In the 70s, the depth of the wilderness years of Tribe baseball, the old Stauffer on the Square had baseball packages, and my wife and I would do them once in a while on a Friday night.
After one game, we stopped at the bar, which was located in the lobby. Soon, one of our starting pitchers strolled thru with a tall blonde.
A few weeks later a bunch of my friends and I had seats behind third base....right in front of the area reserved for the wives of the players. As the game went on we all got acquainted, and I got to talk with the wife of that starting pitcher. She was not tall nor blonde.
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I had a friend from high school who became an Indians groupie. She became convinced that she would become Mrs Tribe Catcher. She was not happy when the title went to somebody else.
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Right or wrong, I don't view either of these situations as any kind of harrassment....nor do I view them as coming under the legal purview of team management.
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I unintentionally became involved for years in the enforcement of sexual harassment cases at my place of employment....and I've seen both sides. Thru my....uh....suggestions, one supervisor and one plant manager were terminated. On the other hand, several wrongly accused were not.
Consential is a fine line. In some cases the line is drawn after the fact. Or it is used as a weapon.
Callaway sounds like a crud. But, because of my experience, I have a hard time labeling Tribe management the same way.
A husband is irate because his wife is having an affair with another man. His problem is his wife, not the other man. And its not the problem of the other man's employer.
The husband is not trying to get his problem solved. He is trying to exact revenge.
After one game, we stopped at the bar, which was located in the lobby. Soon, one of our starting pitchers strolled thru with a tall blonde.
A few weeks later a bunch of my friends and I had seats behind third base....right in front of the area reserved for the wives of the players. As the game went on we all got acquainted, and I got to talk with the wife of that starting pitcher. She was not tall nor blonde.
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I had a friend from high school who became an Indians groupie. She became convinced that she would become Mrs Tribe Catcher. She was not happy when the title went to somebody else.
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Right or wrong, I don't view either of these situations as any kind of harrassment....nor do I view them as coming under the legal purview of team management.
**********
I unintentionally became involved for years in the enforcement of sexual harassment cases at my place of employment....and I've seen both sides. Thru my....uh....suggestions, one supervisor and one plant manager were terminated. On the other hand, several wrongly accused were not.
Consential is a fine line. In some cases the line is drawn after the fact. Or it is used as a weapon.
Callaway sounds like a crud. But, because of my experience, I have a hard time labeling Tribe management the same way.
A husband is irate because his wife is having an affair with another man. His problem is his wife, not the other man. And its not the problem of the other man's employer.
The husband is not trying to get his problem solved. He is trying to exact revenge.
