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3 hours ago
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Cardinals broadcaster Chip Caray reportedly won't be punished for accidentally saying anti-gay slur on air: 'Honest' mistake
Chip Caray has worked in MLB broadcasting since the 1990s. (Photo by) St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Chip Caray will not be disciplined after accidentally saying an anti-gay slur on air, according to Front Office Sports. The offending term came in the top of the fourth inning against the Cincinnati Reds, with Caray reading a promo for the Cardinals' Disability Pride Night. Caray appeared to immediately realize what he had done, as more than 30 seconds of silence followed while Cardinals starting pitcher Sonny Gray pitched to Spencer Steer. Caray eventually began speaking again as if nothing had happened. Advertisement FanDuel Sports Network Midwest reportedly declined comment to FOS, but the outlet reports the network considers the situation to be an "honest" mistake by the announcer. Caray, the son of broadcaster Skip Caray and grandson of Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Caray, is in his third season as the Cardinals' play-by-play man and has regularly worked in MLB broadcasting since the 1990s, most notably for his father's old Atlanta Braves team and his grandfather's old Chicago Cubs team. While under different circumstances, there have been two incidents similar to Caray's flub of the past five years. Cincinnati Reds announcer Thom Brennaman, another son of a longtime broadcaster, entered sports infamy in 2020 when he was caught on a hot mic using an anti-gay slur regarding San Francisco. He profusely apologized in the second game of the doubleheader, becoming a meme in the process, before getting yanked off air. Advertisement The Reds suspended Brennaman after the game and he eventually resigned, after apologizing again. Brennaman spent the next four years as something of a broadcasting pariah before joining the CW as a college football announcer last year. In 2023, Oakland Athletics broadcaster Glen Kuiper appeared to flub the name of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the worst possible way. Like Brennaman, Kuiper apologized on-air and was later suspended indefinitely. The A's fired Kuiper two weeks later after an internal review reportedly uncovered additional information, which played a factor in his termination. In his own statement, Kuiper said he "will always have a hard time understanding how one mistake in a 20-year broadcasting career is cause for termination." He has not worked as a broadcaster since then.
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5 hours ago
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Cardinals broadcaster Chip Caray reportedly won't be punished for accidentally saying anti-gay slur on air: 'Honest' mistake
Chip Caray has worked in MLB broadcasting since the 1990s. (Photo by) St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Chip Caray will not be disciplined after accidentally saying an anti-gay slur on air, according to Front Office Sports. The offending term came in the top of the fourth inning against the Cincinnati Reds, with Caray reading a promo for the Cardinals' Disability Pride Night. Caray appeared to immediately realize what he had done, as more than 30 seconds of silence followed while Cardinals starting pitcher Sonny Gray pitched to Spencer Steer. Caray eventually began speaking again as if nothing had happened. Advertisement FanDuel Sports Network Midwest reportedly declined comment to FOS, but the outlet reports the network considers the situation to be an "honest" mistake by the announcer. Caray, the son of broadcaster Skip Caray and grandson of Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Caray, is in his third season as the Cardinals' play-by-play man and has regularly worked in MLB broadcasting since the 1990s, most notably for his father's old Atlanta Braves team and his grandfather's old Chicago Cubs team. While under different circumstances, there have been two incidents similar to Caray's flub of the past five years. Cincinnati Reds announcer Thom Brennaman, another son of a longtime broadcaster, entered sports infamy in 2020 when he was caught on a hot mic using an anti-gay slur regarding San Francisco. He profusely apologized in the second game of the doubleheader, becoming a meme in the process, before getting yanked off air. Advertisement The Reds suspended Brennaman after the game and he eventually resigned, after apologizing again. Brennaman spent the next four years as something of a broadcasting pariah before joining the CW as a college football announcer last year. In 2023, Oakland Athletics broadcaster Glen Kuiper appeared to flub the name of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the worst possible way. Like Brennaman, Kuiper apologized on-air and was later suspended indefinitely. The A's fired Kuiper two weeks later after an internal review reportedly uncovered additional information, which played a factor in his termination. In his own statement, Kuiper said he "will always have a hard time understanding how one mistake in a 20-year broadcasting career is cause for termination." He has not worked as a broadcaster since then.
