When Trevor Bauer introduces Dodger, the media keeps his legs misogynistic for … a comfortable, warm, crackling fire

I can’t sum this up better than Craig Calcattera did, so let’s start here:

Trevor Bauer had his introductory press conference / Zoom meeting with the Dodgers and assembled baseball media yesterday. And we have to give them a small amount of credit (the exact amount, to quote Alan Arkin from the movie Argo, would be buffalo shit on a nickel) that they even bothered to ask Bauer about his past behavior on social media. To review, Bauer was a misogynist, transphobic, harassing pig in the past. But previously, people like Bauer weren’t even asked the question. Take Tom Brady and Antonio Brown in the past Super Bowl, for example.

So Bauer approached her. Barely. And not even really. It was the most superficial date you can imagine.

“All the conversations I’ve had with people from all walks of life over the last two years and all the things I’ve learned – I can say I’ve learned from them,” Bauer said after being introduced to no. 27 T-shirts during a virtual press conference at Dodger Stadium. “I spent a lot of time talking to other people to try to understand other perspectives and I do my best to be better, as I do in all categories of my life. I don’t think it makes any sense to dive into specific issues in this forum, but I commit to being better on social media, being better on the field, being better in the club, being better in life in general. ”

And this answer, does not answer anything, did not generate a follow-up question, a note of caution, criticism, anything. What did Bauer learn? Who did he talk to? What perspectives? It is absolutely logical to dive into the details, but the reason he does not want it is most likely because he did not do nonsense. Why? He just signed for $ 40 million this year. Where are the consequences? You can be sure that he will return to his shit the next time a woman sneezes on him on Twitter. And this check will continue to cash.

And yet it becomes titles like this on ESPN, as if it had turned a new leaf. Or this on MLB.com, as if that were enough. At least that play mentioned his past actions, including a lack of apology. There it is Jon Heyman to support those attending the press conference, even though, again, Bauer said nothing, there were no further questions, Bauer took no responsibility, and the article Heyman retweets says the same. It seems that the slightest effort to question anyone about this type of behavior is treated like William Wallace conquering the English, so the baseball press doesn’t have to do it again.

And GM Andrew Friedman was no better.

“The most important thing is every teammate I talked to, all the feedback I received from every organization he was with, they were not only incredibly positive about the type of teammate he has. , but also in terms of the impact it has on each organization, ”Friedman said when asked if he thought he could alienate some of the team’s fans by signing Bauer. “I think the talent is pretty obvious. But I also think that, from a cultural point of view, from continuing our efforts to improve everything we do, I think he will be an extraordinary asset in that. It’s not for me to speak for Trevor, but in our conversations he alluded to past mistakes he made. And you know what, we’re all going to make mistakes. What is important to me is how people – including me, when they make mistakes – is how we internalize it and what our thoughts are about it in the future. From our point of view, it was important to have this conversation. And we came out of it feeling good about it. Now, obviously, time will tell. But I feel that it will be an extraordinary supplement, not only on the field, but in the club, in the community and that is why, obviously, that is why we are here. ”

Friedman, like Bauer, says nothing Here. Did he talk to the women Bauer harassed? Hell, no. Did he talk to a woman about Bauer? Not. But did he talk to Bauer’s former teammates? What will they tell you? Are those whose lives hell made them?

As for future thoughts, to repeat myself ad nauseum, Bauer said nothing about what he will do before he is “better.” Damn, thaIt’s a timid step towards Melania’s pointless “Be the Best” campaign against cyberbullying, when her husband was the poster child for it. “Be better” could mean anything. And because of that it means nothing.

But hey, he actually had to approach it with a burger for nothing, so everyone baseball media thinks suddenly they are Woodward and Bernstein of sexism.