{"id":2400625,"date":"2026-05-03T22:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2400625"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:38:28","slug":"royals-offer-hilarious-endorsement-for-foul-mouthed-closers-postgame-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-offer-hilarious-endorsement-for-foul-mouthed-closers-postgame-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals offer hilarious endorsement for foul-mouthed closer&#8217;s postgame interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"hidden\"\/><!-- Arbitrary hidden heading for SumoMe to hook into --><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s surprising athletes that are jacked up after an exciting win don\u2019t curse\u00a0<em>more often<\/em> during postgame interviews. But it\u2019s always funny when they do.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s not usually very funny is the about-face most networks decide to put on after the fact, acting like a little uncensored foul language is going to corrupt every impressionable youth that happened to spend 10 seconds paying attention to a postgame interview instead of whatever tablet game they had their head buried in. But the Kansas City Royals decided to throw out the playbook this weekend after closer Lucas Erceg tossed an f-bomb\u00a0<em>and<\/em> an s-bomb into one sentence following his save against the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Last time they ever let him on the postgame man I\u2019m dying <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uU5MHbeI8O\">pic.twitter.com\/uU5MHbeI8O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 QT Patch (@WITT_SZN7) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WITT_SZN7\/status\/2050803458744131890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSorry if I\u2019m stuttering. My adrenaline is through the freaking roof right now and I f*cking love this sh*t,\u201d Erceg said after securing the win.<\/p>\n<p>The horrors!<\/p>\n<p>Instead of offering up a boilerplate apology, however, the Royals decided to double down on Erceg\u2019s excitement in a statement released on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ckIDiyKDw9\">pic.twitter.com\/ckIDiyKDw9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Royals.TV (@kcroyalstv) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kcroyalstv\/status\/2050978409124380678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re aware of the use of colorful language at the end of last night\u2019s broadcast. We wanted to take this opportunity to assure fans, he kinda said it best \u2026 no notes,\u201d the Royals posted on their Royals.TV X account.<\/p>\n<p>It might be time to start rating Royals telecasts PG-13 folks.<\/p>\n<p>Truly, it is shocking this sort of thing doesn\u2019t happen more often. Broadcasts do a good job of dumping audio when there\u2019s an audible f-bomb coming through the mic, and players also generally do a good job of censoring themselves for a television audience.<\/p>\n<p>Still, we\u2019re probably at a point in society where we can laugh when the occasional curse word slips through the cracks, rather than expect some faux outrage from the networks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source awfulannouncing.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s surprising athletes that are jacked up after an exciting win don\u2019t curse\u00a0more often during postgame interviews. But it\u2019s always funny when they do. What\u2019s not usually very funny is the about-face most networks decide to put on after the fact, acting like a little uncensored foul language is going to corrupt every impressionable youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2400626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[43627,311283],"class_list":["post-2400625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-lucas-erceg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Royals-offer-hilarious-endorsement-for-foul-mouthed-closers-postgame-interview.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400627,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400625\/revisions\/2400627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2400626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}