Reds Manager Bryan Price's Tirade Audio, Transcript And 4 Of The Worst Manager Tantrums In Baseball History

Think you had a rough Monday? Just be glad you aren’t Bryan Price. The Cincinnati Reds manager dropped the f-word no less than 77 times during a profanity-laced tirade against C. Trent Rosecrans, the team’s beat reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Price was reportedly enraged that Rosecrans accurately pointed out Reds catcher Devin Mesoraco did not accompany his teammates to their divisional matchup Sunday against the St. Louis Cardinals. Price also took umbrage at a separate report Reds minor league catcher Tucker Barnhart had traveled to join the big-league club before the Reds manager had a chance to tell fellow catcher Kyle Skipworth that Barnhart would take his place on the roster.

The Reds manager waited until television crews had left the area before unloading on Rosecrans and the rest of the reporters in the room. Mostly, Price was upset at the media for breaking news that could allow other teams to gain an advantage over the Reds. Or maybe he was just upset his Reds, a playoff team last season, are off to a lukewarm 6-7 start. In any event, what followed was one of the wildest locker room meltdowns in recent baseball history.

Here’s a hyphen-laden transcript of some of Price’s comments, courtesy of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Audio from his tirade can be found here, courtesy of Deadspin. Scroll below for examples of some other recent locker room meltdowns.

I don't get it. It's, you know, look, I don't need you guys to be fans of the Reds. I just need to know if there's something we want to keep here, it stays here. We don't need to know that Tucker Barnhart's in the f------ airport when we haven't spoken to Kyle Skipworth. I think we owe that f------ kid the right to be called and told that he's going to be sent down as opposed to reading that Tucker Barnhart is on his way from Louisville. I just, I don't get it. I don't get why it's got to be this way. Has it always been this way where we just tell f------ everybody everything? So every f------ opponent we have has to know exactly what we have -- which f------ relievers are available, which guys are here and which guys aren't here, when they can play, and what they can do. It's nobody's f------ business. It's certainly not the opponent's business. We have to deal with this f------ b-------.

I like to talk -- and I have spoken as candidly as I can with you people, if that's not good enough, I won't say a f------ thing. I'll go, 'Yes sir, no sir.' And I can do that. But f---, I've been as candid as I can f------ be about this team and our players, and we've got to deal with this s---, every f------ team that we f------ play has to know every f------ guy that's here and what they can and can't do? F--- me. It's a f------ disgrace. I'm f------ sick of this s---. It's f------ hard enough to f------ win here to have f------ every f------ opponent know exactly what the f--- we bring to the table every day. It's f------ horse----. I don't like it. It's what I'm saying. To make it very clear, I don't like the way that this s---'s going -- at all. I don't like it. I don't think you guys need to know everything. And I certainly don't think you need to see something and tweet it out there and make it a f------ world event. How the f--- do we benefit from them knowing we don't have Devin Mesoraco? How do we benefit from that? They benefit from it. I just want to know how we benefit from these f------ people know we don't have a player here. Can you answer that? How is that good for the Reds?

Phil Wellman Goes To War

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Hal McRae's Phone Toss

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Lloyd McClendon Steals First Base

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Ozzie Guillen Takes On Chicago

Ozzie Guillen was never one to mince words during his tenure as Chicago White Sox manager, but his 2008 rant against the local fans and media was particularly memorable. Guillen was furious with how his team was treated during a rough stretch early in the 2008 season and he let the public know it.