Trevor Bauer's Accuser Lindsey Hill Blames Bad Lighting for the Fact She Looks Perfectly Fine in the Video She Made While Lying in His Bed

It's often said that there are two sides to every story. Or it could be three. Your version, someone else's version, and the truth. For instance, there could be plenty of reasons to be belligerently drunk and combative at a Morgan Wallen concert. And it would be unfair for any of us to leap to assumptions and claim its evidence of poor character.

Which is why, when you're talking about a former Major League pitcher who lost his career after a woman accused him of domestic violence during a round of casual sex after he goes viral with a social media post that includes texts and a video that put her in the worst possible light:

... you choose your words carefully. You make as much use of indefinite qualifiers like "claims," "says," and "seems to" as is necessary to make it clear no one knows what really went on between these two but themselves. Again, "There are three sides to every story." 

And sometimes there are four. There's his side. Her side. The truth. And then there's the version she gives in an absolutely bananas interview in which she's asked about the text messages. These ones:

--Hill asking a friend "What should I steal?" and getting the answer "Take his money."

--Another says "I'm going to his house Wednesday. I already have my hooks in," followed by what looks like a screengrab of their conversation and "You know how I roll." 

--Then he claims that after the first time they ahem "met," her texts read, "Net worth is 51 mil." and "bitch, you better secure the bag." 

--He asks how she planned to do that. And answers with texts that read, "need daddy to choke me out," and "Being an absolute WHORE to try and get in on his 51 million."

Hill admits they're "horrifying to be read out loud to." Her explanation for all the texts are, I suppose, credible. She was joking. She's got a sarcastic sense of humor. She's dated a lot of Major Leaguers, and that's what she was going for with the "next victim" thing. I can promise you that I and virtually every one of my friends would be sent into exile if our text exchanges ever saw the light of day. Few people walking among us could ever stand up to that scrutiny. 

Where things get tough for Hill is her explanation about the video she made lying next to Bauer that he included in his viral post. The one where she looks like this:

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Asked why she shows no sign of bruising or cuts, like she showed later on in the photos that got Bauer suspended, her answer is, to put it politely, suspect:

“That video was taken with no lights on in the room, on Snapchat, it was taken and saved to the app. So a lot of differences between natural light and all that stuff.  … Any normal person can see that bruises will take time. That video was taken maybe four hours after everything happened. I said this straight in my deposition, if you zoom in, the scratches are all there. You can’t see if there’s a shadow on my face.” 

Yeah. About that. You don't have to be a forensic scientist to know how cuts and bruises work. You just have to be someone who has been cut or bruised, which is 100% of the human race. I've yet to see a boxing match or an MMA bout where the fighters took blows to the face and still walked out of the ring/octagon looking like they did when they walked in. Regardless of the lighting. 

And while none of us are in a position to speak to the post-trauma behavior of a victim, if you showed a thousand people that video Hill made in bed of her smirking, cutting away to Bauer snoozing in his sleep mask, then making kissy face into the camera and gave them two choices: 

A) "Immediate Aftermath of Violent Sexual Assault" or 

B) "The Glow of a Satisfying Casual Sportfuck Between Two Consenting Adults:

… how many would choose the first option? And if your answer is "More Than Zero," please show your math. 

While we all love certainty, clear evidence, and indisputable truth, life is not an episode of NCIS where everything wraps up neatly in the last 10 minutes thanks to some fiber sample or DNA. So much of our reality comes down to a He Said/She Said. And while your opinion may vary, at this point in this particular case, it seems like "He Said" is way ahead in the polling.