Ex-clubbie: Locker room not for kids

guys, women were just a piece of a--. Almost everybody cheated on their wives — although some of the wives cheated on their husbands, too. We’d be on the team bus and women would drive up next to us and flash their t---. If you’re around that all day long you mighty start to think of women as a piece of a--, too.”

Radomski, as street-wise kid from the Bronx, says the first time he saw somebody do cocaine was in the Shea clubhouse. Some players pounded beers in the clubhouse after every home game.

“Guys would drink eight or 10 beers a nd d r ive home,” he says.

Radomski says Dra ke L a Roche probably hasn’t witnessed the kind of big-league sins he saw back in the ’80s and ’90s because players now are more focused on fitness than partying. “They are more worried about their bodies breaking down,” he says. “There is a lot more money now at stake. Now it’s all about business. Back then it was more of a frat house.”

But kids still don’t belong i n baseball clubhouses, he says. “It’s great that LaRoche wants his kid in the locker room, but what about the other 24 guys on the team? What if everybody wanted to bring their kids in the locker room and give them a locker? That’s not going to work.”

Radomski says Drake LaRoche would probably be better off going to a traditional school and hanging around with kids his own age because life in MLB clubhouses is more fantasy than real world. “In the real world people don’t make a million dollars a week and people don’t give you sneakers and gloves for free. In the real world, you can’t just drop you dirty clothes on the floor so someone will pick them up and washes them. I think it’s great that LaRoche wants to spend time with his son, but is that the kind of environment you want for your kid?”