The Trevor Bauer assault allegations

Since he’s on the downward slope of his career I expect some short term discomfort. But he’s a professional athlete, so the legal process will play out slowly and any resolution will
Occur in the off season. ‘journalists’ will avoid asking about because they respect his privacy and due process. They also don’t want to be seen in a negative light in the club house, their access to inane quotes might be in jeopardy if they treated a ball player who beats his wife like a police officer who beats his wife. They will however dig up the background on his wife and treat her unpaid parking tickets from 2012 as a Casus Belli.

 

According to Bauer's lawyer, he has numerous texts, etc., from her that will completely exonerate him, even if he clearly was beyond stupid to get within 100 miles of any possible involvement with this person.

That's why we have trials, I guess.

 

I can't read stuff from the Athletic, and I haven't read much about this, but if there's actual evidence and these allegations are strong, they have to suspend him don't they?

 

It has been almost eight months since he won a Cy Young award.

 

Bauer’s complete defense appears to be, she wanted it.

 

But we can't understand why women hesitate to report sexual assault? /crossthread

 

Then the texts better be very specific, and even then it's iffy. Head trauma and strangulation is going to be tough to gloss over.

 

People are into what they’re into, but if it’s ending with someone with a concussion and strangulation marks (outside of a legitimate accident in the case of concussion), there has been a crossing of boundaries. Even if he has screenshots from the day after.

I personally think casual sex and rough sex are a bad combination (something like that requires communication, context and empathy not easily built over a dm or short period of time), but no matter what it can’t get to that point.

 

First impression, it reminds me a bit of the Kobe case, which I covered. Consensual sex goes badly awry. One participant agrees to certain sex acts, but not other acts (anal sex, in both cases). There will be the loudmouths screaming WHAT DID SHE EXPECT WHEN SHE WENT TO HIS ROOM? And others who try to explain that consenting to, say, oral or vaginal sex doesn't give another person the right to every orifice.
In this case, I found it interesting that both agreed to a safe word before their second meeting, according to her statement to police. And that second meeting is apparently where she was beaten, causing her to go to the hospital.