The Houston Astros’ apologies on Thursday haven’t exactly gone over well.
Owner Jim Crane, players Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman, and new manager Dusty Baker all spoke to the media. Altuve and Bregman didn’t take questions. Crane did and was slammed everywhere for his answers.
So that led to lots and lots of jokes about the whole thing on Twitter, many of them using Dwight Schrute’s non-apology from The Office, from the two-part “Stress Relief” episodes in which he was asked to apologize for staging a fire to teach his co-workers a lesson about safety when there’s a blaze.
Here’s the clip:
And here a bunch of people using that clip in the context of what the Astros said on Thursday:
