Because the Orioles proceed their run to the best of the American League standings, a problem involving the crew’s majority-owned broadcast group has taken center stage.
Kevin Brown, the Mid-Atlantic Sports activities Community’s lead play-by-play announcer for Orioles video video games, was far from the membership’s television broadcasts a day after itemizing off statistics about Baltimore’s poor play in newest seasons, sources with info of the crew’s choices instructed The Baltimore Solar.
Brown hasn’t been featured on MASN broadcasts for the earlier two weeks.
The willpower has rankled many all through the baseball world, with a lot of notable broadcasters lambasting the Orioles, MASN and chairman John Angelos on social media and dwell television.
Right here’s a take a look at what broadcasters, analysts and totally different observers are saying in regards to the info:
SNY’s Gary Cohen
“Let me simply say one factor to Baltimore Orioles administration: You draped your self in humiliation while you fired Jon Miller, and also you’re doing it once more,” Cohen said all through the published for Monday’s New York Mets-Chicago Cubs sport. “And if you happen to don’t need Kevin Brown, there are 29 different groups who do. It’s a horrendous determination by the Orioles. I don’t know what they have been considering, however they’ve gotten precisely the response that they deserve, and it’s only a disgrace as a result of the Orioles are enjoying so effectively, and now they’ve diverted consideration from that and now made themselves a laughingstock.”
NESN’s Dave O’Brien
“That’s a fiasco that that’s allowed to occur,” O’Brien said all through Monday’s Boston Crimson Sox-Kansas Metropolis Royals broadcast. “And I feel each announcer within the league feels the identical means. Each broadcaster in your place [Red Sox analyst Kevin Youkilis] and in mine thought that was an absolute joke. … That’s a joke and I hope he’s reinstated instantly when somebody involves their senses within the entrance workplace for the Orioles.”
YES Community’s Michael Kay
“This makes the Orioles look so small and insignificant and minor league,” Kay said all through his radio current Monday. “And naturally they don’t touch upon personnel issues … however are you able to think about how that man [Brown] should really feel? He has to maintain his mouth shut. He can’t criticize the Orioles, as a result of then he’ll get fired. And naturally we sit up for Kevin coming again. However you embarrassed the man for no cause. And most significantly, you embarrassed your self. What you probably did is disgraceful to the enterprise. Disgraceful. Followers of groups needs to be fortunate when their announcers are allowed to be crucial, and that wasn’t even crucial. I consider that was complimentary of the Orioles.”
WFAN Radio’s John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman
“I’ve been on the air 63 years, so I’ve seen one million nutty issues occur on this nutty enterprise. That is proper up there with the nuttiest,” Sterling said all through Monday’s New York Yankees-Chicago White Sox broadcast.
“It’s superb to me,” analyst Suzyn Waldman, Sterling’s broadcast confederate, talked about. “How will you do your job if you happen to can’t inform the reality? However he didn’t even say something damaging. He was extolling how good they’re as a result of look what they’ve finished this yr, and previously they didn’t do it. I don’t perceive it. Once I noticed the clip, I used to be ready for him to say one thing horrible.”
“I’ve by no means heard of that in my life,” Sterling talked about. “If [John Angelos] was our boss, we’d get fired daily. We remark that the Yankees have horrible batting averages, and so they have horrible on-base percentages.”
Sirius XM’s Chris ‘Mad Canine’ Russo
“This fool [John] Angelos, who’s by no means gained a rattling factor,” Russo said all through his Monday radio current, “that is the man that will get [Brown] fired or will get him demoted or will get him silenced for a time frame as type of punishment. Are you kidding me?! That may be a shame. That’s so unhealthy, I don’t even know the best way to remark. Who would need to be a play-by-play man of the Orioles?”
Former radio host Mike Francesa
“Regardless of the standings, the Orioles confirmed themselves to be losers-and large losers at that- with their therapy of Kevin Brown,” Francesa tweeted. “Not solely ought to Baltimore reinstate him. They need to apologize profusely for his or her horrible error in judgement.”
NBC Sports activities Chicago’s Jason Benetti
“Kevin Brown is among the most gifted, considerate, curious, constructive individuals I’ve ever had the pleasure of assembly, working with and calling a good friend,” Benetti tweeted. “He’s actually among the best play-by-play announcers within the nation. If the Orioles don’t need him, one other staff’ll be elated.”
ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt
“That is quite simple. There are information and opinion,” Van Pelt tweeted. “Kevin recited information, and solely information. If he’s been suspended for that, it’s my opinion that it’s so small and ridiculous as to not be believed.”
Bally Sports activities West’s Wayne Randazzo
“That brings up a superb level,” Randazzo talked about all through Monday’s Los Angeles Angels-San Francisco Giants broadcast. “The [Angels haven’t] scored tonight and so they’ve misplaced six in a row. And typically, information are information and we’ve to take a seat right here and discuss them, whether or not they’re fairly or not. And in Baltimore definitely, they’ve had some totally different reactions to that type of factor. And we obtained a man sitting a couple of cubicles down, the Corridor of Famer, Jon Miller, who went by way of that there virtually 30 years in the past. Actually, our greatest needs exit to Kevin Brown of the Baltimore Orioles.”
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