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Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 20 2020 05:32 AM

Thom Brennaman -- local TV Reds announcer and Fox game-of-the-week caller got hot-mic'ed during last night's game using the F-word. Not that f-word, but "fag." But, it was way worse than just that. There was dripping contempt in his voice as he expressed it. Came back after and excused himself from the broadcast (as a home run was hit, remarkably), apologizing but you could tell he knew there was no "not guilty" plea available to him. He's been invited to speak at the Republican Convention so not all is lost

Fman99 Aug 20 2020 06:00 AM Re: You're Out

Referred to Kansas City as "one of the fag capitals of the world." Which I had not known. Always learning new things from my hateful friends at Fox!

Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 20 2020 06:18 AM Re: You're Out

I'm thinking it was New York since he was calling Matt Harvey Night. But whatever. Brennaman in the games I've heard seems okay. The Reds fans who hear him everyday find him pompous but popular, like Joe Buck also a Fox star and son of a broadcast legend.

kcmets Aug 20 2020 06:48 AM Re: You're Out

Maybe I'm wrong, but I find it pleasantly amusing when another self-important windbag publically shits the bed and has to take the sheets out to the dumpster and throw them away along with his career. Buh-bye, Brenny...

MFS62 Aug 20 2020 07:07 AM Re: You're Out

It takes a certain kind of person to work for FOX. And they prove it each and every day. Later

Centerfield Aug 20 2020 10:48 AM Re: You're Out

I'm sorry that we came back from commercial early and a hot mic caught me being myself.

Chad ochoseis Aug 20 2020 11:47 AM Re: You're Out

Referred to Kansas City as "one of the fag capitals of the world." Which I had not known. Always learning new things from my hateful friends at Fox! [YOUTUBE]nNTZ5tqas1k[/YOUTUBE]

A Boy Named Seo Aug 20 2020 11:51 AM Re: You're Out

I love how 10 minutes later Thom was a different person when begging for his job. Get that shitbag outta there.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 20 2020 12:56 PM Re: You're Out

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/i/status/1296230926595305480[/TWEET]

Benjamin Grimm Aug 20 2020 01:01 PM Re: You're Out

He's 56 years old (as I was until a few months ago) and is in his 14th season as a Reds announcer.

Frayed Knot Aug 20 2020 01:12 PM Re: You're Out

=MFS62 post_id=44291 time=1597928850 user_id=60] It takes a certain kind of person to work for FOX.

Local sports announcers like him aren't really working for FOX. I mean they are in the long run but in an entirely separate sphere from the news division.

SNY is Wilpon owned but the cable station that carries the Mets could just as easily be part of one of the inter-connected networks of local affiliates that

broadcasts most Baseball/Hoops/Hockey regular season stuff, one of them being under the FOX umbrella, and, if so, it's not like they wouldn't hire or

keep Gary, Keith & Ron to do games. In fact FOX did hire Keith to do some studio work on their national games back in the fall of '18 I think it was.



I think FOX was trying to sell those cable-locals as a package and that Disney was set to buy, but that either fell through or I'm screwing up the details.





But more importantly, the VERY FIRST THING they teach you in broadcast elementary school is to treat EVERY mic as if it's a HOT mic. You wouldn't

figure a second generation broadcaster would get tripped up on that but I guess complacency sets in eventually.

A Boy Named Seo Aug 20 2020 01:51 PM Re: You're Out

Frayed Knot wrote: =MFS62 post_id=44291 time=1597928850 user_id=60] It takes a certain kind of person to work for FOX. But more importantly, the VERY FIRST THING they teach you in broadcast elementary school is to treat EVERY mic as if it's a HOT mic. You wouldn't figure a second generation broadcaster would get tripped up on that but I guess complacency sets in eventually.

Even more important, don't be a homophobic asshole who would say things like that in the first place. If he said that yesterday in the booth, chances are it's probably not the first time in 14 years he's muttered some stuff like that in front of co-workers.

kcmets Aug 20 2020 01:55 PM Re: You're Out Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 20 2020 01:57 PM

Yeah, I mean whoever he was talking to is likely just as bad and probably should just go slither away as well.

A Boy Named Seo Aug 20 2020 01:57 PM Re: You're Out

It's probable anyway. I didn't hear cackling like Billy Bush from the other person, but Thom seemed to know he could say that in front of whoever he was in front of without any consequences.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 20 2020 02:06 PM Re: You're Out

I think he was talking to someone through his headset, which would explain why we only hear one end of the conversation.

Frayed Knot Aug 20 2020 02:16 PM Re: You're Out

So when are we going to get to find out what 'Fag Capital' he's talking about? I mean, some people might want to make plans, either towards or away from, said city based on Brennermann's recommendations.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 20 2020 02:55 PM Re: You're Out

I'm going to guess New York, Miami, or San Francisco.

