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New York Post
13 hours ago
- Sport
- 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.'
Yahoo
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Town's first pride event festival of 'inclusion'
A town will celebrate its first ever pride festival this summer, which its chair has said will be "wider than the LGBT community". Windsor will host the inaugural Windsor and Eton Pride event on 25 July, with a pride march set to take place through the town centre. Chair Steve Harris said it would be a "festival of inclusion" where "disabilities, ethnicities and genders" would be be celebrated. He added he wanted the event to be somewhere everyone could come to and be "themselves". Speaking to Radio Berkshire, Mr Harris said accessibility would be an important part of the event, mainly taking place in Alexandra Gardens. "It's a lot more than just an LGBT event... two of our trustees suffer from MS [multiple sclerosis] so we're designing a festival by disabled people and including them." He said the festival had been in development for two years and organisers were still hoping for more support from people and local businesses. "We're getting a lot of people behind it, ideally though we really need to push things," said Mr Harris. The event's parade will travel down Long Walk on the "busiest" day in Windsor's calendar, he said, describing it as "daunting". Windsor and Eton Pride's website states the event will be free but a ticket will still be required. Reading will have its own pride festival on 24 August. Plans for the town to host its second Disability Pride event in 2024 were cancelled after Reading Borough Council blamed "finance and staffing issues". You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram. Disability Pride plans scuppered by money issues Windsor and Eton Pride Reading Pride
BBC News
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Windsor's first pride event to be festival of 'inclusion'
A town will celebrate its first ever pride festival this summer, which its chair has said will be "wider than the LGBT community".Windsor will host the inaugural Windsor and Eton Pride event on 25 July, with a pride march set to take place through the town centre. Chair Steve Harris said it would be a "festival of inclusion" where "disabilities, ethnicities and genders" would be be added he wanted the event to be somewhere everyone could come to and be "themselves". Speaking to Radio Berkshire, Mr Harris said accessibility would be an important part of the event, mainly taking place in Alexandra Gardens."It's a lot more than just an LGBT event... two of our trustees suffer from MS [multiple sclerosis] so we're designing a festival by disabled people and including them."He said the festival had been in development for two years and organisers were still hoping for more support from people and local businesses. "We're getting a lot of people behind it, ideally though we really need to push things," said Mr event's parade will travel down Long Walk on the "busiest" day in Windsor's calendar, he said, describing it as "daunting".Windsor and Eton Pride's website states the event will be free but a ticket will still be required. Reading will have its own pride festival on 24 August. Plans for the town to host its second Disability Pride event in 2024 were cancelled after Reading Borough Council blamed "finance and staffing issues". You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
