Marty Brennaman Continues Britney-Like Meltdown; Gives Cubs Fans a Reason to Smile

You'd think that Marty Brennaman would have recognized that he was, in fact, a ridiculous asshat after giving Cubs fans in the bleachers the “if you kids throw that ball over the wall one more time, I'm keeping it!” routine. Especially considering he celebrated Reds fans throwing radios, whiskey bottles, and toilet paper on the field because an ump made a bad call. Or the fact that he very sensitively compared a Reds road trip to the Bataan Death March (baseball road trip=torture and murder of American soldiers. Whoopee!), and had to apologize the next week.

Alas, Brennaman the Elder decided to up the ante one more time on the Reds broadcast because Jeff Brantley (he of the “Edwin Encarnacion is simply NOT clutch” fame) decided to correct the fact that Grumpy Old Man missed a strike call. Here's a brief paraphrasing of the exchange:

Marty: there's a ball
Jeff: no, strike
Marty: Fuck You! DON'T YOU EVER CHALLENGE ME ON THE AIR AGAIN! FUCK YOU and FUCK THIS!
Marty: (leaves booth)

(Uncomfortable Silence)


(Uncomfortable Silence)


Jeff: So the next hitter up is...

So in a single week, the Reds announcer not only loses his mind on air and paints all Cubs fans with a broad brush based on the actions of 15 idiots in the bleachers, somehow linking the fortune of the team on the field to the behavior of the fans, but also curses out his color guy in a manner that is likely to get the team a significant fine and may get him suspended. In doing so, he not only reinforces the fact that Joe Buck does not, in fact, have the most ridiculous high horse of any announcer, but also that he's an incredible hypocrite who clearly feels that throwing baseballs on the field in jest somehow makes someone a worse fan than, say, someone who drops multiple F-bombs on television simply because someone had the audacity to correct his mistake. As a Cubs fan (as well as someone who loves to revel in the misfortune of people who have wronged me, or just douchebags in general) I guess I have only one thing to say:


Awesome.