Kevin Brown, the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network’s lead play-by-player announcer for Orioles video games, was faraway from the membership’s tv broadcasts a day after itemizing off statistics about Baltimore’s poor play in latest seasons, in line with sources with information of the crew’s choices.
Brown hasn’t been featured on MASN broadcasts for the previous two weeks. The Orioles entered their July 23 sport in opposition to the Tampa Bay Rays with an opportunity to win a sequence at Tropicana Field for the primary time since 2017. With an accompanying graphic on the MASN broadcast, Brown identified that the Orioles have been 0-15-1 of their earlier 16 street sequence in opposition to the Rays, going 3-18 at Tropicana Field from 2020 to 2022. Brown listed the figures in reward of the present crew, which holds the very best report within the American League.
The Orioles gained the sport to take a two-game lead over the Rays within the AL East, their first time main the division that late in a season since 2016. They have since stretched that result in three video games, however Brown hasn’t referred to as any of these video games on MASN. As the membership completed off its latest street journey with three video games in Philadelphia, Brown was within the Orioles Radio Network sales space moderately than MASN’s as he was initially scheduled. He has not referred to as the crew’s subsequent video games in opposition to the New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets on both tv or radio.
An Orioles spokesperson directed a request for remark Monday to a MASN spokesperson, who didn’t instantly reply. The community is majority owned by the crew, with John Angelos serving because the CEO of each the Orioles and MASN.
Brown additionally didn’t reply to a request for remark. He turned the Orioles’ lead tv play-by-play announcer final season, after being a part of the crew’s broadcast crew since 2019. During Brown’s first three seasons calling Orioles video games, Baltimore went 131-253, ending with one of many majors’ 5 worst data in every marketing campaign. Still, he popularized himself with the fan base by analytical insights, popular culture references and rapport with colour commentators comparable to Jim Palmer and Ben McDonald.
The Orioles went 83-79 in 2022 however nonetheless struggled at Tropicana Field, going 2-7. This season, Baltimore is 70-42 and completed 4-2 at Tropicana Field.
Brett Hollander, who usually hosts pre- and postgame exhibits on MASN or supplies play-by-play on radio broadcasts, has primarily referred to as video games on MASN in Brown’s place. The Orioles full their homestand with three video games in opposition to the Houston Astros earlier than embarking on a three-city journey out west that begins in Seattle.
This isn’t the Orioles’ first dispute involving a MASN broadcaster’s perceived lack of positivity. When eventual Hall of Fame broadcaster Jon Miller left the crew after 14 seasons in 1996, proprietor Peter Angelos, the daddy of the membership’s present CEO, criticized Miller for not being “an advocate for the team.”
“You have the detached observer, but that’s the role of the journalist,” Peter Angelos mentioned on the time. “I don’t think that’s the status of a team broadcaster. They should be an advocate for the team. They’ve got to bleed a little bit for the Orioles.”
Miller, who ultimately signed with the San Francisco Giants and calls their video games to at the present time, mentioned then, “When I heard that and I realized that it was serious, I knew it was inevitable that I’d have to leave. You can’t broadcast the games that way.”
Sports media weblog Awful Announcing first reported the rationale for Brown’s removing from MASN broadcasts.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com