This is a big story in baseball this morning, so let’s get right to it.
During Wednesday’s Reds/Royals doubleheader broadcast on Fox Sports Ohio, longtime Reds play-by-play announcer Thom Brennaman, apparently not knowing his microphone was live, made a homophobic slur:
Here's a better video with the full bit of the perceived tHom homophobic comment at around the 2:06 mark of the game. pic.twitter.com/g1yBHg8zA0
— Church of Baseball u26be (@churchofbasebal) August 19, 2020
Brennaman was immediately removed from the broadcast, and some time later he returned, issuing the following apology:
It’s unintentionally humorous, in a clearly not-humorous situation, for him to interrupt his apology with a call of a home run by Nick Castellanos.