Posted on 08/08/2023 12:11:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Announcers across baseball and beyond were seeing red over reports that the Baltimore Orioles had pulled play-by-play man Kevin Brown from the air over a mundane comment about the team’s recent success in Tampa.
The offending comment was about the fact the Orioles had won more games at Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays, this season than they had in the previous three seasons combined. Brown’s remarks were backed up by team game notes that were put together by the Orioles’ media relations staff.
Still, it was reportedly enough to ruffle the feathers of ownership, according to Awful Announcing and later confirmed by The Athletic, that he hadn’t called a game on TV or radio since a radio stint during Baltimore’s series against the Philadelphia Phillies, which ended on July 26. “If you’re going to be so thin-skinned to suspend Kevin Brown, then you have to suspend the entire Orioles (broadcast) truck,” Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay said during his radio show on Monday, noting that Brown’s comments had also been on a graphic on the screen.
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Go to war, Miss Agnes!
No.
No.
Not even close. He’s some punk who ought to ping your gaydar.
Thanks.
Angelos or spawn still own this team?
If so, too bad. He and that idiot who just lost the Redskins ruined my childhood idols.
King Tuck served up some humble pie and/or crow in the top of the 9th.
“That’s what I thought too. It sounds like a compliment to an Orioles team which is having a great season.”
DITTO
Is/are the owner/owners senile?
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