May 01--Unemployed Chicago radio personality Bruce Wolf is getting criticized Saturday for an insensitive tweet he posted after Friday's White Sox-Orioles game.
Friday's game was the one-year anniversary of the Orioles-Sox game in an empty Camden Yards due to safety concerns after riots over the death of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore man who died from injuries suffered while in police custody. The death was ruled a homicide.
Wolf, who describes himself as a "Chicago TV-radio legend," tweeted: "Sox in their Freddie Gray uniforms in Baltimore tonight."
A long-time sportscaster and general news radio show host, Wolf was let go from WLS-AM 890 early last year.
Chicago media columnist Robert Feder tweeted Saturday: "If @BruceWolfChi weren't already unemployed, he would be now."
"Not at all surprising that Bruce Wolf is still an idiot," Chicago performer and artist Tony Fitzpatrick also tweeted.
Saturday afternoon, Wolf told the Tribune that he apologizes for the tweet. "I didn't want to hurt anyone, but I have," he said. "My comedy, if that's what you want to call it, is in the Jackie Mason and Don Rickles tradition, though I'm not as good as they are.
"I'm kind of an equal opportunity offender. I've been doing this for decades and didn't intend for this to be more than what I've always done. But I did hurt people, and so I'm sorry."
Late Saturday afternoon, a White Sox spokesman, via email, said: "Mr. Wolf has no relationship with the Chicago White Sox in any way, so he would need to respond for himself concerning his lack of sensitivity and poor taste."
