Posted on 10/24/2019 4:26:00 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
HOUSTON — The Houston Astros have fired Brandon Taubman, the assistant general manager who came under fire for inappropriate comments he made during the team’s clubhouse celebration.
The Astros announced Taubman’s firing Thursday.
Sports Illustrated writer Stephanie Apstein reported during the Astros’ clubhouse celebrating after winning the American League Championship Series, Taubman allegedly shouted, “Thank God we got Osuna! I’m so f------ glad we got Osuna!” during the locker room celebration.
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The Astros gave up and quit the World Series.
They may as well fire this guy.
The Idiot Biden can say “this is a big f*cking deal” about the Usurper signing Obamacare, but this guy gets fired.
Assistant GMs are expendable. They don’t hit. They don’t pitch. They don’t field. They’re not protected by a union.
It was childish and unprofessional. You do that in front of your employers and sometimes you don’t get a second chance.
For what? Using the F word?
Maybe he got fired for thanking the Lord, rather than for the F word.
The guys who hired that dude fired him for saying he’s glad they hired that dude.
Three women reporters were upset over perceived innuendo? BFD. The Astros screwed the pooch on this one.
From what I gather, the investigation determined he said comments to taunt the women who were wearing domestic violence bracelets. They were upset by that and he lost his job. Were they wearing the bracelets to taunt the player? I haven’t seen that raised.
This is what it’s about: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/houston-astros-fire-exec-who-taunted-reporters-about-domestic-violence-n1071566
Weird. Osuna had just given up a game-tying homerun.
So the ladies can’t handle the F word?
I as rooting for the Nats before but now I will celebrate Washington kicking their pansy asses.what ridiculous crap!
“Were they wearing the bracelets to taunt the player?”
The story does not indicate that an Astros player was being taunted.
No, it’s pretty Byzantine....apparently some chick reporter, hanging out in the men’s locker room was wearing a purple domestic violence support bracelet, and the GM asst was excited about a player with a domestic violence accusation.
So manager being happy about a good player who was accused of domestic violence, it happened in a wild celebration immediately after winning the pennant, burt happened in front of a chick, wearing a certain protest bracelet, and the manager should have known purple meant domestic violence... but he didnt, so the chick was triggered.
It’s all unclear how any of it relates to baseball.
Taubman is a moron
STEINBRENNER: You know as painful as it is I had to let a few people go over the years. Yogi Berra, Lou Pinella, Bucky Dent, Billy Martin, Dallas Green, Dick Houser, Bill Virdon, Billy Martin, Scott Marrow, Billy Martin, Bob Lemmon, Billy Martin, Gene Michael, Buck Showalter, … uh, tut!, . . .George, you didn’t hear that from me!
No one was ever going to beat the Nats this year
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