According to the St. Front office sports.
The offensive term comes in the top of the fourth inning against the Cincinnati Reds, with Caray reading a promo for the Cardinals Pride Night. Caray seems to immediately realize what he was doing, as more than 30 seconds followed silence, while starting batsman Sonny Gray, the cardinals, steered to Spencer.
Caray finally started talking again as if nothing happened.
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According to Fanduel Sports Network Midwest, the comments to Fos rejected, but the outlet reports that the network considers the situation as an ‘honest’ error by the broadcaster.
Caray, the son of Broadcaster ship Caray and grandson of Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Caray, is in his third season as the Cardinals’ play-for-play man and has been working regularly in MLB broadcasting since the 1990s, especially for his father’s old Atlanta Braves team and his grandfather’s old Chicago Cubs team.
Although there were two incidents under different circumstances similar to Caray’s flub of the past five years.
Cincinnati Reds announcer Thom Brennaman, another son of a long -standing broadcaster, entered Sportsmany in 2020 When he was caught on a hot microphone using an anti-gay slurp over San Francisco. He apologized in the second match of the DoubleHeader and became a meme in the process before getting off the air.
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The Reds suspended Brennaman after the match and He finally resigned, After he apologized again. Brennaman spent the next four years as something of a broadcasting paria Join the CW last year as a university football caller.
In 2023 the Oakland Athletics broadcaster Glen Kuiper seems to flub the name of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the worst way. Like Brennaman, Kuiper apologized on the air and was later suspended indefinitely.
The A’s fired two weeks later To an internal overview reported report uncovered additional information, which played a factor in his termination. In his own statement, Kuiper said he would “always have a difficult time to understand how one mistake in a 20-year-old broadcasting career is cause for termination.” He has not worked as a broadcaster ever since.
