David Brosius admits making up Mike Trout HGH allegations

[Stamm]

2 minutes ago, RallyMo said:

@Stamm, congrats on all those Rangers, Aggies and Cowboys championships in the 2010s. Banners. Banners. . . everywhere. 

Hey, thanks man. At least the Mavs got a 'ship in 2011??? Gotta hang your hat on something, right?

[Taylor]

3 hours ago, Angelsfan1984 said:

He was hit with a libel defamation lawsuit for sure. 

Trout is a public figure, which means it would be impossible for him to win a libel suit against Twitter.

[Taylor]

41 minutes ago, Lou said:

There you go

You hated the idea of going to?

[Lou]

16 minutes ago, RallyMo said:

@Stamm, congrats on all those Rangers, Aggies and Cowboys championships in the 2010s. Banners. Banners. . . everywhere. 

 

[Stamm]

2 minutes ago, Lou said:

 

I wish we had fired Sumlin on the spot that night. The UCLA game was truly the beginning of the end for him.

[Jeremiah]

4 hours ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

Yahoo is a pretty close second as far as who looks the worst out of this incident. 

You just can’t do that. 

As @nate said, you can’t unring that bell. So does anything potentially come from this as far as repercussions for Yahoo or Brosius? Does it rise to the standard of libel? Also, has Yahoo just become a content mill like many other sites the used to do real news coverage? I don’t read Yahoo much.

[mmc]

 

[ettin]

5 hours ago, Stamm said:

They'll be ready to go in time. They have a Chris Stapleton concert there on March 14th I think? Hated the idea of a new stadium at first, and the renderings were so similar to Minute Maid...it made me sick! But now that the ballpark is starting to take shape, it's got it's own unique feel. Prerty pumped. The A/C will be a nice upgrade for sure.

Oh wow so if Chris Stapleton is playing, they must be open for business!

[rafibomb]

7 minutes ago, mymerlincat said:

 

This entire thing blew up because some bitch wanted attention and now we have even Trevor Bauer weighing in on the situation.

[Jeff Fletcher]

26 minutes ago, Jeremiah said:

As @nate said, you can’t unring that bell. So does anything potentially come from this as far as repercussions for Yahoo or Brosius? Does it rise to the standard of libel? Also, has Yahoo just become a content mill like many other sites the used to do real news coverage? I don’t read Yahoo much.

I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t answer the libel question. 
 

As for Yahoo, they produce a little bit of original content but mostly it’s just aggregating click-bait. 

[Lou]

12 minutes ago, ettin said:

Oh wow so if Chris Stapleton is playing, they must be open for business!

[ScottT]

Stamm?

What a shit show this week has been.

[nate]

 

What an unbelievable shit show, lol.

[T.G.]

[Pancake Bear]

4 hours ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t answer the libel question. 
 

As for Yahoo, they produce a little bit of original content but mostly it’s just aggregating click-bait. 

There’s a reason most of their quality writers have jumped ship.

[rafibomb]

 

that Daniel Roberts guy from Yahoo just deleted his tweets lmao

Edited January 18, 2020 by rafibomb

[Lou]

That means he never wrote it, right? 

[Jay]

Twitter is the new journalism.

 

 

[nate]

28 minutes ago, rafibomb said:

 

that Daniel Roberts guy from Yahoo just deleted his tweets lmao

Shows you how respected Mike Trout is, pretty big move for them to say this.

[JustATroutFan]

Stupid wannabe snitch caused Trout's reputation for making up stuff like this. And Bauer needs to stay out of this as well. If you don't know squat, don't try to make it worse.

[Lou]

2 minutes ago, JustATroutFan said:

Stupid wannabe snitch caused Trout's reputation for making up stuff like this. 

Huh?

[JustATroutFan]

Meant caused Trout's reputation to be ruined. That wannabe snitch needs to get stitches for that. 

[Lou]

His reputation is fine. 

[stormngt]

On 1/17/2020 at 11:06 AM, Taylor said:

Trout is a public figure, which means it would be near impossible for him to win a libel suit.

Fixed.

[stormngt]

Per the Libel issue

Being a public figure Trout must prove that the material:

1. Was written in actual malice or

2. Reckless disregard of the truth.

Trout would have a claim on the reckless disregard of the truth.  However Brossius defense was that he used it as an example and didn't mean to defame.

The biggest problem for a hypothetical suit would be claim of damages.  Brossius recanted and apologized. MLB defended him.  I am certain Trout hasnt lost any endorsement.