But he didn't shut up then, but instead had diarrhea of the mouth. Rocker might have gotten away with beaning those first three with his words, but you don't ever fire away at the Big Apple in a national magazine like Sports Illustrated. It's a New York thing. Talk about Boise, Idaho, and nobody cares. Personally, I think there are bigger fish to fry than John Rocker.
Sports has way too many wife-beaters and cokeheads and even murderers.
Rocker is none of these. But neither should he be ordained as poster boy for the First Amendment. He's a moron. And morons don't deserve standing ovations. But a crowd of almost 35,000 rose to its feet and showered this moron with love when he returned from the suspension baseball imposed on him for running off at the mouth.