Name: Trevor Bauer Opens Up About His Allegations and Suspension From the MLB
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Trevor Bauer Opens Up About His Allegations and Suspension From the MLB' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Trevor Bauer Opens Up About His Allegations and Suspension From the MLB' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-17. Transcript available.

Trevor Bauer Opens Up About His Allegations and Suspension From the MLB

So everything was going so your so your career was going great. Yeah. And then
you had this you had the instance that happened with the allegations, right? Is
that the best way to say it? How do people? Yeah, I mean, there's allegations
against me, stuff I didn't do. But dick gets out in social media, the media
writes about it. And to be fair, like they were very serious allegations. Like
what was alleged was very, you know, should be investigated and should be taken
very seriously.
Just, you know, the way the system works, like those get those allegations get
made. There's an open investigation. You know, I'm advised not to say anything.
So it's only it's a very one sided discussion for a long period of time. Right.
And then that influences public perception over it. And then when the facts
start coming out, when the truth starts coming out, it's a much smaller. There's
a lot less buzz around it. And so the public perceptions already been
influenced in a certain way.
It must have been harrowing to go through. Yeah, it sucked. It sucked. It still
sucks. But
So, and it doesn't even sound like it was that. It sounds like there was just
you messaged with a woman online. You guys both agree to spend time together.
You spend time together. It's later revealed that she had the idea that she
wanted to.
She had a plan or a strategy to. Did it say like to take from you. I'm trying
to think what the strategy was.
There's, there's, yeah, texts about, you know, taking my money. Um, getting in.
Yeah. Stuff like that. Yeah. Next victim, star picture for the Dodgers. Um, and
what's so crazy is, Trevor, is I was like three months ago, I'm looking at some
stuff online. Am I okay talking with you about this? Yeah. Do you feel okay?
For sure. All right. Um, I'm looking at some stuff online. I see pictures of
the girl and I'm like, how do I know this girl? I had, she had connected with
me over.
I had, she had connected with me over social media at some point. Um, and we
met up, she came to a comedy show. And then she came afterwards. We went to my
hotel. We just sat in the lobby and chatted. Yeah. And, uh, she like knew some
friends. We had some mutual friends and stuff. And, um, but we just sat there
and chatted and then I got her an Uber.
home. Yeah. Um, thank goodness, I guess. Cause you know, but, but that it just
blew. I'm like, look at her. I'm like, how do I, but even that to me, cause I
know she, I felt like she wanted to stay over and spend time, you know, it just
blew my mind. I'm like, is this, is this like a thing? Like, was this person
like doing this kind of stuff regularly or was it just happenstance that, you
know, anyway, it just that, and that got me even more into your world kind of.
And, uh, and I really started to look back at what
What had gone on and, and man, it was just, I think a lot of people felt like
it was just a really raw deal. Yeah. I mean, I certainly feel that way. Um, I
can't change it obviously at this point, like it, it is what it is. Like the
situation happened. Um, I've had to,
I've had to do like two, like two main things. One I've had to like self-reflect.
Okay. How did I get into this situation where like something like this is even
possible? Yeah. And then two, I've had to look towards the future and try to
have something that I'm moving towards or something that I'm trying to
accomplish. Because if I don't, I would just get mired in this really negative
stuff. Um, and that's, you know, it's not good for,
It's not good for mental health. It's not good for productivity or the people
that I'm around or, you know, stuff like that. So I've done a lot of reflecting
and like looking at mistakes that I made. And, um, in a lot of that, like,
there's a lot of components to this whole situation. Like number one, like my
interactions with, uh, females, like in general, like I paid very little
attention to,
my personal life. Cause I was so focused on baseball. And then when I started
my businesses, it was baseball and business. And I just didn't pay attention to
anything else. So I would just like, I didn't think any of it. Someone would
hit me up on Instagram. I was like, Oh yeah.
Yeah. Let's go over. You can do whatever. I, I didn't think anything of it. And
I think it at the time it was like, well, I, I treat people well and I'm
respectful. And like, I don't, I'm not doing anything improper. And so like,
that's fine. Yeah. That's a way to live. I'm living the way you're supposed to
be living.
Yeah. And it never even crossed my mind that something like this could happen.
Um, but you know,
I was associating with people that were not, that didn't see the, yeah. People
were like hitting me up
on Instagram because they knew me somehow, but I didn't know them. Right. You
know, I would just meet up
with them. I knew very little about them. Um, that was dangerous in my position.
Part of like what we
discussed about the software update. Like I see myself as this guy that's like,
even with
everybody else, it's just, you know, and then I get into a position in life
where that's not
the case. And I become a target and I just didn't see like the signs of being a
target or whatever.
And so I didn't update my software early enough. And it's a bummer. Yeah. It's
a bummer
because you also, you want to be able to meet people on even terms. That's the
toughest thing
about sometimes having some popularity, I think, and something that's sometimes
kind
of like, I don't want to say sad because nobody's like, Hey, look, man, you get
to have a lot
of neat, do a lot of neat. Yeah. I don't ever want to come off like a victim.
