Broadcasters blast Orioles after report they pulled Kevin Brown from booth: ‘Laughingstock’
Famed sports talker and WFAN alum Chris “Mad Dog” Russo tore into the team’s actions and called them a “disgrace” for reportedly suspending Brown over “the most innocuous, truthful statement.”
“This idiot Angelos, who’s never won a damn thing,” Russo fumed. “This is the guy that gets fired or gets him demoted or gets him silenced for a period of time as sort of punishment. Are you kidding me?! That is a disgrace. That is so bad, I don’t even know how to comment. Who would want to be a play-by-play guy of the Orioles?”Mets’ play-by-play man Gary Cohen of SNY also chided the Orioles during the team’s game against the Cubs on Monday night.
“During a recent game at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Kevin during his opening talked about how the Orioles had had trouble winning in the past at Tropicana Field, but that they were doing better this year. That was really all he said, and for that the Baltimore Orioles management decided to suspend Kevin Brown,” Cohen said on SNY.
“Let me just say one thing to the Baltimore Orioles management, you draped yourself in humiliation when you fired John Miller and you’re doing it again. And if you don’t want Kevin Brown there are 29 other teams that do. It’s a horrendous decision by the Orioles. I don’t know what they were thinking, but they’ve gotten exactly the reaction that they’ve deserved. It’s just a shame because the Orioles have played so well and now they’ve diverted attention from that.
“The Orioles are in first place, having an amazing season, and John Angelos pulls him off the air for giving facts? Absolutely embarrassing move,”Chicago White Sox play-by-play voice Jason Benetti called Brown “one of the best play-by-play announcers in the country.
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