Brian Sabean contributed a collection of absolutely idiotic comments to an already tense situation.
The San Francisco Giants GM called Scott Cousins's play "malicous" and said: "If I never hear from Cousins again or he never plays another game in the big leagues, I think we'll all be happy." He continued on that: "He chose to be a hero, in my mind, and if that's his flash of fame, that's as good as it's going to get, pal."
This is the same man who accused the Rockies of cheating last year with their use of the humidor. No need to go into detail here, but it would have been pretty impressive for the Rockies to cheat, seeing as the umpire would have been complicit. Nevertheless, it is inexcusable for a management figure to have this utter lack of a filter. It's good for the Giants that he is so good at his job, otherwise these types of nasty, uncalled for and unfounded comments would not stand.
The first thing Scott Cousins did after that play was check on Buster Posey. He called Posey to apologize and was in tears. Common sense, which is clearly something Sabean sorely lacks, tells us that if he indeed acted with malicous intentions, he would be celebrating the results of the collision instead of trying to apologize.
Cousins is already getting death threats from overreacting fans. Sabean's role as an executive was to bring this situation into perspective and alleviate that type of violence. Instead he has thrown fuel on the fire.
Shame on him.
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