Royals Pitcher Jeremy Guthrie Apologizes for Post-Game Shirt

Jeremy Guthrie is apologizing for wearing a funny shirt after Game 3 of the ALCS Tuesday night.

After throwing five strong innings in the Royals’ 2-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles, the 35-year-old Royals pitcher put on a t-shirt stamped with the phrase, “These O’s Ain’t Royal.”

The words are a play on the hook from Chris Brown’s 2014 song “Loyal,” and for some reason, they appear to have offended a number of Orioles fans.

Ah yes, those arrogant Royals fans and their annual bacchanalia of postseason egotism. Every 29 years they’re out here rubbing our noses in their hot, gooey October success. Guthrie is the baddest of the "#badmormons."

For reasons we may never understand, Guthrie still apologized for the shirt on Twitter, saying he never meant to offend anyone. 

Of course, not all fans found Guthrie's shirt “#classless.”

Baseball—a sport that suffers at times from mothballed stodginess—needs to to learn to embrace a bit of gamesmanship. A player wore a funny, innocuous shirt that he likely had no hand in creating. If there's anyone to be apologized to here it's Chris Brown, whose lyrics have been improved and outdone by a baseball franchise.

Nonetheless, Guthrie apologized. Because that’s what “classless” guys do: backtrack on small issues to humor a tiny subsection of the other team’s fans. 

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