Marvin said:
So Bauer, a macho braggard who has never passed up the chance to open his mouth and puff his chest out, is pleading the 5th today. What an absolute midget of a man- yeah, as if we didn't know that already.
Lock this piece of trash up, throw away the key, and tattoo "chode" across his face case he ever sees the light of day.
If you read his bio, he's the exact opposite of macho. He was absolutely obsessed with pitching as a kid to the point of not making friends, and was so disliked by his own teammates that he intentionally graduated high school a year early to get away from them. This is a progression of caustic behavior on his part that his parents and coaches should have tried to get him help for as a kid - but when you're a great athlete at an early age, in many cases people will look the other way about what the rest of your behavior is like or excuse it away as the pressures of being great. The sad fact is that if you're a marvelous athlete, people want to capitalize on that no matter how messed up the rest of your life is. The greatest responsibility a parent, teacher, or coach can exert is to take a troubled child away from the game and focus on their mental health and ability to engage in socially acceptable and healthy behaviors.
In my 1990s sportswriter days, I had to report on 4 different football players who had been great HS talents but once they were out of HS/college, they couldn't find healthy outlets for all that violence they had been so praised and adulated for on the field - 2 committed armed robbery while on Christmas break from Sam Houston, lost their scholarships and each served 8-10; a third broke into an elderly woman's house and raped her and got 20+ in the big house, and the fourth got into an argument with his mom over the remote control and wound up killing her with a butcher knife. He got 40 years for first-degree murder. All of them within 2-5 years of graduating HS.
Trevor Bauer has likely had all these issues for a long time, but becoming a bazilionaire is just letting the darker side of him indulge in whatever effed up stuff he can imagine. He needs to get out of baseball and get help before he further damages someone else or himself, whether that means a prison sentence, probation, or just some intensive therapy, whatever works.