Awkward announcer moments

“how about that Angelina Jolie…?”

Rick Sutcliffe was doing the color for a Rangers game on ESPN.

Erin Andrews gives this sideline report on how one of the Rangers’ pitchers switched mattresses, which resulted in better night sleeps and in the mind of this pitcher, better performances on the mound. After she reports this fascinating “news”, Sutcliffe chimes in saying something along the lines of, “Hey, Erin, how do you know so much about [so-and-so’s] bed?” and then laughs. Andrews is obviously pissed and doesn’t say anything. Throw in a few seconds of dead-time and cue the play-by-play rushing back to discuss the game.

I’d vote for drunk Sutcliffe, but I unfortunately didn’t see it.

This was from 2 years ago, I believe. They came back from commercial and were showing a reasonably decent looking young lady on her cell phone, and Hendu says, to paraphrase, “C’mon, young lady, give Hendu a call. C’monnnnnnnnnn… c’monnnnnnnn….”

One of the few times Rizzs could not formulate a canned response.

That was painful. The announcers kept asking the fans questions like “Do you like to play baseball?”, “What’s your favorite position?”, “Who is your favorite Mariner?”, etc, to which the fans would give short unimaginative responses (“Yes. Left field. Ichiro.”)

IIRC they ended this practice within a week or two.

I remember one from a few years ago, maybe 2002 or 03. One of the regular ball girls, dark hair and really pretty, made a dive for a foul ball and made the catch. Rick Rizzs says something like, “Holy Smokes, a nice catch by the ball girl!” The camera man then zooms in on her and Dave Valle follows with, “Yeah, nice smile..” and Rizzs responds with “oh” with his creepy high pitch laugh, not really knowing what to say. A brief moment of awkward silence followed.

Has had some pretty spectacular ones this season in my opinion. Trouble is, I can’t remember any. Anybody remember some of Sims’ more ludicrous statements?

was the unquestioned winner.

I forget who the announcer was, but he was saying that Rowand would probably stiffen up a little bit because he just took a “nasty shit.” Obviously he meant to say “shot,” but it was hilarious.