Prediction: One Brennaman down…one to go.
On Saturday night during Marshall University’s preseason baseball banquet and fundraiser at the Cam Henderson Center, Brennaman - the keynote speaker - determined that Marshall’s president must be “queer” for softball since the university managed to open a $2.5 million softball facility in March 2008, but baseball is still traveling for home games.
Think that’ll go over well with the guy - Marshall President Stephen Kopp - who is partly responsible for bringing a Herd baseball facility to Huntington?
...“They’ve (Pirates) probably improved themselves, which means they’ll probably lose 97 games,” said Brennaman of the Pirates, who were 57-105 in 2010. “There’s no light at the end of the tunnel for that franchise. There really isn’t.
“I don’t think it has great ownership, I don’t think it has great baseball expertise in its front office, and is strapped for finances, which is probably the single biggest problem. I feel bad for them. PNC Park is one of the fine ballparks in Major League Baseball.”
...Brennaman offered his assessment on the Cardinals, Cubs, Pirates and Brewers.
St. Louis Cardinals - “I’m not a big St. Louis fan, because I’m not a big Tony LaRussa fan. I refer to him as ‘Mr. Baseball’ on the radio, because he acts like he invented the game.”
Chicago Cubs - “The Chicago Cubs won’t be a factor because, no matter how much they add to their club, at the end of the day, they’ve got ‘Cubs’ across the front of their jerseys. That’s the reason why they won’t win.”
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1. Leroy Kincaid Posted: February 07, 2011 at 01:12 PM (#3745060)Maybe we can get him in a row boat on Lake Tahoe.
This is coming from a lifelong Reds' fan who grew up listening to Marty on a daily basis.
This is a pretty good point actually. There is a lot of hypocrisy in that. Even if thats not the way the rules work.
I disagree. I think there is a pretty clear difference between honoring the achievement and honoring the man. Pete Rose got 4,256 hits, pretending he didn't would be silly but in my opinion he forfeited the right to be honored by the Hall by his actions.
I always knew I thought Marty was an #######, but evidently he's a moron, too.
It would if Marty didn't have about 10 of those moments already in the can. I'm impressed he was able to hide his genetically predisposed ############# for so much longer than Thom was.
I know I'm in the minority, but to me that means all Office episodes.
again in the minority here, but I fully support Pete Rose induction into the Hall of Fame, I think he should be banned from a job in baseball, especially any job that involves him dealing with players during the regular season(special spring training coach is fine, tv/radio gig is fine, no in season coaching including bench coach)
Not that the Cubs aren't inept and whatnot, but they've spent a hell of a lot more time being a factor in the NL Central race in recent years than the Reds have.
Yeah. Brennaman should wait until the Reds win a bit more before he goes all Yankee fan on the world.
I don't think he hid it -- it just didn't get noticed because he is so small market (not many people care about the Cincinnati radio guy)where his son exposed himself on a larger stage and was noticed.
He's been acting like this since 1975 -- maybe even 1972. He believes he was a part of the Big Red Machine, and it is the Big Red Machine's world -- everyone else is just living in it.
Even his statement "they’ve got ‘Cubs’ across the front of their jerseys" is incorrect. They've either got "Cubs" inside a little circle on the top left of their jerseys, or they've got "Chicago" across the front of their jerseys.
On the Cubs, heh. On LaRussa, yeah. On PNC, agree. On the Pirates ownership, sure I guess. Pirates record, okay. On Marshall, christ, what an #######.
Can't we just have a Brennaman-free experience? I'd take Joe Buck over either, which is the second-nastiest insult imaginable in this context.
I support letting the voters vote on Rose. I wouldn't vote for him if I were a BBWAA member, but I don't think they should have created a special rule just for Rose.
Boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Was Abe Simpson busy that evening?
"Mr. Radio" would be the parallel construction. It's not like he's calling LaRussa "Mr. Doubleday" (or whomever).
Yes, Marty is an asshoel, but this is nonsense.
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