Daron Sutton was back in Arizona visiting his family last week, enjoying a week-long break in his schedule broadcasting Angels games before the second half of the season, when he got a message from his bosses at Bally Sports West telling him they needed to talk.
“I actually told my wife, ‘I’m curious what they want to talk about,’” he said. “If it’s something great, I’ll be back in a few.”
Instead, it was an unexpected gut punch.
Sutton was informed Saturday that he would no longer be a part of the Angels’ broadcast team, a move he said in a phone interview Tuesday caught him completely off-guard.