The Trevor Bauer is a Douchebag Thread

[batmagadanleadoff]

Trevor Bauer, Noah Syndergaard get into heated Twitter spat: ‘See you at the bottom

https://nypost.com/2021/02/19/trevor-ba ... tter-spat/

It took all of a week for Trevor Bauer to get stupid on social media again as Noah Syndergaard lays the hammer down

https://deadspin.com/it-took-all-of-a-w ... 1846314975

[Edgy MD]

Syndy ain't coming out on top there.

[vtmet7]

Syndy ain't coming out on top there.

true, but at least someone other than a fan or a sportswriter called the douche out

[batmagadanleadoff]

Syndy ain't coming out on top there.

Totally agree. But if I named the thread the Bauer and Syndergaard douchebag thread, youse would revolt. Besides, now we can sign Syndy what with all the money that was saved that almost sent Cohen to the poorhouse in his foolish (/rollseyes sarcastically) attempt to sign Bauer.

On another note, Bauer's average Bill James game score for his 12 starts from 2020 season was 69. Apropos of another discussion we had, I'm pretty certain, though not 100% positive, that Syndergaard never had a 12 game stretch where his average BJGS was 69. I did a quick check.

[Edgy MD]

Syndy ain't coming out on top there.

Totally agree. But if I named the thread the Bauer and Syndergaard douchebag thread, youse would revolt.

Oh, an agenda. Got it.

[ashie62]

The wife and get laid comments by Noah are not befitting of any person.

Stand back Noah, you cannot win this.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Syndy ain't coming out on top there.

Totally agree. But if I named the thread the Bauer and Syndergaard douchebag thread, youse would revolt.

Oh, an agenda. Got it.

No idea. Not even a fraction of an idea. May I buy a vowel?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Syndergaard's first tweet was genuinely funny.

Bauer cannot take a joke and is a hypocrite

Sydergaard does post way too many shirtless photos not to be catching shit of his own.

Neither guy is an angel

[ashie62]

Bad behavior by Noah and Bauer on twitter.

I learned by 1/6/21 that twitter is not good for much of anything, much less settle a dispute.

You cannot engage Bauer and come out on top.

[batmagadanleadoff]

This is the bad (very bad) Syndergaard tweet:

“show [my shirtless pic] to your wife,” [Syndergaard] wrote. “Guaranteed she wouldn’t want to me to put a shirt on… you might actually get laid bc of that but she’ll be thinking of me.”

https://nypost.com/2021/02/19/trevor-ba ... tter-spat/

[MFS62]

“show [my shirtless pic] to your wife,” ... “Guaranteed she wouldn’t want to me to put a shirt on… you might actually get laid bc of that but she’ll be thinking of me.”

I'll take "Things Bartolo Colon never tweeted" for $400, Ken.

Later

[Fman99]

Yuck.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

I'm glad we didn't sign Bauer. The New York media would be constantly be trying to provoke him, and he clearly can't resist taking the bait. It would be one thing after another.

[LWFS]

Like JCL said, the first tweet was a zing-y, good-natured troll job. Bauer's response was to mine Syndergaard's timeline on another social-media app-- or, rather, to pull out something he'd PREVIOUSLY mined much earlier, according to the apparent timestamp-- for something objectionable... which is at least as cringeworthy in and of itself as Thor's doofy machismo. Also... considering his long history of being a variegated ass on Twitter, it seems like a pretty questionable decision.

Y'know, like getting superpissy over something ELSE, a day afterward. With ANOTHER Met pitcher. (BONUS: Extremely roundabout "All Lives Matter!")

[Edgy MD]

"Homie"?

Man, I hope they let pitchers bat forever.

[Lefty Specialist]

Looks like plenty of dbag to go around.

[ashie62]

Dodgers-Mets should be fun.

[LWFS]

"Homie"?

Man, I hope they let pitchers bat forever.

I don't think he's an absolutely irredeemable, awful human. But he definitely doesn't seem inclined toward self-reflection, and he positively REEKS of overpraised-as-a-child. I think he really, really thinks he's being subtle with shit like this.

Some people, when plopped into insanely-complicated social milieu-- online subcultures, bustling marketplaces in foreign countries, arcane-industry workplaces-- just get the basics of what's going on, almost-innately, and with a hefty soupcon of close listening. Others read the literature, slam the audiobooks, and otherwise try really, really hard... to varying effect. Trevor? Well, he works hard. I just think that-- as much as he puts time into this-- he's TERRIBLE at this online thing.

[Edgy MD]

A problem with learning how to behave online is the historical utter lack of consequences.

Trevor, yeah, doesn't seem to know a lot about consequences.

[nymr83]

I'm glad we didn't sign Bauer. The New York media would be constantly be trying to provoke him, and he clearly can't resist taking the bait. It would be one thing after another.

its only a distraction if it distracts the people who matter - ie the players and to a lesser extent coaches. If the fans want to get bent out of shape over tweets it won't hurt the win column.

want a real distraction? it ain't coming from the orange and blue side of town...

“I think sometimes you don’t get to control who your teammates are and that’s the situation,” Britton said. “I don’t agree with what he did. I don’t think it has any place in the game or off the field or at all.”

[smg58]

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.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

A problem with learning how to behave online is the historical utter lack of consequences.

Trevor, yeah, doesn't seem to know a lot about consequences.

I think it can be argued that online douchiness in fact raised Bauer's profile to an extent, and is reflected in the millions he's earning. If you have the goods, and your self-promotion helps to make the case you do, there's little that can't be gotten away with. The message is, I'm so fucking great at what I do I can be a dick

[Edgy MD]

Yes, that phenomenon has given us a presidency. And every school playground bully has his batch of retainers, who line up behind him to enjoy a small piece of his power.

There's never a shortage of little dicks who want to be a part of big dick's dick army.

[Edgy MD]

And maybe I'm seeing a pattern where there is none, but Cincinnati seems to have a history stretching way back of being the town where pitchers launch a second career playing the heel.

Bronson Arroyo, Endison Volquez, The Nasty Boys, Pedro Borbon, Aroldis Chapman, Aaron Harang.

[Fman99]

Now the latest is Piss Missile Pete dumping his social media accounts. I feel like we need a thread just to keep up with the various dramas of Instagrab and Twatter and how these guys manage to consistently punch themselves in the crotch, virtually speaking.