Nestor Cortes apologized and said he was “pissed” at himself for old tweets in which he used offensive language nearly a decade ago when he was in high school.
A Twitter user retweeted some old tweets on Sunday in which Cortes used the n-word (n—a) more than a dozen times.
When Cortes realized they had resurfaced following his start against the White Sox in Chicago, he said he was “shocked.”
“Those aren’t the messages I want to send out,” Cortes said before the Yankees faced the Orioles at Camden Yards on Monday. “I deleted my Twitter [account] to clean stuff up. Hopefully I can make a better impact in the world for the people that look up to me to give a better example.”
Asked if he remembered the tweets, Cortes acknowledged that he did.
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