Reds Manager Bryan Price Apologizes After Profanity-Filled Rant

Price said his language was "wholly inappropriate" but that he wasn't backing away from his message.

Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price has apologized for using profanity during a pregame meeting with reporters, but says he stands by his message that media shouldn't report developments he feels would put his team at a competitive disadvantage.

Price had a profanity-filled monologue before a 6-1 win over the Brewers on Monday. The struggling Reds had just been swept in St. Louis.

Price used the "F" word or a variant 77 times and employed 11 uses of a term to describe feces, according to a tally by Cincinnati.com

Through the team's Twitter account on Tuesday, Price said his language was "wholly inappropriate" but that he wasn't backing away from his message.

Price was particularly upset over a Cincinnati Enquirer report that catcher Devin Mesoraco wasn't available to play during a game in St. Louis because of injury.

"I don't understand what the importance is for everybody to know if we have a player that's not here," Price said, according to a transcript 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."

The Reds confirmed on Monday that Mesoraco is in Cincinnati getting tested for a sore hip.

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