{"id":1994370,"date":"2023-08-08T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T18:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/orioles-announcer-was-suspended-after-citing-teams-poor-record-against-tampa-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T18:26:02","slug":"orioles-announcer-was-suspended-after-citing-teams-poor-record-against-tampa-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/orioles-announcer-was-suspended-after-citing-teams-poor-record-against-tampa-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Announcer Was Suspended After Citing Team\u2019s Poor Record Against Tampa: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Forioles-announcer-was-suspended-after-citing-teams-poor-record-against-tampa-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1994370&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">An announcer for the Baltimore Orioles was suspended reportedly for citing on air the team\u2019s historically bad record against the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kevin Brown made the comments on MASN during the team\u2019s game against the Rays on July 23. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4756738\/2023\/08\/07\/kevin-brown-orioles-broadcasts-removal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Athletic<\/a>, multiple sources privy to the decision to suspend Brown said his suspension was catalyzed by his remarks; the suspension was first <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/mlb\/kevin-brown-baltimore-orioles-masn-suspension.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> by Awful Announcing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s felt like this has been maybe the toughest ballpark to play in,\u201d Brown stated on July 23. \u201cBut the Orioles have a chance to do something special today; they\u2019ve already clinched at least a split in the series, winning two of the first three, and they could pick up a series win behind Tyler Wells today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a minute; the Orioles split a two-gamer with the Rays in June,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey had lost their last 15 series here at Tropicana Field. You have to go back to when our now-colleague Brad Brock picked up the win in the series finale June 25, 2017, the last time the Orioles won a series here at St. Pete. Already got three and two at the Trop this year after winning three of eighteen the previous three years combined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt is a stark difference, Bennett,\u201d he said to fellow announcer Ben McDonald. \u201cIt is not a bad Rays team,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like all of a sudden the Rays became slouches in the American League East. They\u2019ve led this division every day but now two, and the Orioles once again, are back alone in first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s the clip of Kevin Brown&#8217;s pregame comments on the Orioles&#8217; recent record against the Rays ahead of a series finale on July 23. Sources tell AA these comments led to Brown&#8217;s current indefinite suspension from Orioles&#8217; broadcasts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/csURU04fJU\">pic.twitter.com\/csURU04fJU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1688634791573262336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The July 23 game notes, collated by the Orioles\u2019 public relations staff, had noted, \u201cThe Orioles have won three of the first five games at The Trop this season after winning three of the 21 games played in St. Petersburg from 2020-22.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to The Athletic, Orioles ownership took umbrage at Brown\u2019s remarks because they thought it made them sound tight-fisted. The team\u2019s payroll ranks 29th<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>out of 30 teams in Major League baseball.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brown did announce for the team on the radio the next series against Philadelphia, although The Athletic reported he did so because another announcer got in trouble with the team.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/08\/suspended-baltimore-orioles-announcer-kevin-brown-to-return-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that a\u00a0senior Orioles official <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/mlb\/kevin-brown-baltimore-orioles-masn-suspension.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told Awful Announcing<\/a> that Brown will be back, saying,\u00a0\u201cWe look forward to hearing Kevin\u2019s voice soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An announcer for the Baltimore Orioles was suspended reportedly for citing on air the team\u2019s historically bad record against the Tampa Bay Rays. Kevin Brown made the comments on MASN during the team\u2019s game against the Rays on July 23. According to The Athletic, multiple sources privy to the decision to suspend Brown said his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1994372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}