Look: Trevor Bauer Breaks Silence Before Wild Card Game.
They paid him tens of millions of dollars not to pitch. For his successor,
they had to pay millions more in trade.
They didn’t let him get in the way of their defending their World Series title.
Even yet, the Dodgers can’t seem to get rid of Trevor Bauer.
He’s not going to allow them.
In a backward hat and shoulder-length hair, the exiled pitcher reappeared in public on Tuesday afternoon.
Bauer addressed the sexual assault accusations that led to a paid administrative leave that is now in its fourth month in a 36-second video posted to his once-ubiquitous social media channels.
In the following weeks, he vowed to offer “baseball material.”
Just when he was beginning to fade from public view. The Dodgers were set to begin their playoffs when this happened.
That, without a doubt, was the purpose.
The attention seeker, who had been denied of it, was demanding it.
What a narcissist. How self-centered. Trevor Bauer, in his own words.
The hypocrisy was incredible.
Bauer’s representatives issued a statement last month saying he agreed to extend his paid administrative leave until the playoffs “in a measure of good faith and in an attempt to minimize any disruption to the Dodgers organization and his teammates.”
Yet, as the club prepared to take the field for its last practice before Wednesday’s winner-take-all wild-card game against the St. Louis Cardinals, he was causing a distraction.
Suddenly, the Dodgers’ 106-game winning streak was over.
They weren’t the World Series winners at the time.
They were the idiots who signed a known loose cannon,
for which the district attorney’s office in Los Angeles County is currently contemplating criminal charges.
The Dodgers have successfully avoided discussing Bauer since his early-summer banishment,
but when asked about Bauer’s video, enraged uniformed and nonuniformed personnel alike unleashed waves of expletives.
One Dodgers fan asked, “Are you [kidding] me?”
That specific individual had not yet seen the video.
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Consider what might have happened if that individual had watched the video of Bauer enjoying a leisurely stroll along a street.
Bauer said, “Hey, guys.” “I realize it’s been a while since I’ve contacted you. In the future,
I want to talk about incorrect and misleading accusations. But for the time being,
here’s what I can tell you: A legal issue has been settled.
The full judgment of the judge is accessible and speaks for itself.”
Bauer’s restraining order, which had been sought by a woman accusing him of sexual assault,
was dissolved on Aug. 19.
The Pasadena Police Department investigated the woman’s claims and handed over its findings to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on Aug. 27.
Bauer is also being investigated by Major League Baseball,
which has the authority to impose an unpaid suspension even if criminal charges aren’t filed under a collectively negotiated domestic violence policy.
Bauer stated in his video, “There is a pending issue that I’m not allowed to talk about at this time.”
“With that in mind, I’ll be providing some baseball material here during the playoffs.”
In other words, this isn’t Bauer’s final effort to divert attention away from the Dodgers and onto himself.
As Bauer went on to remark, the contradiction was glaring once more:
“This is a station dedicated to both celebrating and entertaining baseball culture.
And I really like taking you guys along for the trip. As a result, I’ll see you all in a video shortly.”
Celebrate? By reminding fans that one of the sport’s most recognizable brands employs someone accused of sexual conduct so aggressive that it sent a lady to the hospital?
Even before the accusations, Bauer was generally seen as tone-deaf.
What he fails to see is that the court of popular opinion does not follow the same set of rules as the legal system.
Avoiding prosecution will not inevitably earn the public’s approval.
He’ll also have to prove that the claimed violence didn’t happen and that he doesn’t like striking and choking women.
Acquisition under a time constraint Over the past two months, Max Scherzer,
who will start against the Cardinals, has been more than a Cy Young Award-level staff ace for the Dodgers.
He served as cover, the ideal Band-Aid for the front office’s error in signing Bauer.
The dominance of Scherzer obscured the reason for the deal in the first place.
On the eve of their playoff debut, the Dodgers discovered that Bauer is an unforgivable error.
Bauer looms as a possible intruder in every round they progress in the playoffs, providing unsolicited comments and making it more difficult for his nominal colleagues to distance themselves from him.
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