miffed that Sox management is backing off the claim that they banned Drake from the clubhouse but it’s another to over-romanticize this the way the Sox players have. This is not Little Big League or Rookie of the Year. Drake is not the saving grace of the franchise — and if he is, then we have other problems afoot. That’s saying a lot, too. Those movies are Oscar-worthy compared to how painful and Razzie-worthy this whole saga has become.

We all sort of hated the Sox before this, but the fact that they’re the equivalent of that mother who has an Honor Student bumper sticker and gets in your face about it makes us hate them more.

Calling a 14-year old a leader in the clubhouse might tighten the bromance between the players but season ticket holders might have some mild reservations about it.