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BenFred: St. Louis native Crane needs to clean up Astros front office

When your team wins more than 100 games three seasons in a row and makes two of the last three World Series, that’s really saying something.

The Astros spent the week getting blasted for the disgraceful behavior of (now former) assistant general manager Brandon Taubman during the clubhouse celebration after Houston won the American League Championship Series.

It turned out Major League Baseball, like the general public, found the notion of an Astros front office employee targeting profanity-spiked jeers toward women reporters about his support of closer Robert Osuna, a player who had served a suspension for a violation of the league’s domestic violence policy, to to be disturbing enough to investigate.