There's No Crying in Baseball! (MLB 2019)

[Xamnam]

Man, the Astros are just an incompetent mess right now.

And in the center of the room, assistant general manager Brandon Taubman turned to a group of three female reporters, including one wearing a purple domestic-violence awareness bracelet, and yelled, half a dozen times, “Thank God we got Osuna! I’m so f------ glad we got Osuna!”


The outburst was offensive and frightening enough that another Houston staffer apologized. The Astros declined to comment. They also declined to make Taubman available for an interview.

Then they claimed Sports Illustrated made that up.

Then more people verified the claim.

Then they gave a canned "I'm sorry if people were offended."

and then this comes out:

[Xamnam]

[monasterymonochrome]

Oct 22, 2019 17:13:05 GMT -6 Xamnam said:

Man, the Astros are just an incompetent mess right now.

And in the center of the room, assistant general manager Brandon Taubman turned to a group of three female reporters, including one wearing a purple domestic-violence awareness bracelet, and yelled, half a dozen times, “Thank God we got Osuna! I’m so f------ glad we got Osuna!”


The outburst was offensive and frightening enough that another Houston staffer apologized. The Astros declined to comment. They also declined to make Taubman available for an interview.

Then they claimed Sports Illustrated made that up.

Then more people verified the claim.

Then they gave a canned "I'm sorry if people were offended."

and then this comes out:

Their whole organization is a toxic mess. Check out these quotes from a Forbes article about sexism and racism at their owner, Jim Crane’s, company back in the late 90s.

“To discourage blacks and women from applying, Eagle managers refused to let female and minority applicants enter its secured facilities to fill out job applications. Eagle disagreed with that assessment.

Crane also warned managers not to hire women of child-bearing age because their productivity would be low. And top company officers told employees that women aren’t suitable for management positions because male managers won’t work with a woman.“

Turns out this is what happens when you bring this organizational culture to sports! Go Nats!

[krentist]

Cubs are about to announce Ross as their manager. Not sure how I feel just yet. Espada seemed legit

[venom]

ross seems like the fan favorite type who's going to be impossible to fire.

also, i thought there was an unwritten rule about not announcing big moves during the world series.

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Oct 23, 2019 8:28:05 GMT -6 venom said:

also, i thought there was an unwritten rule about not announcing big moves during the world series.

Fully expect the Cardinals to throw a bean-ball at Theo first chance they get

[chvrchbarrel]

Oct 23, 2019 8:25:45 GMT -6 krentist said:

Cubs are about to announce Ross as their manager. Not sure how I feel just yet. Espada seemed legit

seems like it has high potential to reveal itself as an egregious self-celebratory move, but willing to see how it pans out.

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Also the MLB is finally hearing the grievance Kris Bryant filed all the way back in 2015 over service time manipulation. Should be interesting to see how this plays out - it's going to have pretty crazy implications should he win.

[fiveiron83321]

Nats with a huge 6 spot in the top of the 7th...hope their bullpen holds it

[chvrchbarrel]

Really wish I could've been up late enough to watch more of the game last night. Reading up on the absolute atrocity of some of the umpiring, which naturally of course makes people ask questions about automating a strike zone.

This is a pretty good article from WaPo

[Javo]

How bout those two girls trying to distract Cole

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2 pitches in Strasburg looks like butt

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71 pitches in Verlander looks v v tired

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George Springer and Juan Soto are very good at baseball

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Umps be umpin

[Deleted]

That might be the worst call I have seen since Denkinger.

Edit: and the baseball gods (and Rendon) agree.

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Props to Dave for getting thrown out in an elimination game of the World Series

But yeah, the worst call in the replay era

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Bobby Cox was the last manager tossed in the World Series. Let's remember a guy.

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Gonna be weird looking at the gamecast on my phone for game 7 listing to Dylan crooning

[Xamnam]

I'm so very glad that the game did not turn on that interference call.

[ten15]

Oct 29, 2019 21:19:38 GMT -6 Tweet said:

Gonna be weird looking at the gamecast on my phone for game 7 listing to Dylan crooning

Best Freudian slip ever.  

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Former Texas Rangers All-Star slugger Josh Hamilton has been charged with injury to a child, a third-degree felony, after his 14-year-old daughter told his ex-wife that he'd struck her.

I, uh, don't necessarily recommend reading that article

[chvrchbarrel]

.........anyone watching this?

Fucking good game.

[Deleted]

Just figured the board was over baseball.

If you're not watching a game 7 in a championship of any sport what the hell.

[Xamnam]

I feel very proud that I called Harris giving up the lead.

[Xamnam]

Admittedly, I wish Osuna had been the one to blow it.

[Xamnam]

Well hey, that's not bad!

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[Pale Hose]

I just got home from Dylan, otherwise I would have been watching the game. The ex-Expos might finally win one huh? I like them, sans Adam Eaton.

[dij22]

This game is excellent so far but I have a nagging worry the Astros are going to win