Ex-Mariner Bret Boone Mocks Sex Assault In Note To Local Reporter

SEATTLE, WA - Former Mariners second baseman Bret Boone sent an unsolicited message to a Seattle reporter Wednesday mocking sexual harassment. In the messages, sent to Seattlepi.com reporter Stephen Cohen, Boone joked that he'd been sexually harassed by various women. Wednesday afternoon, Boone apologized for what he sent to Cohen.

"I got sexually harassed twice today," Boone wrote in one message. "[T]he Starbucks girl smiled at me and the woman at rite aid flirted with me. [I'm] getting a lawyer, unacceptable. lol."

"I'm wondering why you felt like it was a good idea to make light of sexual harassment in an unsolicited message to a reporter," Cohen responded.

"I have no clue who u are," Boone wrote back.

Even stranger, Cohen isn't specifically a sports reporter (he has covered football), and he hasn't written about sexual assault recently - unless you count the Navy airman who drew a penis in the sky over Washington.

Sexual assault was in the news Wednesday, as it has been for months, due to the firings of Garrison Keillor and Matt Lauer. Cohen made a reference to Keillor's firing on Twitter about one hour before Boone contacted him. Cohen later wrote a first-person account of his chat with Boone, guessing that the Keillor tweet probably incited the exchange.

In the end, Boone told Cohen he wouldn't be invited to join Boone's golfing foursome.

Around 4 p.m., Boone apologized in a Twitter message saying "[T]here are zero excuses for what I said earlier. None. It was 100% wrong. It was offensive. It was inappropriate. It was not remotely productive to any conversation regarding harassment. I apologize and it will never happen again."

Boone played for the Mariners from 1992-93 and from 2001-05. He is a two-time Silver Slugger award winner and a Golden Glove winner.

Cohen took a snapshot of the whole DM exchange:

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