Behold One Of The Worst Home Run Calls In Baseball History. So Unbelievably Bad That The A's Deleted It From Their Main Twitter Account And Uploaded The Radio Version.
Icon Sportswire. Getty Images.Being a pro sports announcer is definitely a harder job than it appears. Things are happening so quickly that you have to correctly react in a split second otherwise you can look silly to an audience of potentially millions watching at home. Take tonight in Houston for example. Lawrence Butler went up there in the 9th inning and blasted a ball down the line. It was anyone's guess while the ball was in flight whether it'd end up fair or foul. It was up to the Athletics backup announcer Chris Caray to nail the call. How'd he do?
It's so bad that it's truly unbelievable to the human eye and ear. The shock on my face when the ball bangs off the facing of the 2nd deck in right center is like nothing I've ever experienced. I thought initially it was gonna be bad camera work, but nope just the worst judgement of a flying object in human history. To go silent right after too and just hope that no one was listening is so funny. Dallas Braden jumping in there to try and save the moment but it's way too late. Honest to god, I can't understand for the life of me how you can call that ball foul. Are they not in the building? This isn't covid times anymore, they have to be there, right? Was he piss drunk hammered in the booth? Did he have a stroke? I'm flabbergasted.
Good on him for owning it, almost wish he laughed at himself right after the call or something. But you know who is home smiling right now? The A's regular play by play announcer Jenny Cavnar who is usually taking it on the chin from fans for her own calls. Not tonight!
What's great is the Athletics initially tweeted out the call before realizing everyone quote tweeted it laughing at them. That prompted the social team to delete it from existence, only to upload the radio call a few minutes later like no one would notice.
Initially I thought they tweeted it out with replies turned off, but remembered they've been doing that for all posts since the team began moving out of the Bay Area. Only the A's, man.
P.S. This Jay Feely botched call will always make me laugh.
