NYPost- The controversial and honest-to-a-fault Indians pitcher described why he’s still single in a feature by Sports Illustrated published Tuesday. When he meets a potential partner, he lays out his guidelines.
“I have three rules,” he said. “One: no feelings. As soon as I sense you’re developing feelings, I’m going to cut it off, because I’m not interested in a relationship and I’m emotionally unavailable. Two: no social media posts about me while we’re together, because private life stays private. Three: I sleep with other people. I’m going to continue to sleep with other people. If you’re not OK with that, we won’t sleep together, and that’s perfectly fine. We can just be perfectly polite platonic friends.” ------ Full disclosure, I think every last one of these rules is entirely acceptable for a 28 year old professional athlete to have, even if I find said professional athlete to be a loathsome prick. I don't know that I'd call them "dating rules" when they are really just typically unspoken justifications for him living the carefree, no-strings-attached life afforded to him by baseball in inserting himself into as much strange as humanly possible. However, at least the Indians' oft-problematic pitcher has the self awareness to know that his priorities match his emotional infancy. That's undoubtedly more than can be said for a lot of his peers who risk wrecking their home whenever the vices of life on the road come a calling. That being said, I'm not too sure that listing off the entirely undesirable ways in which you govern your private life to the readership of a well-known media outlet is the best way to convey that your "private life stays private". In fact, I might even say that publicly announcing that he's more self-satisfied by his conquests than the cinematic portrayal of the loose-lipped ladies' man in every high school locker room is even douchier than taking the all fuck, no feelings approach to "relationships" in the first place. I'm all for professional athletes sowing their wild oats and embracing the single life during the point in their careers in which it logistically makes the most sense to do so, but - holy shit - Trevor Bauer tried so hard to sound cool and unattainable that one might come to the conclusion that, on the contrary, he's not actually all that cool or unattainable. Who would have thought that to be the case given the otherwise charming reputation he's built for himself as a juvenile jackass?
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