Astros GM's Latest Comments About Brandon Taubman Prove the Organization Just Doesn't Get it

On the eve of the World Series, the Houston Astros organization was met with a tsunami of justifiably negative press thanks to a reprehensible comment from assistant general manager Brandon Taubman.

Taubman was reported to have yelled gleefully at a gathering of female reporters professing about just much he loved having closer Roberto Osuna, who was famously suspended 75 games as a member of the Blue Jays for violating the league's domestic violence policy, on the roster. Astros GM Jeff Lunhow came out to try and apply a Band-Aid to this open wound. While he did acknowledge Taubman was sorry, his apology left much to be desired.

“What we really don’t know is the intent behind the inappropriate comments he made," Lunhow said. "We may never know that because the person who said them and the people who heard them, at least up to this point, have different perspectives.”

How do they keep making this worse? It's unreal.

This is not the first time Taubman has been obnoxiously pro-Osuna, as an NPR report claims he had harassed one particular female reporter as far back as 2018.

This would have been a black eye on the Astros organization regardless, but Houston's brazen lack of the ability to read the temperature of the room and instead keep digging a hole for themselves should be studied in public relations curriculum as a textbook example of how NOT to manage a crisis.