The Sun’s David Zurawik recently caught up with ex-Baltimore reporter Jen Royle, who still gets nasty tweets from Baltimore and is perplexed by the “Curse of Jen Royle” phenomenon. Zurawik’s post brings to light one particularly nasty exchange:
“Royle sent copies Wednesday of hate tweets from the past few months saying among other things that she was dying of AIDS. (For the record, she said that is false.) Royle’s Baltimore attorney managed to stop the AIDS tweets, she said. Furthermore, she added, that she has received a letter of apology through her attorney from an author of such tweets.”
That’s gotta be one hell of an apology letter. The interview comes on the heels of Jill Rosen’s Baltimore Insider post on baltimoresun.com which declared “Even from Boston, Jen Royle slams Baltimore.”
Look, does anyone actually believe in “curses” and do they truly think they have some effect on the AL East standings? Come on people, the whole “Jen Royle v. Baltimore” nonsense emanates from the the fact that the Orioles have been really awful and Jen Royle had the unenviable position of having to talk about them for a living.
Royle is in Boston, where she seems happier if not somewhat traumatized by her time in Baltimore. The Orioles are cruising toward the All-Star break as legitimate contenders, yet some fans still think it’s a good use of time antagonize and threaten a former reporter who they know will engage them.
Time for both parties to move on. Royle has a new gig writing a column for SBNation Boston, and never has to address Baltimore publicly again if she doesn’t want to. It may not be fair, but the onus to drop the inane flame wars rests on her, because frankly she’s a lot smarter than anyone publicly announcing that someone they’ve never met is dying of AIDs.
The Little Fella needs to grow up a little or he will stay 5’2″ for the rest of his life…
Actually I know the guy who said it. It was sent as a joke after Royle said a bunch of nasty crap about Baltimore and its residence. He was just shutting her up. The whole lawyer thing is ridiculous. She deserves everything negative that comes her way.
You still don’t joke about that stuff, she’s still bitter about her time in Baltimore. If she were happy, she would put Baltimore in the rear view mirror and move on, she won’t.
First of all, she’s lying or more like, not telling the whole story. Check out her TL, her language is pretty unacceptable for a PROFESSIONAL, no matter what the circumstances. She’s an instigator. She loves to push people’s buttons. This is an act of hers. She’s sending out the bait and Baltimore is responding. She knows when she smashes Baltimore, the Orioles, or something Maryland related, she’s going to get “hate” back.
I personally think she loves the attention, but can’t quite handle it. I think it’s one of those, wonder what people will say if I call the Orioles the worst team in baseball? Or if I say Baltimore is the most filthy city? I know many have told her to ignore it and she just can’t. So to say she’s a victim isn’t exactly right. When you’re a public figure, by choice, which a journalist is, you are going to encounter your share of criticism fair or unfair that has nothing to do with your work per se.
I don’t want to say she gets what she deserves because nobody deserves that. That being said she needs to learn to shut up. All she is doing is escalating matters when she continues to go at it with the “fans.”
I’m sure this isn’t the last time will hear from her because part of her schtick is always us juicy material.
Sounds a little like Anita Marks .. trying to climb that ladder anyway she can. Whatever happened to Anita??
Works for the NY Giants as a gameday reporter. Saw her last season, she spoke fondly of Baltimore FWIW.
I think she was trying to be the female Mike Preston,,,,,,,,,but there is only one a$$hole who writes in this town,,,,,,,,she found that out and moved on , leave her alone , she is gone………..
Hey Spy, why don’t you bang her one time so her last experience in B’more would be a good one?
Not sure she could handle me,,,,,,,,but I would like to try……….nothing like experienced sandbox play…….
She is completely full of shit. If she was a professional she would ignore those tweets, just like radio hosts ignore texts and bloggers ignore comments. She’s an immature bitch, she continues the cycle by trashing Baltimore every time she gets one of those comments. I don’t think she understands how the internet works. Anyone can say anything, and they will. I’ve seen nasty ass comments from Boston fans, doesn’t mean the entire city of Boston is an awful place with awful people. But that’s exactly the logic that Bitchy Royle uses, she’s essentially asking for a response.
Jen,
We still miss you in Baltimore…….