Frayed Knot Aug 20 2020 03:15 PM Re: You're Out

I dunno, the stories I've heard about Altoona ...

kcmets Aug 20 2020 04:20 PM Re: You're Out

When contacted, Provincetown and Key West, both declined to comment.

ashie62 Aug 20 2020 04:32 PM Re: You're Out

I had to laugh when I heard it.

G-Fafif Aug 20 2020 05:18 PM Re: You're Out

Coulda been Raleigh if he claims he was talking about cigarettes with a British acquaintance.

ashie62 Aug 20 2020 06:29 PM Re: You're Out

Kansas City "they got crazy little women and I tell you that I want me one."

whippoorwill Aug 20 2020 08:20 PM Re: You're Out

Frayed Knot wrote: I dunno, the stories I've heard about Altoona ... Altoona! That's where the shoe-stealing cat is from!

Edgy MD Aug 20 2020 08:46 PM Re: You're Out

A notable part for me is that it was during the pre-game show. I've heard enough radio broadcasters hit the autopilot by the sixth inning, well into beer three or four, but shit-talking like your Uncle Todd before the first pitch is hardcore.

MFS62 Aug 21 2020 08:47 AM Re: You're Out

Here's a terrible trio for ya'. And they're not all on FOX news. https://deadspin.com/it-s-been-a-bad-day-for-curt-schilling-and-it-s-not-eve-1844789032 Later

LWFS Aug 22 2020 01:29 AM Re: You're Out

Nobody mentioned his apology? Oh, it was a "good" one. [BLOCKQUOTE]As Brennaman started apologizing later in the game, Reds outfielder Nick Castellanos hit a home run that Brennaman called before going back into his apology.[/BLOCKQUOTE]

Lefty Specialist Aug 22 2020 05:26 AM Re: You're Out

You know, he wasn't specific, was he referring to Kansas City, KS or Kansas City, MO? 80% of the city is on the Missouri side but maybe things are a little crazier in Kansas. Y'know, asking for a friend.

Frayed Knot Aug 23 2020 07:28 PM Re: You're Out

Lots of tributes to Kobe Bryant today on what would have been his birthday with probably no mentions of his in-game/on-court gay slur towards a ref near the tail-end of his career. Outrage in these sorts of cases can be ... let's say selective.

ashie62 Aug 23 2020 08:48 PM Re: You're Out

The larger than life types get away with alot

Edgy MD Aug 24 2020 07:12 AM Re: You're Out

Well, dead guys do, too. For my money, Brenneman deserves a suspension, but not the end of the road.

Frayed Knot Aug 24 2020 07:36 AM Re: You're Out

Kobe, at the time of the slur, was fined by, I believe the league rather than the team, and not suspended by either.

LWFS Aug 24 2020 10:19 PM Re: You're Out

Edgy MD wrote: Well, dead guys do, too. For my money, Brenneman deserves a suspension, but not the end of the road. Here's the thing-- it's not just that he said the word. It's that the "slip-up"-- along with each subsequent apology attempt-- reveals that he's kind of a troglodyte. And if your job is to build a bridge to the public on a nightly basis, and serve as a sort of audio ambassador for the ballclub... how helpful is it to the club that the public knows this guy feels this way about them/their family and friends? Never mind whether forgiveness is deserved... in a case like this, in a job like his, how is forgiveness plausible?

Edgy MD Aug 25 2020 07:22 AM Re: You're Out

That's perfectly valid. I mean to suggest that the inital infraction itself is worthy of a suspension. Worse has been said here — sometimes maliciously, sometimes ironically. I admit that I haven't closely followed his attempts to eat his words, and if he's chronically fumbling them, I certainly amn't going to defend him.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 25 2020 07:48 AM Re: You're Out

The thing is, NO apology is ever considered good enough by the general public. No one has yet found the magic words to show contrition without also seeming to make excuses, or without seeming to be mostly sorry about being caught, or any number of other things. You can either say too little, or too much. If you get into a situation where you have to apologize, you're doomed. That seems to be where we are these days.

Fman99 Aug 25 2020 08:10 AM Re: You're Out

Even more damning than the content of his words was the tone of them. He did not use that word in a joking way or with any degree of levity. It sounded like it came from a position of hate, or disgust. He's not coming back from that.

G-Fafif Sep 25 2020 02:12 PM Re: You're Out

Thom Brennaman has officially resigned from the Reds booth.

MFS62 Sep 25 2020 04:52 PM Re: You're Out

=G-Fafif post_id=47453 time=1601064776 user_id=55] Thom Brennaman has officially resigned from the Reds booth.

If you'd like to call a local Cincy talk sports show to discuss it(or just to tell them what a Jerk Pete Rose was), the number was 1-800-THE-BIG1 (1-800-843-2441) when I was in an airport listening to it.

OE: it may have been 1-800- BIG-RED1 - it was several years ago.



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