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Former MLB jug John Rocker was back in the hot seat this week after he made derogatory remarks about Uber drivers in a critical post on social media.
Former Atlanta Braves Closer has made brash comments in the past, and he made someone else that will be close to the top of this list.
Rocker took to X to demand a “American Citizen Driver” option on the popular Ride-Share app.
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Atlanta Braves closer John Rocker throws in the 10th round of an MLB game. (Medianews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)
“There must be a” American Citizen Drive “selection option at Uber. I won’t be driven by anyone driving on a camel 12 months ago,” Rocker said in the disappointing.
It is hardly the first controversial comment that Rocker has made. In 1999 he was quoted as saying he would never play for New York Yankees or Mets because he did not want to “take the 7 train to the ballpark that looks like you’re driving through Beirut next to a child with purple hair, next to some Q — r with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mother with four children.”
Atlanta Braves John Rocker Taunts Fans during a media interview after Game 5 in the National League Championship Series vs. New York Mets in Flushing, New York, October 17, 1999. (Al Tielemans/Sports Illustrated)
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“The biggest thing I don’t like about New York is foreigners. You can go a whole block on Times Square and not hear any speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and all up there. How the hell did they get in this country?” he said. Rocker’s last professional baseball team was the independent Atlantic League’s Long Island Ducks. Rocker was suspended 28 matches in 2000 because of the comments published, among others.
Rocker also recently announced that the Super Bowl will be “colored” by Bad Bunny’s half -time performance, and called him a “transverse singer who hardly speaks English.”
Atlanta braves John Rocker during a game against the New York Mets at Shea Stadium. (VJ Lovero /Sports Illustrated Via Getty Images)
Playing for Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Devil Rays in her six-year career, Rocker Racket up 88 rescues, all except three of them from 1999 to 2001 and published a 3.42 ERA. His best season came in 1999 when he became dominant closer to the braves of their National League Pennant-winning season. He knocked out 104 fighters in 72.1 laps and threw himself to a 2.49 era.
