Host: ‘What I’ve gotten, I deserve’

Sports Hub radio host Michael Felger offered an onair apology yesterday for the “low-class” comments he made while criticizing Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Roy Halladay, who died Tuesday when the small plane he was piloting crashed in the Gulf of Mexico.

“I feel bad about what happened on a lot of levels. I feel bad about what I said and how I conducted myself. To say it was over-the-top and insensitive is really stating the obvious,” Felger said. “The presentation and the tone, and the hyperbole, was just low-class ... I’m not asking for any sympathy or break or anything. What I’ve gotten, I deserve.”

Felger also said he didn’t want to say he apologized “if I offended anyone” because that would be “fake and hollow.”

Attempts to reach station management yesterday were unsuccessful.

On air Wednesday, Felger said of Halladay’s death, “I looked at that guy and said, ‘That ain’t no tragedy.’ It just sort of angers me. You care that little about your life? Your little joyride is that important to you, that you’re going to risk just dying? ... ‘Whee! Whee! Yeah, man, look at the G-force on this! I’m Maverick. Pew, Pew! Yeah, man, look at this; this is so cool!’ And you die. Splat, and it’s over.”

Felger also called Halladay a “moron” and a “jackass.” Halladay, 40, was killed when his A5 aircraft crashed. He was reportedly performing stunts before the crash.

Halladay, who tossed a perfect game and a no-hitter for the Philadelphia Phillies, went on to win a Cy Young Award both in the American and National Leagues.

During an appearance on Herald Radio yesterday, WEEI sports host Kirk Minihane said on-air apologies are difficult and meant to “placate advertisers.”

Minihane apologized in 2014 for calling sports personality Erin Andrews a “gutless (expletive).”

“You get going, you sort of lose reality,” Minihane said. “You start amping up. And amping up. And amping up. And there’s the line — and you just fly over it.”