Astros Ass't GM Brandon Taubman: Asshole (and Now He Is a Fired Asshole)

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so we are all rooting for a nats sweep now right? i was before but just checking to see if everyone else is now hoping DC demolishes them
I almost want it to go to extras in 7 and have the Nats win in some improbable, awful, gut-wrenching way.
 
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She'd be taking a more principled stand if she wasn't also accepting quite a pretty penny to shill for the team that acquired Aroldis Chapman not once, but twice. Conceding that every team in major league professional sports has signed its share of shitbags despite knowing all their baggage, and that the Taubman episode and all the Astros' actions surrounding it adds a different layer to the situation, Waldman being "unable to watch" this World Series strikes a slightly false note with me, despite her attempts to explain it. Maybe Tara Sullivan should have asked her about that? Or if she did ask about it, she could have included Suzyn's response (or non-response) in the story? Wondering if anyone else had the same reaction reading this or if my reflexive distaste for Suzyn Waldman is coloring my take.
 

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Was just coming to post this. It's an honorable position. That said, does she have positon on her own team's closer? I haven't been able to find one. As best I can tell, her position is there will always be teams enabling abusive players, but you don't have to rub it in women's faces.

Seems kind of weak to me.
 

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She'd be taking a more principled stand if she wasn't also accepting quite a pretty penny to shill for the team that acquired Aroldis Chapman not once, but twice. Conceding that every team in major league professional sports has signed its share of shitbags despite knowing all their baggage, and that the Taubman episode and all the Astros' actions surrounding it adds a different layer to the situation, Waldman being "unable to watch" this World Series strikes a slightly false note with me, despite her attempts to explain it. Maybe Tara Sullivan should have asked her about that? Or if she did ask about it, she could have included Suzyn's response (or non-response) in the story? Wondering if anyone else had the same reaction reading this or if my reflexive distaste for Suzyn Waldman is coloring my take.
I had the exact same reaction, but I'm sure my reflexive distaste is coloring my take.
 

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Was just coming to post this. It's an honorable position. That said, does she have positon on her own team's closer? I haven't been able to find one. As best I can tell, her position is there will always be teams enabling abusive players, but you don't have to rub it in women's faces.

Seems kind of weak to me.
It’s not about the abuser, she (conveniently) says.

“Listen, they did what they did [signing him], and Osuna did what he did,” Waldman said of the domestic violence case that wasn’t prosecuted when the victim declined to return from her home in Mexico to testify. “He’ll pay for it in a way. He’s never going to see that child or whatever. The [Astros] did what they did. I understand it. I don’t like it, but I understand it. The problem is lying, trying to cover up something that is so hideous anyway, then blaming it on a young woman and trying to ruin her career. That’s the part I can’t look her in the face.

“What they did was worse than Taubman yelling at her, which is vile enough. They tried to ruin a young woman’s career. How do you come back from that?”
 

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It’s not about the abuser, she (conveniently) says.
This has been my problem with this issue the entire time. Every time a team signs an abuser it’s a giant fuck you. Taubman just spoke aloud what happened in the boardroom. It’s a completely misfired use of outrage.

And “not seeing the kid or whatever” isn’t the way it works.
 

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The Astros front office is so fucked, Nolan is taking his fastball and going, er, not home.

View: https://twitter.com/markbermanfox26/status/1192532519629049858?s=21
I wouldn't assume this is dysfunction on the part of the front office. From his tone, good possibility of him not being a fan of analytics but still wanting an actual role in the front office, while the Astros wanted him to simply show up at season ticket holder functions.

EDIT: Or maybe not, per above.