Frustration around the Reds is high early in the season and manager Bryan Price let off some steam on Monday.
As is the case with many managers/head coaches, Price would prefer to keep some items close to the vest, for understandable reasons. Information that reaches the media is, of course, accessible to opposing teams, which Price would like to limit when at all possible depending on its nature.
Prior to Monday’s game against the Brewers, Price met with the media at which time he addressed a report by the Cincinnati Enquirer regarding catcher Devin Mesoraco not being with the team for Sunday’s game. The result was a profanity laced tirade of epic proportions.
Here is an excerpt from the media session, courtesy of the Enquirer.
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?
The rant, in its entirety, is quite lengthy, but worth reading if you want to see the transcript of a Major League Baseball manager temporarily losing his mind.
There’s no rule that says players and coaches have to be friendly with the media. Some are, some aren’t. However, the media has a job to do that, in some cases, can cause friction between the reporter and related person(s). That said, Price didn’t just cross the line, he obliterated it on Monday.
