tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post4752812111998484987..comments2024-03-27T10:29:44.159-07:00Comments on Raising Matt Cain: The OutfieldM.C. O'Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258035192484655635noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-42522899023062500992019-03-04T07:45:44.980-08:002019-03-04T07:45:44.980-08:00Seems like this was inevitable.<a href="https://twitter.com/SFGiants/status/1102593918267355137/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Elist%3Araisingmattcain%3Aupdates&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fraisingmattcain.blogspot.com%2F%22" rel="nofollow">Seems like this was inevitable.</a><br />M.C. O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12258035192484655635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-28832060922952839512019-03-02T12:14:31.026-08:002019-03-02T12:14:31.026-08:00I don't know what to think. The video is not v...I don't know what to think. The video is not very revealing, but Larry Baer does come across like a douchebag. It's ugly, even if it is ultimately nothing.<br /><br />The thing is we don't and probably won't ever know the nature of the Baer's relationship. Larry's carefully maintained, publicly cool, on-top-of-it-all persona has been revealed to be just that, a well-crafted persona. He obviously is capable of bursts of temper. Although it does not appear that he battered his wife, his rage and worse his apparent indifference are dismaying and disappointing. To be fair, his walking away may be an anger management technique, avoiding further inflaming of a volatile moment. Maybe he knows he's a hot-head and is trying to "step away" and cool off. I don't know, I don't think any of us do.<br /><br />Pam Baer is probably luckier than most women in that she has access to powerful and influential people. If she is indeed a battered woman than I suspect she could have the entire Bay Area listen to her if she felt the need to speak out. Many women in abusive relationships have no options--I suspect Pam Baer does. I'm not saying she's a battered wife or she's in an abusive relationship, just that her situation is different than say a working-class housewife. If Pam Baer needs help (legal, emotional, etc.) she can get it even if Larry Baer is a bigshot.<br /><br />In the end, short of any new information, we are left with very little. Larry Baer is an ambitious and successful man and probably used to being the cock-of-the-walk around the house. Pam Baer is probably an intelligent and accomplished woman and well aware of her husband's failings and weaknesses. But again, I'm speculating.<br /><br />Generally I don't look to newsy events to wag my finger, cast blame, or tsk-tsk others' behaviors. In fact I try very hard to "love the sinner and hate the sin" because I hold forgiveness as among the highest of virtues (you can thank my Catholic upbringing). Since I don't really know anything, I've let the Baer's public statements be the source of information. And I scrupulously avoid politicizing such things as the nattering nabobs will happily provide plenty of socio-cultural analyses that will unfortunately reflect the analysts' biases more than offer us any insight.<br /><br />Do you believe in redemption? Can a person be bad and good at the same time? "Yes" to both. John Lennon admitted to abusing, verbally and physically, his first wife, and he was infamously indifferent, even neglectful to their son Julian. Yet most fans believe he was a good man who tried to grow and be a better person. Was he? I don't know, and you don't either. But I believe that growth and change are more important than a catalog of mistakes and mis-deeds.<br /><br />And that's all I have to say about that. (Unless of course y'all chime in!)<br />M.C. O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12258035192484655635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-43719222179667323272019-03-02T11:38:06.207-08:002019-03-02T11:38:06.207-08:00Larry Baer said more later:
"I am truly sorr...Larry Baer said more later:<br /><br />"I am truly sorry for the pain that I have brought to my wife, children and to the organization. It is not reflective of the kind of a person that I aspire to be but it happened and I will do whatever it takes to make sure that I never behave in such an inappropriate manner again.”<br />M.C. O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12258035192484655635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-70960473010775648852019-03-02T11:36:46.320-08:002019-03-02T11:36:46.320-08:00Pam Baer released this statement
". . . Larr...<a href="https://twitter.com/EvanSernoffsky/status/1101672891534303233/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1101672891534303233&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.knbr.com%2F2019%2F03%2F01%2Fpam-and-larry-baer-give-official-statement-on-heated-argument%2F" rel="nofollow">Pam Baer released this statement</a><br /><br />". . . Larry and I always have been and still are happily married."<br />M.C. O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12258035192484655635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-19986971322095476232019-03-01T15:22:49.298-08:002019-03-01T15:22:49.298-08:00MLBTR has this quote:
Both of the Baers commented...<a href="https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/03/giants-ceo-larry-baer-involved-in-public-altercation-with-his-wife.html" rel="nofollow">MLBTR has this quote:</a><br /><br />Both of the Baers commented on the situation to the Chronicle. Pam Baer described the incident as, “We were having a family fight about someone in my family and that’s it.” Larry Baer went into slightly more detail, saying “My wife and I had an unfortunate public argument related to a family member and she had an injured foot and she fell off her chair in the course of the argument. The matter is resolved. It was a squabble over a cell phone. Obviously, it’s embarrassing.”<br />M.C. O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12258035192484655635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7941261488380355005.post-63339338851958446342019-03-01T15:20:46.666-08:002019-03-01T15:20:46.666-08:00Tweet from Baggs
Statement from Pam and Larry Bae...<a href="https://twitter.com/extrabaggs" rel="nofollow">Tweet from Baggs</a><br /><br />Statement from Pam and Larry Baer<br /><br />Regrettably today we had a heated argument in public over a family matter. We are deeply embarrassed by the situation and have resolved the issue.<br /><br />M.C. O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12258035192484655635noreply@blogger.com