After the Royals beat the O’s 2-1 and took a 3-0 lead in the ALCS, Royals (and former O’s) pitcher Jeremy Guthrie, who started the game for KC, took to the podium with a shirt that sent O’s Twitter ablaze.
The shirt read “These O’s ain’t Royal,” a play on words from (quite sexist) song lyrics that goes “these hoes ain’t loyal.” Many O’s fans were more than a little incensed, as we saw a guy who we cheered for through many awful seasons and who was always a fan favorite in Baltimore seemingly rubbing salt in our wound. I wasn’t particularly up in arms, but I understand why fans were upset.
Even Josh Charles got in on the response:
Congrats @TheRealJGuts for showing a true lack of class wearing that shirt post game.You're like the Ron Burgundy of pitchers but not funny.
— Josh Charles (@MrJoshCharles) October 15, 2014
Guthrie offered an apology:
My intention was not to anger O's fans or friends w/my shirt 2night.I apologize to those offended.Did not consider this reaction.Go Royals.
— Jeremy Guthrie (@TheRealJGuts) October 15, 2014
Cool.
Could you apologize for inexplicably holding our supposedly potent offense to one run on three hits?
/kicks stuff