By Rick Stroud, Times Staff Writer
Sunday, May 29, 2011
ST. PETERSBURG — Pop singer Avril Lavigne might not be asked to do another postgame concert series for the Rays — at least unless she promises to clean up her language.
After experiencing a dead microphone to begin her performance Saturday night, Lavigne reacted to a chorus of boos by peppering the crowd with an expletive, multiple times, reminding her audience technical glitches happen during a live concert "at a baseball stadium."
After the concert, Rays public address announcer Rusty Kath apologized to the Tropicana Field crowd of 24,717 — many of them families with children — that remained for the show for the foul language.
"That's not what the Tampa Bay Rays are about,'' Kath said.