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  1. Pringles09

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    HOUSTON — More than an hour after José Altuve won the Astros the pennant, the party in the Houston clubhouse still raged. Rightfielder Josh Reddick crushed Budweisers. Starter Gerrit Cole smoked a cigar. Shortstop Carlos Correa gazed lovingly at the American League championship trophy.

    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!”

    so far as to say that he thought the deal could “actually turn out to be a positive down the road” because it would “raise awareness.”

    But in truth, the Astros' front office acts as if it is tired of being yelled at about this subject. They want to be allowed to play their baseball games and pop their champagne without being forced to think about anything that happened away from the ballpark. They want to be allowed to talk about Osuna the way third baseman Alex Bregman did before the series began, when he called him “a guy you want on the mound for you.”

    Houston is not the only team that used assault as a market inefficiency. In October 2015, Aroldis Chapman allegedly choked his girlfriend, Cristina Barnea, then fired a gun eight times into the wall of his garage. Police said there was not enough evidence to charge him with a crime, but the league suspended him 30 games. The Reds had agreed to trade him to the Dodgers, but L.A. pulled out in wake of the allegations. Instead Cincinnati flipped him to the Yankees for four unremarkable prospects. When New York fell out of contention, it shipped Chapman to the Cubs, with whom he won the World Series. The Yankees received Gleyber Torres, the breakout star of the postseason, in return; that offseason, New York signed Chapman for five years and $86 million. After Osuna blew Game 6 on Saturday, Chapman blew it right back in the bottom of the ninth.


    A year after the assault, Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner considered the fallout. “He admitted he messed up,” he told USA Today. “He paid the penalty. Sooner or later, we forget, right?”

    No. Sooner or later, they forget. No matter what Taubman thinks about it, the rest of us can choose to remember for as long as we want.
     
    #1 Pringles09, Oct 21, 2019
  2. rusHour

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    I dont get it
     
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    lulz ... odd timing for sure.

    How many beers in?

    [​IMG]
     
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  4. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Maybe he was being sarcastic....
     
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    The only person I see Brandon Taubman "under fire" from is the author of this editorial, Stephanie Apstein. Yeah, I read the whole article. This lady has an axe to grind and seems to think that she might as well use a zero-context comment during a drunken celebration to make a big huff about a story that's been settled for a year and then blow it up into the bigger commentary she wanted to write about in the first place.

    This isn't news. There isn't even any actual outrage to report. She's inventing it in the title to serve her narrative.

    Edit: I thought to check afterwards, but the title of this thread is not even the title of the article. So the creator of this thread is being deceptive. This is just an editorial, and a bad one at that. This thread title is inflammatory, considering there is nothing true about it, unless you consider one columnist at SI's opinion to be "under fire."
     
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  6. J.R.

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    Twitter (unsurprisingly) wants him fired.
     
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    This is a non-story. Trying to drum up something in light of the winning. Like JR said though, weird timing after he just blew a lead.
     
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    Unsurprisingly, indeed. I made a few edits to my post after you quoted. I want this thread fired.
     
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  11. REEKO_HTOWN

    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    Just fire him.
     
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    I still don't understand the context... either way.

    Is he randomly yelling at the three female reporters? Seems odd unless he has tourrete's.... or did they continue to ask him questions about the Osuna acquisition... which we all know was quite awhile ago, and seems completely wrong place/wrong time to bring up the morality conflicts that I feel the Astros already addressed (and then some) at the time of the trade.

    Or, if he's supporting Osuna regarding a game situation, why yell incessantly that comment?

    In the end, truth somewhere in the middle... and if this story really goes beyond today, its the slowest of slow news days.
     
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    Hunter Atkins is a NYC native with Steph Curry on his Twitter profile. Just saying.
     
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    I don't either. If anything he is disparaging Osuna for blowing the lead and insinuating that we dont need him. What a strange story right before the Game 1. Why not report this Saturday night or even Sunday?
     
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    He also works for the Chronicle....
     
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    Thank God we got Altuve!
    I'm so ****ing glad we got Bregman.
    And Springer.
    And Correa.
    And Yuli.
    And Brantley.
    And Reddick.
    I'm so ****ing glad we got Verlander.
    Thank God we got Cole!
    And Greinke
    And Harris
    And Pressly
    And I'm so ****ing glad we got Osuna.

    I'm so ****ing glad we got Jim Crane
    I'm so ****ing glad we got Jeff Luhnow
    I'm so ****ing glad we got A.J. Hinch.

    GO ASTROS!
    #TAKEITBACK
     
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    In the middle of a champagne-soaked clubhouse celebration? You're honestly confused about this?
     
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    Now, the Astros are a team that likes to go out on the town,
    We like to drink and fight and **** till curfew comes around
    Then it's time to make the trek,
    We better be back for buddy check,
    It makes a fellow proud to be an Astro.

    Now, Edwards is our catcher and he's really No. 1,
    Dave Bristol said he drinks too much and calls some long home runs,
    But we think John will be all right,
    If we keep him in his room at night,
    It makes a fellow proud to be an Astro.

    Now, our pitching staff's composed of guys who think they're 'pretty cool,'
    With a case of Scotch, a greenie and an old beat-up whirlpool,
    We'll make the other hitters laugh,
    Then calmly break their bats in half,
    It makes a fellow proud to be an Astro.

    Now, Harry Walker is the one that manages this crew,
    He doesn't like it when we drink and fight and smoke and screw,
    But when we win our game each day,
    Then what the **** can Harry say?
    It makes a fellow proud to be an Astro.
     
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    Seriously..
     
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