Weathers upset by Reds announcer

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MLB: Weathers upset by Reds announcer
Published 5/6/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
MLB: Weathers upset by Reds announcer You don’t need a Weathers, man To know which way the windbag blows On Sunday, as the Reds dropped their fifth straight game by a 14-7 score, David Weathers was one of the Reds on Radio listeners on WLW-AM. Weathers, who was spending his final day on the disabled list, had finished a workout and was driving home. During Jeff Brantley’s call of the game with Marty Brennaman, Weathers heard the following: “I’m not including everybody but there are some guys on this team ... if they win, great. If they lose, they could care less,” Brantley ...

More Reds Radio Bashing
Published 5/6/2008 by Craig Calcaterra at ShysterBall
A day after I call out Brennaman, the Reds other radio guy gets called out by Reds reliever David Weathers: You never know who might be listening to a ballgame on the radio. On Sunday, as the Reds dropped their fifth straight game by a 14-7 score, David Weathers was one of the Reds on Radio listeners on WLW-AM. Weathers, who was spending his final day on the disabled list, had finished a workout and was driving home. During Jeff Brantley's call of the game with Marty Brennaman, Weathers heard the following: "I'm not including everybody but there are some guys on this team ... if they win, great. If they lose, they could care less," Brantley ...

Baseball Today: Tuesday, May 6
Published 5/6/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... to hit free agency. ANNOUNCERS, THUMBS UP: The blog Basebology gives Tim McCarver a little loving "for his refusal to play along with Joe Buck's idiocy in regards to jinxes and curses during the Cubs - Cardinals game on Fox Saturday afternoon." ANNOUNCERS, THUMBS DOWN: Jeff Brantley -- who's already made a name for himself in the Reds' broadcast booth this year -- is now irritating some of the Cincinnati players with his on-air remarks. (mlb.com) STRANGE BREW: The Sporting News' ...

Reds Radio Booth Continues Making Friends
Published 5/6/2008 by Tom Fornelli at FanHouse
Filed under: Reds, NL Central, MLB Gossip, MLB Media Watch, CincinnatiMonday marked the first time that the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds met since Reds radio announcer Marty Brennaman called Cubs fans "the most obnoxious in baseball" after they threw a bunch of baseballs on the field. Marty then followed that comment up by calling Cubs fans "brain dead" a few days later. Needless to say, those comments didn't make Brennaman very popular amongst Cubs fans (though White Sox fans no doubt loved it). Well, Brennaman's partner in the radio booth, former Red Jeff Brantley, decided to one up his colleague on ...