{"id":79499,"date":"2024-04-04T21:39:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/bob-nightengale-keeps-trying-to-rehab-trevor-bauer\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T21:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T21:39:51","slug":"bob-nightengale-keeps-trying-to-rehab-trevor-bauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/bob-nightengale-keeps-trying-to-rehab-trevor-bauer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Nightengale keeps trying to rehab Trevor Bauer"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sometimes, there\u2019s no choice but to cover a vile person in sports because they are doing something that can\u2019t be ignored. Trevor Bauer is not that, but that didn\u2019t stop Bob Nightengale from auditioning to get on his payroll<\/a><\/span>, next to Rachel Luba, whatever it is she does other than be the occasional bullhorn. <\/p>\n

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Mike Tyson will hospitalize Jake Paul on Netflix<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Nightingale was only too happy to try to gloss over what got Bauer booted from Major League Baseball, and to advocate for Bauer\u2019s completely meaningless run-out against Dodgers minor leaguers. Nightingale was seemingly eager to also point out that there were fans cheering on Bauer and that no one booed, forgetting that you can find 100 loons to support any cause. Hell, you can find 70 million to do so, as we\u2019ve all learned from our last elections. The fact that there wasn\u2019t anyone around to boo doesn\u2019t mean the baseball world has forgiven Bauer. It\u2019s that we were all pretty secure we\u2019d banished him successfully to the land of wind and ghosts of baseball and that he would stay there. Also, who really can be bothered to go watch a backfield game involving no MLB players other than the kind of sickos who want to broadcast to the world that sexual assault isn\u2019t a disqualifying factor?<\/p>\n

Nightengale could have left it all alone, as everyone else seemingly has, but perhaps he can\u2019t help picking scabs (with Bauer being an especially puss-filled one). He only mentions that Bauer was suspended for breaking MLB\u2019s rules on domestic violence and sexual assault policy, without mentioning the horrible things Bauer has been accuse of by multiple <\/em>women, which were at least believable enough for MLB to punt him from the league. <\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t as important to Nightengale as to what Bauer hit on the radar gun or how some minor leaguers couldn\u2019t hit him, as if there was some doubt about Bauer\u2019s talent or this was some comeback story from injury or age. It\u2019s yet another infuriating example of how issues in sports, much like the many others, are just assumed to have two sides. It started with the plague that is Skip Bayless yelling about something at someone like a regular tornado siren test, but slithers into this much darker realm. Just because Bauer was suspended and would like to pitch in MLB again does not mean someone needs to take up his case or that he has some right to do so. <\/p>\n

Bauer lost the privilege of being a MLB player and everyone\u2019s happier that way. There is no redemption arc here. And Nightengale doesn\u2019t need to fashion one simply because he feels like it. Let Bauer occupy his nowhere world that he\u2019s earned and we\u2019ll all move on. But then again, Nightengale has always kind of existed in his own nowhere world of idiocy. Perhaps that\u2019s why he\u2019s drawn to Bauer in the first place. <\/p>\n

USWNT bounces back<\/h2>\n

The USWNT found its groove to win the W Gold Cup, at least sort of. After having to slosh their way through the semifinals against Canada in some alien form of tug-o-war, they did get to play an actual soccer game on Sunday in the final against Brazil, which they won, 1-0.<\/p>\n

Did they play free-flowing, artsy soccer? Well, no, not really, but as we said when they lost to Mexico, most of the team is still in NWSL preseason and is way short of sharpness. It\u2019s hardly a surprise that the players who looked best were Lindsey Horan or Korbin Albert, who are in the middle of their European seasons. <\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean there weren\u2019t some positives. The USWNT rocked out a 4-4-2 diamond formation in the final, which they hadn\u2019t really showed off before. Sam Coffey and Albert were wrecking balls in midfield, providing the kind of bite at the base that the team really hasn\u2019t had in some time. In fact, Coffey\u2019s instincts and mettle led to the only goal of the game:<\/p>\n