MLB Network’s “Speed Cam” returns for Wednesday’s Braves-Marlins NLDS Game 2 telecast
"The dynamic part of this camera is that it can really get up to a good speed up and down the dugout," says MLB Network producer Chris Pfeiffer.
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Braves analyst Jeff Francoeur tests positive for COVID-19, will miss games while he quarantines
"I have tested positive for COVID-19. I am asymptomatic and feel fine, but I will be in self-quarantine until I’m cleared to get back to the broadcast booth with Chip and Tom."
John Smoltz on Jeff Francoeur’s 2007 golf meltdown: “Each and every shot, you could see him getting angrier and angrier.”
“This time, he’s trying to hit it so far right that he pull-hooks it out of bounds. So now he’s hitting seven off the tee. I’m foaming at the mouth. He hits his next drive and it hits land before going in the water.”
Mic’d-up Freddie Freeman makes fun of his own speed, then narrates himself scoring from first on a single
"Oh, watch this! There's the wind, boys, there's the wind!"
Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU displays racist graphic in Atlanta’s loss to Cardinals (updated)
This reminded people of the time KTVU read obviously fake and racist Asian names of pilots in a deadly plane crash.
Atlanta sports pundit Terence Moore blasts low crowd “25 minutes before Game 2” with photo showing 51 minutes until Game 2
When crowd photos go very wrong.
Pirates’ announcer Steve Blass keeps up the dog-whistling with jewelry comments about Ronald Acuña Jr.
Steve Blass called out Ronald Acuña Jr.'s jewelry after a hit-by-pitch.
Jon Sciambi tells the hilarious story of the time he gave Chipper Jones hitting advice, and Jones stared up at the booth after...
Chipper Jones was not happy that a hitting tip from play-by-play man Jon Sciambi didn't work.
Fox Sports Ohio’s Chris Welsh says Ozzie Albies “might not know the difference between $35M and $85M” (updated)
"Albies came from a very poor background, he's from Curaçao, and when somebody offers you 35 million dollars—I mean, he may not know the difference between 35 million dollars and 85 million dollars."
Keith Hernandez again endorses Marlins hitting Ronald Acuña, blames Acuña for injury, as MLB suspends José Ureña for six games
"Acuña could have turned his back, who knows, it's split-second, but he did drop his elbow to deflect the ball, and unfortunately he got hit in the elbow, and that's one place you don't want to get hit. ...So I stand firmly by what I said, and I don't think the pitch was that terrible."
Keith Hernandez’s “You gotta hit him” comments on Ronald Acuña being hit with the first pitch of a game led to an uproar
"You hit three home runs, I'm sorry, you're going to go down. ...You've got a team that's out of it that's retaliating, and that's just part of the baseball code."
Braves postgame show continues seamlessly while man faceplants in background
Brian Jordan wants to laugh so hard here.
