Gap said:
They fired him?
I stopped following the story because I'm sick of the media trying to ruin sports. It bores me. But they got their mark here. Problem is you just empowered them to do it again. Sometimes you have to stand up to the tiny % of America that is the Twitter mob. Sad the Astros organization showed this weakness.
BMX Bandit said:Gap said:
They fired him?
I stopped following the story because I'm sick of the media trying to ruin sports. It bores me. But they got their mark here. Problem is you just empowered them to do it again. Sometimes you have to stand up to the tiny % of America that is the Twitter mob. Sad the Astros organization showed this weakness.
If you had an expendable employee that embarrassed your company at what was suppose ms to be a great moment and he wasn't honest with you about what happened which led you to issue an idiotic denial, you'd just laugh it off?
The entire thing was done in the locker room in front of a lot of people. It situation was supposedly loud and yelled. There are no surprises or new information here if that story is true. There was no "embarassment" for several days before the story was put in print and the usual Twitter mob organized and pretended to REALLY care. Lets recall the quote attributed to him was:BMX Bandit said:Gap said:
They fired him?
I stopped following the story because I'm sick of the media trying to ruin sports. It bores me. But they got their mark here. Problem is you just empowered them to do it again. Sometimes you have to stand up to the tiny % of America that is the Twitter mob. Sad the Astros organization showed this weakness.
If you had an expendable employee that embarrassed your company at what was suppose ms to be a great moment and he wasn't honest with you about what happened which led you to issue an idiotic denial, you'd just laugh it off?
I thought I addressed your question with my first few sentences. What were the lies? Didn't this event occur with the entire team and Astros administration in the room and occur in a loud manner that in the word of the female sports writer were "frightening" especially to the sports writer wearing the "purple domestic violence awareness bracelet".BMX Bandit said:
You completely avoided the question. Well done.
The notion they agree or disagree with the statement bring relevant is quite comical. Guessing you know that
Gap said:I thought I addressed your question with my first few sentences. What were the lies? Didn't this event occur with the entire team and Astros administration in the room and occur in a loud manner that in the word of the female sports writer were "frightening" especially to the sports writer wearing the "purple domestic violence awareness bracelet".BMX Bandit said:
You completely avoided the question. Well done.
The notion they agree or disagree with the statement bring relevant is quite comical. Guessing you know that
Next steps I've seen in the media today after firing Taubman:
1) the Astros' delay in acting responsibly should be remembered at least as much as the fact that they eventually did act (message: not enough was done with the firing to make this go away)
2) Luhnow needs to apologize
3) Luhnow needs to be fired
So, my assumption is that the Astros are trying to appease the Twitter mob to make the story go away. Lesson to be learned, you can't appease the Twitter mob. Their goal is to ruin everything. They really don't care much about the issue they are complaining about. It is just a tool to beat you over the head with their righteousness.
I know you admitted to not following the story, but you really need to understand where and when this happened. It wasn't everyone sitting around quitely and then he starts yelling. It was a madhouse and the likelihood the entire team or administration was in earshot is highly unlikely.Quote:
Didn't this event occur with the entire team and Astros administration in the room and occur in a loud manner that in the word of the female sports writer were "frightening" especially to the sports writer wearing the "purple domestic violence awareness bracelet".
It ends when Luhnow says..ccaggie05 said:
I don't blame the Astros for firing Taubman. It sounds like he wasn't honest when initially asked by the organization what happened, which is what likely led to the initial statement that the Astros are getting raked over the coals about. On top of that, no matter how much those reporters might antagonize you and the team for getting Osuna, as a representative of the front office, you have to have enough self control not to have an outburst like that knowing this is exactly what would happen.
With that said, I'm also not surprised that a certain portion of the media and Twitter mob want more skulls. I just saw a story by Jake Kaplan in The Athletic that is essentially saying, "great you fired Taubman, who's next?". He proceeds to talk about about all the people involved in the initial PR statement prior to release, including Luhnow himself. It's not hard to infer that Kaplan thinks more heads need to roll. People on Twitter want PR folks fired, and some even want Luhnow fired. Where does it end?
THIS^^^bigjag19 said:
I don't understand why you would be saying that after he blew that save.
That alone is grounds for removal.
Agenda memos went out:Quote:
With that said, I'm also not surprised that a certain portion of the media and Twitter mob want more skulls. I just saw a story by Jake Kaplan in The Athletic that is essentially saying, "great you fired Taubman, who's next?"
themissinglink said:
Twitter mob turning on Luhnow now...
Body By Fisher said:Agenda memos went out:Quote:
With that said, I'm also not surprised that a certain portion of the media and Twitter mob want more skulls. I just saw a story by Jake Kaplan in The Athletic that is essentially saying, "great you fired Taubman, who's next?"
The ESPN article was fascinating. A whole lot of resentment at an outsider organization reaching sustainable success, and looking for any reason to indict the whole organization. The Stros have gone from being NASA to having a problematic culture with a pattern of behavior.
And it should be noted that the original SI story was wrong. Nobody singled out a group of reporters because they were female or wearing some special bracelet. It was Alyson Footer, who's always sought some sort of mini celebrity status for being the chick on the Astros beat.
Philip J Fry said:themissinglink said:
Twitter mob turning on Luhnow now...
Right on queue. The left is so predictable. One of these days, there will be a corporation that ignores the twitter mob of fake outrage. Wish it would have been the Astros.
MLB was investigating this and would never let the Astros or any other team take a controversial position.Philip J Fry said:themissinglink said:
Twitter mob turning on Luhnow now...
Right on queue. The left is so predictable. One of these days, there will be a corporation that ignores the twitter mob of fake outrage. Wish it would have been the Astros.