The Trevor Bauer is a Douchebag Thread

[nymr83]

If I'm the manager I'm already calling a moratorium on responding to Bauer in any public way. Take the high ground and focus on baseball.

I have to think that putting Bauer and Stroman in the same rotation would have been toxic from day 1. It's possible that Bauer and Syndergaard could have come to an uneasy truce, but even that is not a guarantee. And we're three days into spring training. And there is no way Bauer could avoid (assuming he'd even try) getting in the spotlight of the New York media. It would have been a circus. Hell, it could still be a circus and he is not even here.

Why would you expect Stroman to have been the issue? it is Syndergaard, not Stroman, who acts similarly to Bauer on social media.

[smg58]

The vibe I get from Bauer is that he would make life difficult for everybody, but he'd be particularly difficult towards Stroman and Stroman wouldn't sit there quietly and take it (nor would I want him to). In hindsight, I could have written what I said much better.

[Frayed Knot]

I'm missing something here, what is the Bauer/Stroman connection (mis-connection)?

[Centerfield]

I think they are arguing about politics on Twitter and it went bad.

Which is surprising because usually talking politics online is so productive.

I’m blocked by Stroman, which is odd because I’ve been very positive about him, and I avoid anything Bauer posts.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I’m blocked by Stroman, which is odd because I’ve been very positive about him, and I avoid anything Bauer posts.

I confess I don't know much about Twitter.

How would such a thing come to pass? Did you get his attention somehow?

[Frayed Knot]

I think they are arguing about politics on Twitter and it went bad.

Is this a recent thing - like concurrently with the Syndergaard beef - or has this been an ongoing issue?

[Edgy MD]

I cannot say for certain what "sub-tweeting means."

[A Boy Named Seo]

Sub-tweeting is referring to somebody without tagging them in said tweet. Pretty on-brand that Bauer took it to "ALL HUMAN BEINGS MATTER"

Edit: Also, did fman say that Alonso deleted social media today?

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, as a, perhaps, monthly Twitter visitor — with all the Twitter sophistication that might imply — I imagine I didn't grab all of the relevant exchanges there, so if anyone has any more to display, please go at it. Garry Sheffield's in that thread, too. Weird.

Hopefully Jae Weong Seo jumps in and sets everybody straight.

[Edgy MD]

This thread keeps putting me in mind of this 40+-year-old memory.

[LWFS]

Sub-tweeting is referring to somebody without tagging them in said tweet. Pretty on-brand that Bauer took it to "ALL HUMAN BEINGS MATTER"

Somewhat besides the point, but... Stroman RESPONDED directly to his tweets, and the tweets of others in his thread. He didn't subtweet a damn thing. Funny that Mr. Extreeeeemely Online messed THAT up, too.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, that's why I thought I missed something in there.

[Lefty Specialist]

And we're just at the pitchers and catchers stage. Dodger fans are going to get tired of Bauer's schtick pretty quickly.

Thank pitchforks and pointed ears we didn't sign him.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I totally missed that Bauer was on the replies. I didn't look past Chuey Martinez. What an absolute tool Bauer is.

[Edgy MD]

Hey, maybe Chuey is Fernando Martinez.

[nymr83]

I think they are arguing about politics on Twitter and it went bad.

Which is surprising because usually talking politics online is so productive.

I’m blocked by Stroman, which is odd because I’ve been very positive about him, and I avoid anything Bauer posts.

Which is just to say they are bored athletes in the offseason. Are there accounts of Bauer's teammates actually not liking him? of Stroman not being adult enough to be a professional when someone he doesnt agree with is on his team? it just seems like garbage to me.

Trevor Bauer will help some team win, unfortunately it won't be our team. There are definitely baseball reasons to think the Mets may NOT regret letting him get away, but the twitter shit is just dumb as far as reasons go.

[TransMonk]

I think the media and fans are making more out of what a Bauer/Stroman teammate relationship would have been like. But the crux of whatever "feud" they seemingly had on Twitter seemed to revolve around race. Like many these days, Bauer seems to revel in being a douchebag and provocateur.

It seems to me that Bauer is much more likely to not act like an adult and professional. There is a difference between not agreeing with the views of someone on the team and being an African American having to deal with a teammate who may constantly spout racial and political views hoping to incite a reaction.

[Edgy MD]

To be fare, Alonso has a lot of crotch.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Put me down for wishing Bauer was a Met. He was sublime last season, the kind of sublime that I don't think was flukish, just like I thought that Daniel Murphy's 2015 metamorphosis wasn't flukish, either.

I know Bauer's a douchebag. I'm not sure I care. Or not care enough to be glad he signed elsewhere. And it would be kind of a fun diversion to go through whatever verbal shenanigans and hijinx ensues. I just endured four years of a fucking madman in charge of this country. This is small-fry stuff, by comparision.

OOOOOh. Bauer said that.

Besides, just think how Bauer would pep up just this forum.

[Edgy MD]

Indulging douchebags and treating their bullshit as merely colorful or something that peps things up is what gave us the fucking madman. At a deeper level, it also gives us Derek Chauvin.

I'm not sure how an organization can justify setting digital miscreants in the front office afloat while giving Bauer the biggest paycheck in baseball history.

He's encouraged people to kill themselves, while siccing social media bullies on them. I'll enjoy my team opposing him a LOT more than watching my team rely on him.

Let us reward public douchebags with the public marginalization they deserve.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Indulging douchebags and treating their bullshit as merely colorful or something that peps things up is what gave us the fucking madman. At a deeper level, it also gives us Derek Chauvin.

All good points. I agree. But I have no control over where Bauer signs, or signed. Not even a speck. If Bauer signed with the Mets, it wouldn't have been because of anything I said or did. What would you do if Bauer signed with the Mets? Would you boycott the Mets? Not follow them? Root for the O's, instead? Leave this forum? Burn your Mets baseball cards?

I wouldn't vote Bauer for President. (Unless he was the Democratic candidate).

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'd take the good with the bad, the way I always do

[Benjamin Grimm]

One day I feel so happy, next day I feel so sad.
I guess I'll learn to take the good with the bad.
Cause each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must I be a teenager in love?

[Edgy MD]

If Bauer signed with the Mets, it wouldn't have been because of anything I said or did. What would you do if Bauer signed with the Mets? Would you boycott the Mets? Not follow them? Root for the O's, instead? Leave this forum? Burn your Mets baseball cards?

I wouldn't vote Bauer for President. (Unless he was the Democratic candidate).

I'd probably take the good with the bad, and publicly advocate against his douchiness, as I did with Harvey. I've invested more in this team than he has. Fuck him.

I'm under no illusion that the Mets haven't seen a parade of miscreants pass through, some even staying a while. But as long as he's not a Met, I'm advocating that he not be one.

I hope that's consistent enough.

[Edgy MD]

I mean, I didn't disown 'Murica the last four years.