Like it was
like I was treated this way or whatever. It's just like there are realities to
the certain
situations. Right. Definitely very, very positive, like being a professional
athlete and like having
that opportunity. Like there's so many positives to it. Um, I don't ever want
to come off like
I'm complaining. Yeah. But there are certain realities that go along with it
that you have
to be cognizant of. And, um, yeah, I just, I didn't update quick enough to be
cognizant
of them before it happened. I've updated now. Like I've changed a lot of things,
how I do
things in my personal life. Like I'm very careful of who I meet and how I meet
them. Um, you know,
I'm not having the same type of just casual sexual relationships and I'm not
agreeing to
do the same types of like sexual things. Um, I'm not like dating a bunch of
people. I've
like really locked down my personal life and gone back to the square one. Like
what do I
care about in a personal relationship? Okay. I want someone that's ABCD,
whatever. Okay.
Let me go try to find those things actively instead of just being okay with
anybody that's
approaching me just to have someone around in those blank moments where like,
Oh, I have two
hours at night and I have nothing to do. So like, I'll just have someone. I'll
meet up with somebody.
Exactly. Yeah. Oh dude. It's saying, look, I can relate. I'm not trying to take
your conversation
here, but just a young man can relate to that. Just the same type of thing. It's
like,
and even young women, it's like, it just becomes a habitual thing. Yeah. You
know,
people think there's, you know, but it's like, yeah, sometimes the reason why
maybe I haven't
landed exactly where I would like to be. Um, it's yeah, it's like, have I, if,
well, I just,
if I just kind of take whatever sh like shooting star passes through the sky,
as opposed to going
out and looking for like somebody that's the real fucking sunshine, you know,
it's like,
and not you, Mike Clevenger, but, uh, like a preferably female. Yeah. But, um,
but yeah,
I feel you, man. It's like, cause I can all day, cause people will just kind of
come and go all the
time and that's fine. You can do that. But if you really want to go out and you,
and like emulate
what you want into the world and then hopefully get that back, you know? Yeah.
I think long-term
wise, like it's just a much more healthy, uh, situation for me personally, um,
to be surrounded
by people that are interested in the same things that push me in a positive way
to get better,
to learn more, to achieve more or whatever that support me in moments. That's
one of the biggest
things is like getting through the last couple of years and even today, like it's
still struggle
today with, you know, there's still ongoing like ramifications of everything.
Um, but just
having the support group around you that like, you know, these people care
about you and not
the attributes that you like, not the bank account or the fame or the notoriety
or whatever,
the lifestyle. Yeah. Like when shit hit the fan, right. Was it like, did it
kind of,
was it totally a shock to you? It was, it was pretty bad. Yeah. Um, I went from
focusing
on my next start to then like this article came out and then I'm having all
these conversations
and then I'm not allowed at the field and I'm still going to pitch in two days,
but then
I'm not going to pitch in two days. And then I can't take the team flight back,
uh, cause I'm
not allowed to be with the team right now. And then I can't take a commercial
flight back
home because I'm S my name's everywhere. And it's such a big story that like,
it's going
to be a disaster at, you know, taking commercial flight to renting a car and
driving from DC,
like back across the United States in the middle of season, not knowing when I'm
going to rejoin
the, like it was a, who drove with you? Um, I drove with my agent, Rachel. Um,
yeah, she
was in DC and then we were there for two or three days and then drove back
across country.
Um, yeah, it was, it was, uh, it happened pretty quick. And then obviously like
you have the legal
stuff that plays out, you have, you know, investigation and, um, you know, I
was never,
never arrested for anything. I was never charged with anything.
Yeah. There was never any, that drug out for, uh, uh, drug out is the wrong
word. Cause like
the allegations are serious and they should have, you know, they looked into
them thoroughly and I
respect the hell out of the police for doing that. Like I think all allegations
like this should be
looked into with that amount of thorough, uh, thoroughness. Yeah. But it, it
lasted for
nine months before the decision was made that there was going to be no,
no charges, whatever the whole time I was like not able to be with a team.
There was no resolution.
There was no, I didn't know when any of those decisions were going to come out.
So I'm just in
this holding pattern. And then there was MLB suspended me. And then there was,
you know, we, um,
appealed the suspension and then that took another, I don't even remember how
long that took another
period of time. Um, things move slowly in the, you know, as they go through
courts and as they go
through, uh, arbitrations and stuff like that. So who was there, who was like
really there for you
while you like, yeah, um, parents have been, parents have been great. Um, uh,
Rachel, I've mentioned,
she was their business partner, Tosh. Uh, a lot of my, uh, employees that I
consider close friends,
Kevin, Eric, um, you know, we've hired more people along the way as well that
have been like there,
all the time. Um, yeah, friends. I mean, there's people that I just know that
for, you know, since
high school or whatever that like would check in with me coaches. Um, I don't
want to name names
because yeah, I don't know whatever, but a lot of coaches and that I've known
through baseball,
a lot of players, teammates, some good support. Yeah. Um, and I think it's
because people that I've
played with people that I've been in the clubhouse with people that I've known
personally looked at
their experience with who I am and what they know of me and like, what's being
said. And they just
like, nope, there's no way that there's no way that happened. And, um, yeah, so
I think, you know,
publicly it's been seen as like, I'm this, you know, there's reports that I,
you know, Dodgers
