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Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history & arts at SorryWatch.com since 2012. We wrote Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies (hardcover) & Getting to Sorry (new paperback!)
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September 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
this is...not how you apologize for lying
August 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We do not like them at all, Deborah. They are very sour. sorrywatch.com/i-value-my-i...
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June 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Sorry we're just seeing this now! I wonder if Becky could set aside the whole left-handed compliment thing (she's not wrong), and ask her boss to praise her discovery in another meeting.
March 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I WOULD BUY ALL THE BOOKS FROM BOOKER T (note to self: must visit minneapolis)
January 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Honestly, Tom Brady is the one who should apologize, if he really said what's on this screenshot from GQ Sports, sent to us by a reader. BE A ROLE MODEL, TOM. READ A BOOK. Audiobooks count! Graphic novels count! Short books count! You have children, sir! Model the behavior! /end
January 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Sanchez could have made clear he understood why people were angry: It LOOKED like he didn't care about the game; he seemed to feel he could kick back and picnic because the Jets were way ahead. (It's not over til it's over!) But this is small potatoes. (Fried potatoes. Go well with hot dogs.) 7/
January 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A pretty good apology. Uses the word "apologize" (rather than the pallid "regret"), names the thing he did (rather than "the incident"), offers explanation (queasy!) but not excuses, pledges not to repeat the offense. How could he have done better? 6/
January 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"...but someone offered [the hot dog], so I grabbed it and tried to be discreet about it, but obviously not discreet enough. So I shouldn’t have done that, and it won’t happen again.” 5/
January 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“I want to apologize for that,” Sanchez told the NYPost. “I wasn’t feeling very good & didn’t eat much before the game, so I was feeling a little queasy. Toward the end of the game, I probably should have eaten one of those bars or something..." 4/
January 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
In 2009, during a Jets rout of the Raiders (38-0), Sanchez noshed on that dog. People felt it was disrespectful to the game, that it was the kind of thing you do AFTER work, not during. 3/
January 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Yesterday former QB Tom Brady said during his commentating on the Packers/Eagles game, "I've never seen a guy reading a book. But I've seen a quarterback eating a hot dog." This sent the half of SorryWatch that is a Packers fan (sob) to the Internet! 2/
January 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM