Thom Brennaman, welcome to the unemployment line

That would not be a hoot!

 

Oh my goodness gracious, indeed ...

 

Or the lawyers are really going over the contract.

 

I miss Bob Murphy on the Mets radio. Back when the Mets first had games on cable, our area wouldn’t carry their games, so I couldn't see them. Murphy was the voice I listened to for many summer nights.

 

Bob Murphy and Gary Cohen on WFAN.

My man.

 

It really speaks incredibly poorly of the organization and its view of the fans if he ever works another day for the Reds.

 

If they haven't fired him by now, it seems unlikely they will.

Instead, some sort of further disciplinary action will be announced. Two weeks without pay or something. And a promise of endless corporate love and understanding for every member of the Reds fans and . . . sniff . . . family.

So expect yet another public apology as he enters sensitivity training - then promises to really listen to the voices of his local LGBTTQQIAAP community.

 

Maybe it's an urban legend, but I could have sworn he once screwed up and called the company Manufacturer's Hangover.

WTCG, I believe. Channel 17.

Shortly before it changed to WTBS, Turner decided it'd be cool if players had nicknames on the back of their uniforms. Cool, of course, because he had already decided what "nickname" to use for Andy Messersmith.



Bowie Kuhn slapped that down in a hurry.

 

Perhaps this is the best outcome. A man keeps his job and learns a valuable lesson.

I do not like it when people lose their careers over a mistake that can be corrected. I am compassionate! And you are compassionate, as well. I can tell by the length of your acronym!

 

Back in the late 1970s-late 80s when WTCG Atlanta, then-WOR New York and KTVU San Francisco went satellite, I was in heaven. WGN Chicago might also have been on the bird, but I don't recall have access to it.

Hawks, Flames, Braves, preseason Falcons on 17 ... Rangers, Knicks and Mets on 9 ... Warriors on KTVU (might have been Channel 2?).

 

As a young lad, I vividly recall watching Cubs games on WGN. I spent many summer afternoons down at my buddies house, and then after the game, go out in the front yard and play 500 before supper, or maybe sneak in a game of "North Side Baseball"......(I basically devised a miniature baseball field on the north side of my house.....There was a fence in between the two houses.....You could play it with as little as 2 people. The middle three boards of the fence we varnished out a strike zone. We used a tennis ball as the baseball, 3 bricks for the bases. Ghost runners were used all the time. A homerun was off the roof or over the houses across the street. To this day, I remember hitting a ball so far, it hit the air conditioning duct on the roof on the big house across the street. No one ever hit it over there. (The most frequent homerun was the one to straightaway center. You couldn't hit one out to left without whacking the siding on the neighbors house. I was out at my parents house a week or so ago, and yep.....there are still dents in the siding on the old neighbors house.) It was a bomb. It felt like I had just taken one into the upper deck down the right field line in old Yankee Stadium.) Then watching the Braves on TBS and listening to the Royals on radio.
From Harry/Stone----to Ernie/Skip/Pete/Sutton to Denny/Fred.........son of a bitch, I miss those days.