Broadcasters blast Orioles after report they pulled Kevin Brown from booth: ‘Laughingstock’

Announcers across baseball and beyond were seeing red over reports that the Baltimore Orioles had pulled play-by-play man Kevin Brown from the air over a mundane comment about the team’s recent success in Tampa. 

The offending comment was about the fact the Orioles had won more games at Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays, this season than they had in the previous three seasons combined.

Brown’s remarks were backed up by team game notes that were put together by the Orioles’ media relations staff. 

Still, it was reportedly enough to ruffle the feathers of ownership, according to Awful Announcing and later confirmed by The Athletic, that he hadn’t called a game on TV or radi...
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