John Rocker was one bad ass closer for the Braves. He was at first famous for that. Then he became famous for calling New York City a shit hole and never apologized.
What he did was actually worse than an apology. The Braves set it up for him to apologize publicly with Home Run Nigger Hank Aaron. He did. What does he do next? Insults some faggots and more niggers. Than he stuck with by his guns and said "What the hell, can't I speak the truth?" He even called out Jew Bud Selig.
For a story published in the January 2000 issue of Sports Illustrated, Rocker made a number of comments stemming from his experiences in New York City, and answered a question about whether he would ever play for the New York Yankees or the New York Mets. Rocker's response was accused of being racist, homophobic, and sexist:
“ I'd retire first. It's the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing... The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?[3] ”
During the interview, he made his feelings about the New York Mets and their fans known:
“ Nowhere else in the country do people spit at you, throw bottles at you, throw quarters at you, throw batteries at you and say, 'Hey, I did your mother last night — she's a whore.' I talked about what degenerates they were and they proved me right. ”
The interview was conducted while driving to a speaking engagement in Atlanta. The reporter wrote that during the interview session, Rocker spat on a Georgia 400 toll machine and mocked Asian women.
Although Rocker later apologized after speaking with Braves Hall of Famer Hank Aaron and former Atlanta mayor and congressman Andrew Young, he continued to make controversial remarks.[4] For his comments, he was suspended without pay for the remainder of spring training and the first 28 games of the 2000 season, which on appeal was reduced to 14 games (without a spring-training suspension).
During the debacle, on The Tonight Show, Jay Leno had guests take baseball bats and whack a Rocker dummy. Saturday Night Live lampooned the affair. Billy Crystal during his opening monologue in the October 20, 2001 broadcast of the Concert For New York, referred to the pre-9/11 days, as "it is not like the good old days when the only guy we hated was John Rocker".
In June 2006, Rocker defended the right of free speech of former teammate Ozzie Guillén, at the time the manager of the Chicago White Sox, for comments deemed homophobic (Guillén had referred to Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Jay Mariotti as a "fag"). Guillén, a native of Venezuela, claimed it was not a derogatory term and that, in Venezuela, the term only questions another man's courage rather than his sexual orientation.
"This is a free country. If he wants to use a lewd term, he should be able to use a lewd term", Rocker told the Chicago Tribune. "Can't you use a lewd term in America if you want"?[5] Referring to sensitivity training, he was quoted as saying: "It was a farce, a way for the scared little man, Bud Selig, to get people off his ass". He claimed that when he attended mandatory sensitivity training he would seldom remain longer than 15 minutes. He claimed he never paid the $500 fine that was levied against him.
