Once the video of Larry Baer’s altercation with his wife, Pam, was posted online by TMZ last Friday, it was borderline impossible to watch and not immediately react, one way or another.



Some of those reactions included harsh criticisms of the Giants CEO and leading public face for a franchise that, up until recently, had a front office that was held mostly in high regard. Others reacted just as strongly in the opposite manner, defending Baer’s actions as both overblown and typical of arguments that happen throughout long marriages.



There were some who noted that, while the incident — in which Larry Baer tried to pry his cellphone from Pam Baer’s hands in a way that caused the latter to fall out of a chair, screaming loudly and desperately in a public plaza located in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley — was a “bad look,” we should wait to judge the severity of what happened until more facts became available. This was a...