Who is Brian Giles?

December 31, 8:18 PMSan Diego Padres ExaminerJudson Green

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Will Brian Giles be smiling at the end?

Brian Giles is doing the sensible thing. He is listening to his advisers, and stepping back from the situation he finds himself in. Faced with former girlfriend Cheri Olvera’s accusation that he continually abused her during their relationship, Giles chose to not respond to Olvera’s allegations immediately. It’s what lawyers tell their clients all the time. Don’t talk.

A week after the story regarding Olvera’s allegations broke, Giles released a prepared statement. “I categorically deny each and every allegation of the complaint for palimony,” he said, according to a Dec. 23 report by Tom Krasovic in the San Diego Union-Tribune. “This is all about money.” Giles also added, “I categorically deny the allegation that I perpetuated a continuing course of domestic violence on the plaintiff.”

Those are clearly the words of Giles’s lawyer, James Scott, who said Olvera “is very nasty and very aggressive. Witnesses saw her hitting him and pulling his hair. We have documented evidence and a lot of nasty voice-mails.”

Most of us, were we to find ourselves in a similar situation, would take the same approach. It’s the optimal strategy. But such an approach leaves people with a lot of questions. Why did Giles take so long to deny the allegations? Why won’t he deny them in his words, rather than his agent's or lawyer’s? How can we trust him when we saw him pull Olvera's hair, hit her, and knock her to the ground in that video of the incident at that Arizona bar? The fans want to feel reassured that Giles is not a habitual woman-abuser. Prepared statements make us uncomfortable.

James Scott says they’re going to “show who Brian Giles is.” Good, because we’re anxious to find out.