Cincinnati Reds Manager Throws Epic Rant at Media, Drops 77 F-Bombs

By Cheri Cheng - 21 Apr '15 09:45AM

Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price let his temper get the better of him.

In an interview on Monday, Price lashed out at reporter C. Trent Rosecrans of the Cincinnati Enquirer as well as the media when he was asked about the whereabouts of Reds catcher Devin Mesoraco. Price's 5 1/2 minute long rant included a whopping total of 77 F-bombs.

According to several media reports, Price was upset with Rosecrans because he reported that Mesoraco and Tucker Barnhart were joining team, which meant that the Reds would be sending catcher Kyle Skipworth down to Triple-A. The Reds, however, have not informed Skipworth about the move yet.

Rosecrans also published news that Mesoraco was not currently with the team. Mesoraco is away from the team due to an injury and a separate personal issue and Price did not want his opponent to know that he did not have Mesoraco available off the bench.

Before the tirade, Price asks Rosecrans, "Can I ask you a question? I don't understand what the importance is for everybody to know if we have a player that's not here. 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.

When Rosecrans replied by asking Price why Mesoraco is not there as a pinch-hitter, Price lost his cool and then goes on this epic rant:

"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*******.

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?"

Rosecrans, on the other hand, kept his cool. As the conversation continued, Price just kept the F-bombs coming. For the entire conversation transcript, click here.

Listen to the rant here: