Category: White Sox

Mariners Announcers Had Perfect One-Word Reactions to Awful Called Third Strike
12 Jun 24 Jimm Sallivan

Mariners Announcers Had Perfect One-Word Reactions to Awful Called Third Strike

The 2024 Major League Baseball season has featured way too many bad calls by umpires that have left players, managers and announcers in utter disbelief.

That happened again in the bottom of the seventh inning of Tuesday night's White Sox-Mariners game when Seattle's Ryan Bliss struck out looking on a 3-2 pitch that seemed to be well outside of the strike zone. Umpire Gabe Morales, however, didn't hesitate in calling it a strike, which left the Mariners' broadcast booth in shock.

These one-word reactions were pretty spot-on:

The Mariners went on to score two runs in that inning and won the game, 4-3, but fans weren't happy with that call:

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White Sox Announcer Gets Roasted for Laughably Optimistic Statement About Team’s Form
1 Jun 24 Jimm Sallivan

White Sox Announcer Gets Roasted for Laughably Optimistic Statement About Team’s Form

The MLB-worst Chicago White Sox just suffered their ninth-straight loss in Friday’s 12–5 defeat against the Milwaukee Brewers. One Sox broadcaster, however, is keeping his head up.

NBC Sports Chicago play-by-play announcer John Schriffen, who replaced Jason Benetti in January, turned into the butt of jokes on social media when he made an optimistic statement about the team that arguably bordered on a state of denial.

During Friday’s game, Schriffen told booth mate Steve Stone, “It feels like this run the White Sox are on, we’re catching teams at the wrong time.”

A pause was drawn out before Stone replied, chuckling, “Well, there’s that. There’s a few other reasons. But that’s certainly one of them.”

The White Sox fell to 15-43 following their loss to Milwaukee having dropped 13 of their last 14 games. Schriffen seemingly tried to chalk up their abysmal form to scheduling woes, though one could argue that if that’s the case, the White Sox’s entire MLB schedule is doing them in. 

Chicago owns a league-worst -134 run differential and went 6–24 in the months of March and April and 9–19 in May, their worst start in franchise history.

Fans on X (formerly known as Twitter) roasted Schriffen for his fanciful theories.

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