Astros Exec Brandon Taubman Shouting His Love for Roberto Osuna to Female Reporters is Messed Up

There's being tone deaf, and then there's being so unfathomably tone deaf that it almost unbelievable that someone in a position of power within the MLB could speak such nonsense.

Following the Houston Astros clinching their second World Series berth in the last three years thanks in no small part to the performance of closer Roberto Osuna out of the bullpen, assistant general manager Brandon Taubman reportedly screamed how he was "so [expletive]ing glad we got Osuna" in front of a crowd of female reporters.

Osuna, as you surely remember, was previosly suspended 75 games for violating the MLB's domestic violence policy.

It's one thing to privately celebrate the fact that Osuna, who put up a 2.63 ERA and saved an Al-best 38 games, helped shore up the team's weakest link and helped propel you to a title. It's another to go out of your way to profess your love for a guy who plenty think shouldn't even be in the league right now.

And to do it in front of female reporters? Outrageous.

In a separate baffling move, both Taubman and the Astros were unavailable for comment before Stephanie Apstein's Sports Illustrated story on the subject was published.

Taubman has to face some sort of discipline for this. If he somehow gets off scot free, it's nothing short of a massive miscarriage of justice. Baseball has to be better than this.