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Demovictory9

(32,459 posts) Thu Oct 24, 2019, 06:33 PM Oct 2019

Houston Astros fire executive Brandon Taubman over outburst at women reporters in locker room

(CNN)A Houston Astros executive accused of verbally accosting female journalists has been fired, the team said.

The team announced Thursday that Brandon Taubman, the Astros' assistant general manager, was fired for his postgame outburst aimed at female reporters following Saturday night's American League Championship Series victory.
"His conduct does not reflect the values of our organization and we believe this is the most appropriate course of action," the team said in a statement.

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'Thank God we got Osuna!"
Taubman came under fire after Sports Illustrated published a report Monday detailing an incident that took place when the the team was celebrating its Game 6 ALCS win over the New York Yankees.

The former executive allegedly homed in on three women in the locker room, one wearing a bracelet promoting domestic violence awareness, and said six times, "Thank God we got Osuna! I'm so f***ing glad we got Osuna!"

Osuna joined the Astros in July 2018, just months after he was arrested on assault charges stemming from an incident involving the mother of his 3-year-old son. An Ontario court withdrew the assault charge but MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred suspended Osuna for 75 games without pay, saying the available evidence showed he had violated the league's domestic violence policy, according to MLB.com.
The Astros signed him after investigating the incident and Osuna's background and determining he deserved a second chance following his completion of a league domestic violence program, the team said in a statement.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/24/sport/houston-astros-brandon-taubman/index.html

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Houston Astros fire executive Brandon Taubman over outburst at women reporters in locker room (Original Post) Demovictory9 Oct 2019 OP

He needs to be totally blackballed. LiberalFighter Oct 2019 #1

There's still some firing left to do. Mike 03 Oct 2019 #2

'Times are a'changing' - fast, it seems, in Astroland empedocles Oct 2019 #3

LiberalFighter

(50,959 posts)

1. He needs to be totally blackballed.

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Thu Oct 24, 2019, 06:38 PM

Oct 2019

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)

2. There's still some firing left to do.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2019, 06:43 PM

Oct 2019

From Deadspin:

Astros Fire Brandon Taubman, Now Need To Fire Whoever Smeared Stephanie Apstein

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While the statement offers a meager apology to Apstein, and acknowledges that the organization was wrong with its initial response, noticeably absent is any explanation for why Houston released a strongly worded comment decrying the legitimacy of the Sports Illustrated report, allowed an employee to pull the “as a father of daughters” card while offering a non-apology of his own, and based these decisions on an investigation whose conclusion proved to be far from reality. Who were those “witnesses” who lied to smear Apstein and the other reporters present as fabulists? Who crafted that first statement? What consequences will they face?

This statement also does nothing to address the strange comments Astros GM Jeff Luhnow gave to local station SportsTalk790 about what Taubman did.

“Brandon has apologized from inappropriate behavior and I think, from my perspective, clearly something happened that he regrets,” Luhnow said.

“What we really don’t know is the intent behind the inappropriate comments he made. We may never know that because the person who said them and the people who heard them, at least up to this point, have different perspectives.”

Of course, the breadth of possibilities of with which Taubman’s intentions could have been based on couldn’t possibly extend beyond wanting to be snide towards women, especially one who was wearing a purple domestic violence awareness bracelet and had tweeted about the subject of domestic violence before—which, by all account, Taubman was aware of.

Link: https://deadspin.com/astros-fire-brandon-taubman-now-need-to-fire-whoever-s-1839336722

Thanks for posting this. I never would have become aware of this story otherwise.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

3. 'Times are a'changing' - fast, it seems, in Astroland

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Thu Oct 24, 2019, 07:36 PM

Oct 2019

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