Chill out, what ya yelling for? That’s the question that the embarrassed Tampa Bay Rays fans who should have thrown back at Avril Lavigne after the wanna be punk rawker dropped some f-bombs at a Rays game on Saturday night after her microphone failed to work during a performance at Tropicana Field.
Instead the red-faced Rays just apologized directly to their fans in a statement on Sunday.
Per USA Today:
“The Rays demand profanity-free performances from all of our concert performers and we are extremely disappointed by the language used in last night’s show,” Rays spokesman Rick Vaughn said in a statement Sunday. “It is not consistent with the family-friendly atmosphere that Tropicana Field is known for.”
So what was Lavigne yelling for? Was it because she still has a soft spot for her Blue Jays, and the Rays lead them in the current AL East standings? Was she suffering from withdrawal from her normal mall habitat of Hot Topics and Mr. Pretzel? Good guesses, but no.
In reality, her salty language was reportedly aimed at the fans who booed the technical difficulties – reportedly, a dead microphone – that occurred during the her first song when she said the sound problem “f–king happens on a baseball field.” Between her swear words, Lavigne reportedly noted that live shows, especially those at a “baseball stadium,” have a tendency to feature a few glitches. After getting a working microphone, Lavigne apologized to the crowd, but The Rays were apparently not pleased.
The words she said probably weren’t any worse than the kids can hear from the ballplayers on the field, but she could have dropped a quick “earmuffs!” before her tirade.
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The people shouldn’t have booed her. She does what she wants when she wants. I love her and I really don’t care that this happened. She obviously didn’t do it intentionally she got caught up in the moment.