The More Things Change....

I wonder what, if any, role David Ross’s dancing partner will have now that Ross has been named the new manager of the Cubs.  Maybe Lindsay Arnold could take over as bench coach.  Just kidding.  Major-league baseball doesn’t have female bench coaches or female coaches of any kind.

Eight managers have been let go so far this offseason.  That will mean plenty of coaching changes, just not any that involve women.  Sorry, Clare.  My daughter would make a good hitting coach, trust me.  She’d also be interesting in the dugout, very old school, with a tendency to hard ass.  God forbid anyone pimped a homerun in her presence.  But those thirty MLB dugouts are safe.  No one remotely like my daughter will be sitting in them anytime soon.

There are a few female numbers-crunchers in MLB front offices, but not many and not at all comfortable given the recent behavior of Astros’ assistant general manager Brandon Taubman.  “Thank God we got [closer Roberto] Osuna!  I’m so f***ing glad we got Osuna!” Taubman shouted six or so times in the presence of three female reporters during the Astros’ post-game celebration following Jose Altuve’s walk-off homerun to win the ALCS.

 Strange that a club official would celebrate a pitcher who had allowed the Yankees to tie the game in the top of the ninth.  Maybe it had something to do with the fact that the Astros got media and fan grief in 2018 for acquiring Osuna, who’d already been hit with a 75-game suspension for violating MLB’s domestic violence rules.  Oh, and Taubman was shouting in the presence of a reporter who has often tweeted on the subject of domestic violence.  What a coincidence.

Nothing is going to change until and unless a woman or group thereof purchases a controlling interest in a MLB team.  Calling Oprah Winfrey.  Calling MacKenzie Bezos….