Thom Brenneman

Awful Announcing

So I tuned in to watch last night's game as I usually do on my mlb.tv. That generally means the home team broadcasters. That also usually means a healthy dose of Cubs bashing. I can handle a little homerism from the broadcasting crew, whether it be known Cub hater Milo Hamilton or the White Sox crew. But I'm not sure I've heard such an obvious agenda to go after all things Cubs as I did last night.

The crew was Thom Brenneman and color man Chris Welsh. Ah Brenneman, that name seems familiar, doesn't it? It appears that Marty and son got together for lunch Monday and compared game notes. So with all due respect to the actual "Awful Announcing", let's take a look at some of what Brenneman and Welsh said, thanks to the beauty of archived mlb.tv games. The quotes may miss a word or two and I generally skipped over the actual play-by-play moments to shorten the bites, but I promise you this is what they actually were saying, in the spirit they intended (Contains strong language...from me).

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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full), plus three are on the 60-DAY IL

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Last updated 5-25-2023

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PITCHERS: 13
Adbert Alzolay
Javier Assad
Jeremiah Estrada
Michael Fulmer
Kyle Hendricks
* Brandon Hughes
Mark Leiter Jr
Julian Merryweather
Michael Rucker
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
Marcus Stroman
Jameson Taillon

CATCHERS: 2
* Tucker Barnhart
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
Nico Hoerner
* Miles Mastrobuoni
* Matt Mervis
Christopher Morel
* Edwin Rios
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
# Ian Happ
Trey Mancini
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman

OPTIONED: 11
Keven Alcantara, OF
Miguel Amaya, C
Ben Brown, P
Alexander Canario, OF
Brennen Davis, OF
Ryan Jensen, P
Caleb Kilian, P
Nick Madrigal, INF
Keegan Thompson, P
Nelson Velazquez, OF
Hayden Wesneski, P

10-DAY IL: 1
* Cody Bellinger, OF

15-DAY IL: 2
Brad Boxberger, P
Nick Burdi, P

60-DAY IL: 3
Codi Heuer, P
Ethan Roberts, P
Adrian Sampson, P

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