Bryan Price apologizes for rant, stands by his flawed message

Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price on Tuesday apologized for his explosive rant, but he made it clear that he is only sorry for the language he used.

“In my pre-game conversation with reporters yesterday, I used wholly inappropriate language to describe the media coverage of our team,” Price said in a statement that the Reds tweeted. “While I stand by the content of my message, I am sorry for the choice of words.”

During the outburst, which included an unprecedented amount of F-bombs, Price unloaded on the media for sharing too much information publicly. That’s right, the first-year manager believes reporters who are covering the Reds are supposed to keep injury information to themselves in order to assist the team.

“I don’t think you guys need to know everything,” he said. “And I certainly don’t think you need to see something and tweet it out there and make it a f—ing 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—ing people know we don’t have a player here. Can you answer that? How is that good for the Reds?”

Price is clearly under the impression that beat writers work for the team, which is not the case for most of them. A reporter’s job is to gather as much information as possible and deliver it to the public, and that includes injury information. In no way are they obligated to somehow assist the Reds by withholding info.

Price already proved this year that he is easily irritated when he got upset about this slide from Jason Heyward, and we didn’t even think it was that bad. His rant against the media was just plain idiotic.