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Tuesday’s Rays-Orioles game to feature first all-female broadcast crew
Tampa Bay Times ^ | July 15, 2021 | Marc Topkin

Posted on 07/15/2021 7:03:40 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

ST. PETERSBURG — What otherwise might seem a mundane Tuesday night Rays game at Tropicana Field against the last-place Orioles will be historic before the first pitch is thrown.

That’s because it will be the first major-league game called by an all-female broadcast team, per Major League Baseball and YouTube, which will show the game exclusively.

(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; broadcasters; women
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To: ConservativeStatement

That sounds very stylish.


41 posted on 07/15/2021 8:44:47 PM PDT by CASchack
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To: ConservativeStatement

Has anyone ever gotten to third base with any of these girls calling it?


42 posted on 07/15/2021 8:54:26 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect?? It was NYC.)
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To: Bigg Red

The BS equality crap. We’ve had female sports anchor in KC for years and I have never been able to watch her. It was so embarrassing when she’s on the field after we won the World Series a few years ago and the Super Bowl.


43 posted on 07/15/2021 9:27:39 PM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

You know this means there wii be no stories about Nellie Fox and his chewing tobacco.


44 posted on 07/16/2021 12:47:35 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: ConservativeStatement

You know this means there wii be no stories about Nellie Fox and his chewing tobacco.


45 posted on 07/16/2021 12:47:36 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Soy.


46 posted on 07/16/2021 12:50:10 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: BipolarBob

Make sure you do them in that order.


47 posted on 07/16/2021 1:15:55 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: bray

They are called innings? I thought they were periods. Or as my blonde date asked at halftime: How many halves are there?


48 posted on 07/16/2021 1:19:45 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Melanie Newman, a member of the Orioles’ broadcast crew, will handle play-by-play duties, her second national YouTube game appearance. Sarah Langs, an mlb.com reporter who specializes in analytics and advanced stats, will be the analyst. Alanna Rizzo, an MLB Network host who previously worked on the Dodgers broadcasts, will be the in-game reporter. In addition, Heidi Watney and Lauren Gardner of MLB Network will be the co-hosts of the MLB Game of the Week Live on YouTube’s pregame and postgame shows.

Thank God it's not Beth Mowins. At least if your s/o complains about you watching baseball you can tell her you're doing your part for women's rights.

Why else would you want to watch MLB's poorest-attended team vs. the team with the AL's worst record?

Kinda reminds me of when NBC tried an announcer-less game. It was actually a ratings stunt because the game was scheduled for a Saturday late in the season and the two participants were already out of playoff contention. They took a game nobody really wanted to watch and turned it into Must-See TV simply by muting Bob Costas.

49 posted on 07/16/2021 1:22:02 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: Obadiah

They’d probably get lost if they did.


50 posted on 07/16/2021 1:23:45 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: bunkerhill7

No, but four balls will get you to first base.


51 posted on 07/16/2021 1:25:41 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Another sporting event I look forward to never watching again. If I want to see a bunch of spoiled ball chasers bash say how much theynhate me I would just watch CNN.

I don’t do that either.


52 posted on 07/16/2021 2:02:14 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: OrangeHoof

It took me awhile to get used to Beth Mowins when she did play-by-play for the Gonzaga men’s basketball games on ESPN.
In my opinion she’s just as good as the guys—she sticks to the game, no personal stuff (she knows what her mostly male audience wants to hear), her enthusiasm is genuine (she really likes being there) and her knowledge and preparedness amazes me. You can tell she studies the teams and does her homework.
She obviously has her dream job and as long as she does it well, why not?


53 posted on 07/16/2021 3:52:23 AM PDT by ZagFan
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To: MinorityRepublican

I gave up MLB baseball last year, didn’t watch a game. However, the Reds are a very exciting team this year and I can’t help myself. I have watched a few games. The thing is, I now can’t stomach the sports jocks mindless drivel. I turn down the volume. There’s a game day function on MLB team’s websites. It’s a live, text only feed of the game. Balls and strikes, action on the field etc. with no irrelevant, time filling gum flapping. I prefer this to listening to the broadcast. Plus, last year they fired my favorite sports talking head for giving us all the heads up about the homos in KC.


54 posted on 07/16/2021 4:08:21 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: ConservativeStatement

What would Chuck Thompson say?
Maybe, “how ‘bout that”.


55 posted on 07/16/2021 4:14:10 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Stylish.


56 posted on 07/16/2021 4:21:04 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (While the foundations are being destroyed, what are the righteous doing?)
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To: peggybac

Some things should be just for the boys and other things just for the girls. Men have had so much taken from them in that regard.

It’s not that men are better than women or that women are better than men. We are just different.


57 posted on 07/16/2021 5:43:05 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Bigg Red

Agree.


58 posted on 07/16/2021 5:54:00 AM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: dfwgator
Liberals ruin everything.

They really do. They have destroyed spectator sports. I used to be a big baseball and football fan before the stupid liberals ruined it.

Who wants to listen to a bunch of women commenting a baseball game? I sure don’t.

59 posted on 07/16/2021 6:00:05 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: ConservativeStatement

If they’re good I couldn’t care less. However, I do hate hearing female sports announcers that sound, ahem, like butch lesbians. Hard to explain, but you’ll know it when you hear it. Very masculine sounding voice and delivery.


60 posted on 07/16/2021 7:47:36 AM PDT by Kharis13
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