Guerrero Jr.'s apology reflects standards that come with stardom

TORONTO — Three-and-a-half hours before game time Friday, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. stood before the media backdrop outside the Toronto Blue Jays clubhouse and tried to make amends. For roughly 12 minutes, as teammates glanced over on their way to or from the adjacent gym, he sounded a different note than he did Wednesday , when the tone-deaf comments he made to Veronica Batista of Noticias Telemicro about receiving his $500-million deal for what he’d already done first went viral, apologizing before a throng of media, explaining that it wasn’t what he’d meant to say, even if he didn’t clarify what he meant to get across, and vowing “to make my contract a great one.”