New York Post
6 hours ago
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- New York Post
Cardinals announcer makes unfortunate on-air slip-up during promo read
Cardinals announcer Chip Caray had perhaps the worst kind of slip-up a broadcaster could have. Midway through the top of the fourth inning of Saturday's matchup between the Cardinals and Reds, Caray, the play-by-play man on the FanDuel Sports Network, accidentally said a homophobic slur while doing an ad read. The St. Louis announcer was reading a promo for the team's upcoming Disability Pride Night, which takes place on July 10 against the Nationals, and fans will take home a Cardinals cap featuring the Disability Pride flag and braille lettering of the team name. Warning: explicit content While reading the ad, Caray unintentionally said the slur while trying to say a different word for the promo. What happened next, however, made the blunder even more awkward. Thirty-one seconds of dead silence in the broadcasting booth followed Caray's slip-up before commentator Brad Thompson finally broke it to comment on a pitch that was called a ball. Television broadcaster Chip Caray on the field before the start of MLB game action against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 18, 2015 at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Getty Images Front Office Sports reported, citing sources, that Caray will not be suspended and that he made an 'honest' mistake. A Cardinals spokesperson told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that what Caray said was 'unintentional.' Caray, who has been announcing since 1987, started doing play-by-play for the Cardinals in 2023, with his grandfather, Harry, calling games for St. Louis for over 20 years. Caray's father, Skip, was a longtime baseball broadcaster, most known for calling Braves games until his death in 2008. Last season, Caray teamed up with Joe Buck to announce a Cardinals-Rangers game, with the ESPN voice having nothing but praise for the 60-year-old. Broadcaster Chris Caray of the Oakland Athletics with his father Chip Caray in the press box before the game between the Athletics and Cardinals at the Oakland Coliseum on April 16, 2024 in Oakland, California. Getty Images 'Broadcasters get real territorial and Chip was the opposite of that,' Buck said during an appearance on on 'Total Information A.M.' then. 'He flung the doors open. My wife, my little boys, everybody was welcomed and he does not need to be that way.' 'He's a rarity in this business. I like to think I'm the same way, and I know my dad (Jack Buck) was, but those little things go a long way. To know he's there to root for me tonight, I'm there rooting for him and we're there to have a good time together, it makes all the difference in the world. 'It was not that way when I started when I was ironically filling in one time and working with Ken Wilson and I think there was a little bit of friction there.'
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6 hours ago
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Cardinals broadcaster Chip Caray reportedly won't be punished for saying anti-gay slur on air: 'Honest' mistake
Chip Caray has worked in MLB broadcasting since the 1990s. (Photo by) St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Chip Caray will not be disciplined after accidentally saying an anti-gay slur on air, according to Front Office Sports. The offending term came in the top of the fourth inning against the Cincinnati Reds, with Caray reading a promo for the Cardinals' Disability Pride Night. Caray appeared to immediately realize what he had done, as more than 30 seconds of silence followed while Cardinals starting pitcher Sonny Gray pitched to Spencer Steer. "Disability Pride Night is Thursday, July 10 and with a themed ticket, fans take home a Cardinals cap featuring the disability pride f** — flag and 'Cardinals' in braille. Details at Advertisement Caray eventually began speaking again as if nothing had happened. FanDuel Sports Network Midwest reportedly declined comment to FOS, but the outlet reports the network considers the situation to be an "honest" mistake by the announcer. Caray, the son of broadcaster Skip Caray and grandson of Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Caray, is in his third season as the Cardinals' play-by-play man and has regularly worked in MLB broadcasting since the 1990s, most notably for his father's old Atlanta Braves team and his grandfather's old Chicago Cubs team. While under different circumstances, there have been two incidents similar to Caray's flub of the past five years. Advertisement Cincinnati Reds announcer Thom Brennaman, another son of a longtime broadcaster, entered sports infamy in 2020 when he was caught on a hot mic calling San Francisco the "one of the f** capitals of the world." He profusely apologized in the second game of the doubleheader, becoming a meme in the process, before getting yanked off air. The Reds suspended Brennaman after the game and he eventually resigned, after apologizing again. Brennaman spent the next four years as something of a broadcasting pariah before joining the CW as a college football announcer last year. In 2023, Oakland Athletics broadcaster Glen Kuiper appeared to flub the name of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the worst possible way, calling it the "N***** League Museum." Like Brennaman, Kuiper apologized on air and was later suspended indefinitely. The A's fired Kuiper two weeks later after an internal review reportedly uncovered additional information, which played a factor in his termination. In his own statement, Kuiper said he "will always have a hard time understanding how one mistake in a 20-year broadcasting career is cause for termination." He has not worked as a broadcaster since then.
Daily Mail
9 hours ago
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- Daily Mail
Commentator Chip Caray's shocking slip of the tongue during Pride night commercial goes viral
A baseball commentator suffered an unfortunate slip of the tongue at the worst possible time on Saturday. St. Louis Cardinals announcer Chip Caray was asked to read a Disability Pride promo during the fourth inning of their game against the Cincinnati Reds. But he accidentally mispronounced 'flag', turning the word into an unintentional homophobic slur. 'Disability Pride Night is July 10 and with a themed ticket fans take home a Cardinals cap featuring the Disability Pride f**', Caray said before correcting himself to say 'flag'. There was then a painful silence that lasted around 30 seconds after the mistake as the game continued in the background. Caray's colleague Brad Thompson finally broke the silence by commenting on a pitch that was called for a ball. Fans quickly flocked to social media to comment on the humiliating error and share their thoughts. One posted: 'Uh oh, thats a rough one lol'. Another commented: 'Loudest silence I've ever heard lol'. A third added: 'It was an obvious slip of the tongue just a simple apology and move on.' 'The silence after is the apology he's obviously mortified and probably has a thousand thoughts running in his head,' another viewer said. 'He should not be reprimanded. It was literally a slip of the tongue. I highly doubt Caray is running around using that word. People need to focus on real outrage.'
