Though the Houston Astros aren’t in the Major League Baseball postseason this year, they still managed to make headlines thanks to a prospect, but for the wrong reasons.
Brooks Marlow, who is in single-A with the Houston Astros’ organization, tweeted during Tuesday’s National League Wild Card game between the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets that women shouldn’t be calling baseball games for ESPN. This obviously comes while Jessica Mendoza is in the booth for ESPN.
.@astros Here is the screenshot pic.twitter.com/ddovXUUU0J
— Neil Weinberg (@NeilWeinberg44) October 6, 2016
Marlow went on to delete the tweet. But as we all know, the internet is way too smart to just let something die because a person deleted a tweet.
Though Marlow feels like he is standing on tall ground as a man in the minor leagues, he was taken in the 29th round in 2015. Might want to take a look at yourself before taking shots at women who are making millions like Mendoza.
The Astros have since addressed Marlow’s actions via Twitter.
The Astros have released the following statement: pic.twitter.com/AiZjFKKCRQ
— Houston Astros (@astros) October 6, 2016
As a woman analyzing one of the four major men’s professional, American sports, Mendoza is no stranger to negativity. But it is kind frightening that someone inside the sport would go after Mendoza.
During a recent podcast with Sarah Spain on ESPN Radio, Mendoza talks about her experience with degrading comments from the opposite sex. She references her time playing baseball, but she says it has become more bothersome as more of the criticism comes.
But as all of this criticism is coming in, Mendoza is continuing to become a mainstay on ESPN’s baseball broadcasts. Tuesday’s game was the second consecutive year she’s called a postseason game. I don’t see her going away anytime soon, and neither should the critics.
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