Peter Gammons put his foot in his mouth when discussing Alex Rodriguez and his fight with Major League Baseball. Gammons was a guest on Mike Lupica’s radio show when he made a very bad analogy between Rodriguez and the Boston marathon bombers.
“He wants to blow up the world. … He’s like the marathon bombers,” Gammons said.
It comes less than 24 hours after Rodriguez stormed out of his grievance hearing and rushed down to WFAN to go on the air with Mike Francesa. Rodriguez was upset that Bud Selig wasn’t going to attend and testify.
“I lost my mind,” Rodriguez told Francesa. “I banged a table and kicked a briefcase and slammed out of the room, and just felt like this system … I knew it was restricted and I knew it wasn’t fair, but what we saw today, it was disgusting.”
He has apologized repeatedly on Twitter:
@craigcalcaterra It was a stupid, poorly worded comp of blowing up a process.Alex would never hurt a human . I hope I haven't hurt him
— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) November 21, 2013
@dianagram @SI_ExtraMustard Stupidly worded comp of blowing up a process. He is owed, and gets my apology for mispeaking
— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) November 21, 2013
@DSzymborski If I were Alex, I might not feel that way
— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) November 21, 2013
@awfulannouncing @EliIsELITE And there is awful announcing, mea culpa taking the concept of blowing up the process and mangling it.
— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) November 21, 2013
Listen to it below (via @EliIsElite/@WFANaudio):