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Let me make it clear before I get lumped in with your apparently Neanderthal father that my issue with Melanie has absolutely nothing to do with her being a ‘chick’. She’s not good at the job and that

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Cut it out. You have no idea about his father. Calling him a "Neanderthal" based on one comment shows how judgmental and immature you are.  I find if frickn' amazing how a few of you feel yo

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6 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

No. I think some probably were hired because they used to be players or they have a connection to the local city. Some very well have been hired because they knew the right people to get an interview and then convinced the team to hired them. 

There are lots of reasons why anyone is hired. 

Newman is not close to being good enough to be a major league PBP announcer. There are probably 100 or more minor league PBP guys with a ton more experience who deserved a chance and would have been better. 

There is one thing Newman has over them. She checked a box.

Sorry if the reality of the world does not jive with what you want to believe, but that's the way things work. It happens in the real world and it happens especially in the sports world now where teams are trying to check boxes all the time to show how great they are.

Now, is Newman so bad that I need to turn off the sound on TV, no, I don't think so. But no one can convince me that if she was a guy with the way she announces, that she would have been hired. 

 

Here is the reality of the world: everyone gets hired for a multitude of reasons. Sometimes one of the reasons someone gets hired is in part because they are female. Almost no one only gets hired for one reason.

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Many many many white men get hired in part because they are white men. More than any other group gets hired because of their race/sex. Sorry that reality doesn’t jive with your world view. 

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2 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Yankees fans also have to put up with Michael Kay calling games too. 

Michael Kaye has grown on me. As he's gained in tenure and status, he's become more willing to call the game straight and criticize NYYs' play. Still nauseating how he slobbers over former players in he booth. And he doesn't do much game-to-game preparation.

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Unless of course you think that by merit somehow 90% of the best sports play by play announcers out there are white men. And they have some genetic superiority that makes them especially good at it. 

I hate when people post things that I can't respond to because of getting booted.

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