Woman Claiming to Be Escobar’s Wife Says He’s a “Monster”

As a blog covering the Milwaukee Brewers, we strive to be a resource for Brewers coverage and opinion beyond what you can find at the Journal-Sentinel or on Brewers.com. That includes our own opinions and speculation on things, the unique information we somehow attain (interviews, for example) and linking to other online sources for different takes and tidbits on the team we love.

Oftentimes, the information we’re dealing with is highly speculative. It’s hard to trust any information you find on the Web because most of it is impossible to verify. So, we simply point to the information and report it for what it is—a rumor. Sometimes we’re even lucky enough to break a story on this little blog before the big dogs get to it.

For example, we heard about the Ryan Braun contract extension talks well before that story reached the mainstream media and, more recently (and much less importantly), we heard that the sausage-assaulting Randall Simon would be trying out for the Crew before it was reported.

Other times, there is absolutely nothing to the rumors we link to. That’s simply the nature of what we do. I just wanted to get that disclaimer in before I post the link to the story that the blog headline above refers to.

Fans Deserve to Know the Truth Behind Milwaukee’s Alcides Escobar

A poster on Bleacher Report claiming to be Alcides Escobar’s wife says Escobar has abandoned her and his newborn baby girl, who was born in December.

The poster claims that Escobar was not there for the birth of the child and has told her that she is “fat and ugly” and that he has “found someone better.”

She goes on to allege continued emotional abuse from Escobar and the woman he’s now with, who is allegedly now pregnant with Escobar’s child. The poster claims Escobar is a “monster” and that “the little time he spent in the majors made his head swell to the max.” The post details the downfall of the couple’s relationship, beginning with the end of the ‘08 season.

This is obviously a particularly sensitive situation. If the post is true, it could have ominous implications for Escobar’s reputation in a state that holds family values very high.

We would probably have chose to not post it because it’s a little too tabloid (even for us), but if true, it also foreshadows trouble for Escobar’s career on the field, as the poster alleges that Escobar is very mentally unstable right now including getting kicked off his Venezuelan team, booted out of his family’s home and wrecking a car. 

Again, to be clear, we have no idea if the person who wrote the post is really who she says she is. And even if she is, we have no way of knowing what she is writing is true. If it is true and can be verified in some way, it will be incredibly disappointing.

If we hear that this post is not true (and we all hope we do), we’ll be happy to post that it’s false. And hopefully we have some much more pleasant news to report in the coming weeks…