Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price doesn’t need to apologize for his angry statements to reporters, because everything he said was 100% true.
The main job of a MLB manager is to give his club the best chance to win, and Bryan Price is correct that idiot reporters who tell the opposition about every crack in the team’s armor, are not looking out for the club – they just want the scoop that increases their own visibility.
Baseball managers need to adopt the tactics used in the NHL, where they don’t tell anyone deatils about an injury or a player who is not available. When someone is hurt in the NHL, the only explanation usually given is “upper body injury” or “lower body injury”, which doesn’t tell the opposition any detailed facts about the injuries.
Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price went on a profanity-filled rant during his pregame meeting with media Monday, taking exception with the way his team was being covered.
Price said the “F” word 77 times during a five-and-a-half minute rant.
Price was particularly upset with a writer from the Cincinnati Enquirer, who reported catcher Devin Mesoraco was not available for Sunday’s loss to St. Louis.
Price’s tirade came before the Reds beat the Milwaukee 6-1 Monday night to snap a four-game skid and improve to 6-7 this season. It lasted more than 5 minutes, 30 seconds.
“I don’t get it. It’s, you know, look, I don’t need you guys to be fans of the Reds, I just need to know if there’s something we want to keep here, it stays here. We don’t need to know that Tucker Barnhart’s in the f****** airport when we haven’t spoken to Kyle Skipworth. I think we owe that f******* kid the right to be called and told that he’s going to be sent down as opposed to reading that Tucker Barnhart is on his way from Louisville. I just… I don’t get it. I don’t get why it’s got to be this way. Has it always been this way where we just tell f****** everybody everything? So every f****** opponent we have has to know exactly what we have. Which f****** relievers are available, which guys are here and which guys aren’t here, when they can play, and what they can do. It’s nobody’s f****** business. It’s certainly not the opponent’s business. We have to deal with this f****** b*******,” according to a transcript posted on CBSSports.com.
“I like to talk — and I have spoken as candidly as I can with you people, if that’s not good enough, I won’t say a f****** thing. I’ll go, ‘yes sir, no sir.’ And I can do that. But f***, I’ve been as candid as I can f****** be about this team and our players, and we’ve got to deal with this s***, every f****** team that we f****** play has to know every f****** guy that’s here and what they can and can’t do? F*** me. It’s a f****** disgrace. I’m f****** sick of this s***. It’s f****** hard enough to f****** win here to have f****** every f****** opponent know exactly what the f*** we bring to the table every day. It’s f****** horse****. I don’t like it. It’s what I’m saying. To make it very clear, I don’t like the way that this s***’s going — at all. I don’t like it. I don’t think you guys need to know everything. And I certainly don’t think you need to see something and tweet it out there and make it a f****** world event. How the f*** do we benefit from them knowing we don’t have Devin Mesoraco? How do we benefit from that? They benefit from it. I just want to know how we benefit from these f****** people know we don’t have a player here. Can you answer that? How is that good for the Reds?”
Price was concerned about how media reports on the Reds were giving opponents an advantage.
“I don’t understand what the importance is for everybody to know if we have a player that’s not here,” Pricesaid, according to a transcript posted on Cincinnati.com. “We don’t benefit from the other teams knowing we don’t have a player. It does — you don’t have to be a Reds fan, but it doesn’t help us if our opponents know who is here and who isn’t. That’s what I want to know.”
Price apologized in a statement on Tuesday morning.
“In my pre-game conversation with reporters yesterday, I used wholly inappropriate language to describe the media coverage of our team. While I stand by the content of my message, I am sorry for the choice of words.”
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