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Former Atlanta Braves closer John Rocker will be one of the new contestants that will compete for big money on CBS’s reality show Survivor: \u00a0San Juan del Sur \u2014\u00a0Blood vs. Water<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n Rocker and his girlfriend Julie McGee are two of the players announced by Entertainment Weekly earlier Wednesday.<\/p>\n Rocker pitched for the Atlanta Braves in the 1999 World Series against the Yankees. He is best known for his controversial comments regarding New York.<\/span><\/p>\n He \u00a0was asked in a\u00a0<\/span>Sports Illustrated\u00a0<\/em>article whether he would ever consider playing in New York and was quoted as saying, \u201cI\u2019d retire first. It\u2019s the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the 7 train to the ballpark looking like you\u2019re [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It\u2019s depressing\u2026 The biggest thing I don\u2019t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n According to Entertainment Weekly, Rocker is not worried that other contestants will hold his comments against him, “I see these folks that I\u2019m getting ready to play this game with as very similar to the 13 years of professional baseball that I played, and the teammates that I played with. Some of my biggest supporters after that\u00a0<\/span>SI\u00a0<\/em>debacle were my current and past teammates.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Survivor: San Juan Del Sur kicks off with a 90-minute \u00a0premiere on Thursday, Sept. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Atlanta Braves closer John Rocker will be one of the new contestants that will compete for big money on CBS’s reality show Survivor: \u00a0San Juan del Sur \u2014\u00a0Blood vs. Water. Rocker and his girlfriend Julie McGee are two of the players announced by Entertainment Weekly earlier Wednesday. Rocker pitched for the Atlanta Braves in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-8957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8959,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions\/8959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8957"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}